Space News
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Starship Super Heavy Breezes Through Wind Tunnel Testing at NASA Ames
A 1.2% scale model of the Super Heavy rocket that will launch the Starship human landing system to the Moon for future crewed Artemis missions was recently tested at NASA’s…
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A Starry View
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. Jayawardhana NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has infrared vision that lets us peer through the dusty veil of nearby…
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Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap
5 min read Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap A model of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. The twin Voyagers have been flying since 1977 and are exploring the outer regions…
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Childhood Snow Days Transformed Linette Boisvert into a Sea Ice Scientist
Linette Boisvert turned a childhood love of snow into a career as a sea ice scientist studying climate change. Name: Linette BoisvertTitle: Assistant Lab Chief, Cryospheric Sciences Branch, and Deputy Project Scientist…
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15 Years Ago: Japan launches HTV-1, its First Resupply Mission to the Space Station
On Sept. 10, 2009, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched its first cargo delivery spacecraft, the H-II Transfer Vehicle-1 (HTV-1), to the International Space Station. The HTV cargo vehicles,…
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Sols 4300-4301: Rippled Pages
Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars…
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30 Years Ago: STS-64 Astronauts Test a Spacewalk Rescue Aid
On Sept. 9, 1994, space shuttle Discovery took to the skies on its 19th trip into space. During their 11-day mission, the STS-64 crew of Commander Richard “Dick” N. Richards,…
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Kyle Helson Finds EXCITE-ment in Exoplanet Exploration
Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA’s EXCITE mission. As a scientist at Goddard, Helson helped make this balloon-based telescope a reality: EXCITE…
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NASA JPL Scientists, Engineers Collaborate With Artists for Exhibition
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist David Bowen works on “tele-present wind,” featuring grass stalks that move in response to Martian wind data previously…
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NASA Astronauts to Discuss Mission from Space Station
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare orbital hardware for installation inside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Media are invited to hear from NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and…