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FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2014, file photo, firemen spray water in an attempt to extinguish bush fires on a peat land in Siak Riau province, Indonesia. A new NASA satellite finds another thing to blame on El Nino: A recent record high increase of carbon dioxide in the air. The satellite details how the super-sized El Nino a couple years ago added 2.5 billion tons of carbon into the air, making the natural phenomenon the main factor in the biggest jump in heat-trapping gas levels in modern record, NASA scientists said. (AP Photo/Rony Muharrman, File)

Another El Nino problem: More carbon dioxide in air

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This image released by the European Southern Observatory on Aug. 10, 2017 shows near Earth asteroid 2012 TC4, the dot at center. The image was made from a composite of 37 individual 50-second exposures, and the background stars and galaxies appear as bright trails. NASA is using the asteroid’s close flyby to test Earth’s warning network for incoming space rocks. The asteroid will pass within about 27,000 miles (43,000 kilometers) of Antarctica early Thursday, Oct. 11, 2017. (Olivier Hainaut (ESO), Marco Micheli (ESA), Detlef Koschny (ESA)/ESO/ESA NEOCC via AP)

NASA using asteroid’s close flyby to test warning network

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NASA agrees to boost drone research in upstate New York

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Alaska Native interns with NASA, helps with Mars mission

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This July 19, 2013 image made available by NASA shows Saturn's rings and planet Earth, center right, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via AP)

The Latest: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burns up over Saturn

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This May 4, 2014, file image made available by NASA shows the persistent hexagonal cloud pattern on Saturn's north pole, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. The hexagon is similar to Earth's polar vortex, which has winds blowing in a circular pattern around the polar region, and is nearly 25,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) across. Nearly four Earths could fit inside it. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via AP)

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burns up in skies over Saturn

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This 2017 photo released by the University of Hawaii shows crew members walking around the university’s Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) on Mauna Loa volcano, Big Island, Hawaii. After eight months of living in isolation on a remote Hawaii volcano, six NASA-backed space psychology research subjects will emerge from their Mars-like habitat on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017. The participants are in a study designed to better understand the psychological impacts of a long-term manned mission to space on astronauts. NASA hopes to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. (University of Hawaii via AP)

Mars research subjects to emerge after 8 months of isolation

By CALEB JONES - Associated Press

This Sept. 6, 2015 image made available by NASA shows bright-and-dark bands in the atmosphere of Saturn, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. This image was taken in wavelengths of light that are absorbed by methane. Dark areas are regions where light travels deeper into the atmosphere, passing through more methane. The moon Dione is at right. At bottom are shadows of the planet's rings. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via AP)

Cassini spacecraft: ‘Magnifying glass’ at Saturn until end

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This July 23, 2008 image made available by NASA shows the planet Saturn, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. After a 20-year voyage, Cassini is poised to dive into Saturn on Friday, Sept. 15, 2016. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute via AP)

NASA’s Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft faces fiery finish

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In this Aug. 7, 2017 photo, Stevie Holly-Knox, a Columbia Basin College student, poses inside of The Moore Observatory at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Wash.. Holly-Knox will be transferring to University of Washington to finish her degree in astrophysics. She is one of 100 students nationwide who earned a trip to visit NASA. (Noelle Haro-Gomez/The Tri-City Herald via AP)

Washington mom promises her son the stars _and delivers

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West Virginia girl heads to national robotics competition

By JORDAN NELSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2016, file photo, Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Tulsa, speaks in Tulsa, Okla. President Donald Trump’s choice to head NASA faces a contentious Senate confirmation over his past comments dismissive of global warming as a man-made problem. Trump has Bridenstine to oversee the space agency, a job that often goes to astronauts or scientists. If confirmed, Bridenstine would be the first member of Congress to lead the agency during its nearly 60-year existence. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Trump pick to head NASA faces fight over climate comments

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In this image from video made available by NASA, departing astronaut Peggy Whitson hugs Paolo Nespoli aboard the International Space Station during preparations for a return to Earth by her, Jack Fischer and cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017. (NASA via AP)

The Latest: Space travelers are relaxing in Kazakhstan

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Correction: Trump-NASA story

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct 10, 2007 file photo, U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, center, commander of the 16th mission for the International Space Station, smiles just before the launch of the Russian Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Whitson, who was the first woman to command the station, was handed a symbolic Kazakh whip to manage the crew. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

What’s on US astronaut’s wish list after 9 months in space?

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This July 14, 2017, photo shows the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA says it may soon have the capability to send astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil for the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)

Private companies drive ‘new space race’ at NASA center

By ALEX SANZ - Associated Press

The Latest: SC plunges into total solar eclipse darkness

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Mercer Univ. team helps people experience the solar eclipse

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FILE - In this Aug. 4, 1977 photo provided by NASA, the &quot;Sounds of Earth&quot; record is mounted on the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the Safe-1 Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., prior to encapsulation in the protective shroud. Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of NASA's launch of Voyager 2, now almost 11 billion miles distant. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA, PBS marking 40 years since Voyager spacecraft launches

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In this photo taken from video provided by NASA, Atlas V rocket liftoff from from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. NASA launched the last of its longtime tracking and communication satellites on Friday, a vital link to astronauts in orbit as well as the Hubble Space Telescope. The end of the era came with a morning liftoff of TDRS-M, the 13th in the venerable Tracking and Data Relay Satellite network. It rode toward orbit aboard an unmanned Atlas V rocket. (NASA via AP)

NASA launches last of its longtime tracking satellites

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press