Space News
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Seed Funding Proposals Due November 19 This Year!
Since it began in 2020, NASA’s Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP) has helped twenty-four new NASA citizen science projects get off the ground. This one-year funding opportunity aims to expand the…
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25 Images to Celebrate NASA’s Chandra 25th Anniversary
NASA/SAO/CXC To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its launch, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is releasing 25 never-before-seen views of a wide range of cosmic objects. These images, which all include data from…
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Ground Antenna Trio to Give NASA’s Artemis Campaign ‘LEGS’ to Stand On
New 66-foot-wide antenna dishes will be built, online, and operational in time to provide near-continuous communications services to Artemis astronauts at the Moon later this decade. Called LEGS, short for…
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Eileen Collins Broke Barriers as America’s First Female Space Shuttle Commander
5 Min Read Eileen Collins Broke Barriers as America’s First Female Space Shuttle Commander Astronauts Eileen M. Collins, mission commander and Jeffrey S. Ashby, pilot, peruse checklists on Columbia's middeck…
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NASA Research Volunteers to Begin Next Simulated Mission to Mars
The latest crew chosen by NASA to venture on a simulated trip to Mars inside the agency’s Human Exploration Research Analog. From left are Sergii Iakymov, Erin Anderson, Brandon Kent,…
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NASA to Host Panels, Forums, and More at Oshkosh 2024
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s pavilion as it will look at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024 is seen in this illustration, Flying into the…
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Exploring the Moon: Episode Previews
2 Min Read Exploring the Moon: Episode Previews Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program Discover. Learn. Explore. NASA’s video series, Exploring the Moon, takes a “behind-the-scenes” look at humanity’s…
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I am Artemis: John Campbell
John Campbell, a logistics engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, stands on NASA’s Pegasus barge July 15. NASA How do you move NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s massive…
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NASA’s Juno Mission Captures the Colorful and Chaotic Clouds of Jupiter
Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Gary Eason © CC BY During its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the…
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Explorers on the Moon: Apollo 11 Landing
NASA On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon in the lunar module “Eagle.” Afterward, Aldrin posed for this photo, taken by Armstrong, beside…