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Science & Environment
With four commercial companies working on projects to take astronauts to the International Space Station, Nasa is free to focus on journeys further into space, this is where the MPCV or Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle comes in.
"We are committed to human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit"
The craft could be involved in missions to visit asteroids by the 2020s and Mars by the 2030s.
It will be able to take four astronauts on missions lasting up to 21 days. The MPCV is based on the uncompleted Orion spacecraft - a key part of the Constellation space programme launched by then US President George W Bush but cancelled by his successor Barack Obama because of its cost.
Space shuttle makes final landing
The Atlantis shuttle lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bringing a close to Nasa's 30-year orbiter programme.
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UK astronaut Peake to go into orbit
The UK astronaut Tim Peake is given a date to fly to the International Space Station.
Teutonic Texans
The Lone Star state is saying auf wiedersehen to its German dialect
Getting the hump
The world's largest camel herd - in Australia
Clocking out
How US version of The Office reflected on America - and UK
'It comes rumbling'
Nervous times in the Dutch quake zone
Art in the shadow of Hitler
Why Hitler’s propaganda war against modernism dominated German art
The Culture Show
Lichtenstein’s paintings imitated popular culture but do they also reveal more than we think?
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