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Greenbelt -- NASA says its Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite measured last week's heavy rainfall that drenched the U.S. east coast.

Pasadena -- NASA says it failed to free its stuck Mars explorer Spirit on the first attempt.

Washington -- NASA has given the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum two key instruments from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Pasadena, Calif. -- NASA and the Microsoft Corp. say they've created the "Be a Martian" Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars.

Cape Canaveral -- Space shuttle Atlantis roared into space Monday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, en route to deliver spare parts to the International Space Station.

Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis is on schedule to launch Monday from Florida, NASA officials said after a pre-launch briefing Saturday in Florida.

Sunnyvale -- Scientists have found frozen water on the moon and significant amounts of it, NASA said Friday.

Pasadena, Calif. -- NASA scientists say they plan to begin transmitting commands to the Mars exploration rover Spirit in an attempt to free the robot from martian sand.

Cape Canaveral -- The six astronauts who will be aboard space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-129 mission began their pre-launch activities at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday.

Vandenberg-- Engineers have started cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite to be launched next month in California.