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NASA is seeking input on the creation of the NASA Open Government Plan.

All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

Boeing Saturday completed 747-8 Freighter taxi tests needed before first flight, which is scheduled for Monday.

Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 6 Feb 2010

Here are a couple first photos from Saturday's Boeing 747-8 taxi tests. More to come.

While waiting for taxi tests of the first Boeing 747-8 Freighter, we've got to see a Cathay Pacific 777 do a go around, land, takeoff and land again.

This comically animated version of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is here to introduce you to all the great new ways we'll be looking at the sun and predicting how it will affect our lives on Earth. Credit: NASA

All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

NASA launch managers this morning cleared space shuttle Endeavour to lift off before dawn Sunday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the five remaining flights before the shuttle program concludes this year or early next. The planned launch comes less than a week after the future of human spaceflight in the U.S. was shaken by President Obama, whose budget request for fiscal year 2011, released Monday, would cancel Constellation , the planned successor to the shuttle.

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