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  In Pictures: Houston, we have a bug - 9 famous software glitches in space

  There’s never a good time to run into software bugs, but some times are worse than others - like during a mission to space. Spacecraft of all shapes and sizes rely heavily on software to complete their objectives. But those missions can be quickly ended by the simplest of human errors when writing code. The omission of an overbar here or overflow error checking code there can mean the difference between success or failure, not to mention the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars, years of work and, on manned missions, human life. Use the arrows above to read about 9 examples that show that, despite the care with which these systems are built, bugs have occurred in spacecraft software since we started to fling rockets into space - and will, no doubt, continue to crop up.

  In Pictures: Houston, we have a bug - 9 famous software glitches in space
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  In pictures: How to protect Earth from asteroid destruction

  NASA and others are looking to protect the world from asteroid strikes

  In pictures: How to protect Earth from asteroid destruction
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  In Pictures: NASA's rover Curiosity's first year on Mars

  Images tell the story of the super rover's first year of work on Mars.

  In Pictures: NASA's rover Curiosity's first year on Mars
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  Amazing telescopes produce hot space images

  Ground-based telescopes continue to produce some of world's important space discoveries

  Amazing telescopes produce hot space images
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  Hot space projects produce cool cosmic discoveries

  Big Bang: In the past month or so there has been a plethora of wicked cool discoveries coming from NASA satellites and space-watching missions across the globe. Never-before-seen photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Mars moon Phobos, black hole formation and a new exoplanet are just a few of the amazing images. In an effort to keep up with these rapid-fire discoveries, we have gathered together 15 of the coolest images of these hot space projects.

  Hot space projects produce cool cosmic discoveries
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  10 Apollo-era technologies used today

  It's been 40 years since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched into space in Apollo 11, with the historic moon landing occurring four days later.

  10 Apollo-era technologies used today

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News about space

• Software glitch aborts SpaceX rendezvous with space station

  NASA and SpaceX will try a rendezvous and docking again on Thursday

• Computer crashed? You could blame forces beyond our solar system

  The culprit could be cosmic rays

• This top-secret plane has been in space for a year, and we don't know why

  The highly classified mission of the X-37B is unknown, so speculation is rampant

• European Space Agency wants to build village on the moon

  ESA's director general envisions a permanent moon base for astronauts from around the world to conduct scientific experiments

• NASA to test inflatable habitat for future Mars missions

  Habitat will be expanded on space station for next 2 years

• Hey, all you engineers! Want to go to Mars?

  NASA is looking for its next class of astronauts, and engineers are on its list

Features about space

• Air Force gets space telescope that can see space objects like no ground-based system before it

  The DARPA-developed Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) will this week get a new permanent home at the Air Force Space Command where it promises to rapidly ...

• 10 Apollo-era technologies used today

  The coolest technologies that the moon landing gave us -- that we still use today.