Space News
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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…
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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…