Space News
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NASA, Boeing to Discuss Crew Flight Test Mission, Ground Testing
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. This…
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NASA Sponsors New Research on Orbital Debris, Lunar Sustainability
3 Min Read NASA Sponsors New Research on Orbital Debris, Lunar Sustainability From lunar orbit, astronauts pointed cameras out the window of their spacecraft to capture photos of the moon's…
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Astronaut Eileen Collins, NASA’s First Female Shuttle Commander
NASA Astronaut Eileen Collins, STS-93 commander, looks through a checklist on the space shuttle Columbia’s middeck in this July 1999 image. Collins was the first female shuttle commander. Collins graduated…
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25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity
5 Min Read 25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity By Rick Smith “The art of aerospace engineering is a matter of seeing around corners,” said NASA…
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Boneyard Airplane Sees New Life as a NASA X-66 Simulator
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The cockpit of an old MD-90 aircraft arrived at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, in March…
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NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch for U.S. Navy Fleet Training
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This June 2021 aerial photograph shows the coastal launch range at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.…
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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for NOAA’s JPSS-4 Mission
A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite captures a view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. Credit: NASA NASA, on behalf…
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LIVE: NASA is with you from Oshkosh
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA / Maria Werries NASA’s Quesst Mission Panel Monday, July 22 at 4:30 p.m. EDT During the first NASA…
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NASA Rocket Discovers New Energization Process in Upper Atmosphere
A timelapse of the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) mission launching from Andøya Space Center in Andenes, Norway on Dec. 8, 2018. NASA/Jamie Adkins When it comes to…
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Chandra Sees the Peacock’s Galaxy
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is interacting with a smaller galaxy to the upper left. The smaller galaxy has likely stripped gas from NGC 6872 to feed the supermassive…