Space News
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Tech Today: Taking Earth’s Pulse with NASA Satellites
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This natural-color image of mountains of central Pennsylvania taken by Landsat 8 shows the colors of changing leaves and…
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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope’s ‘Eyes’ Pass First Vision Test
This photo shows the entire optics system for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It consists of 10 mirrors, including the 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) primary mirror seen at the base in…
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Going Through Changes: Total Eclipse Over NASA Hangar
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Credit: NASA/Jordan Salkin This composite image shows the dazzling phases of the total solar eclipse, seen above the Flight…
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye … for Now
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, right, stands near the apex of a sand ripple in an image taken by Perseverance on Feb. 24, about five weeks after the rotorcraft’s final flight.…
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A Clinical Decision Support System for Earth-independent Medical Operations
Deep space exploration requires a paradigm shift in astronaut medical support toward Earth-independent medical operations. Currently, astronauts rely on real-time communication with ground-based medical providers. However, as the distance from…
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Space Life Science Highlights
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Spaceflight Atrophy Studied with Machine Learning Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria Found on ISS Mutating to Become Functionally Distinct On-demand Nutrient…
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BioNutrients Flight Experiments
iss068e036727 (Jan. 3, 2023) — NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann works in the International Space Station’s Harmony module on the BioNutrients-2 investigation that uses genetically engineered…
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Spaceflight Atrophy Studied with Machine Learning
ISS032-E-011701 (4 Aug. 2012) — NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer, equipped with a bungee harness, exercises on the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) in…
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Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria Found on ISS Mutating to Become Functionally Distinct
A video abstract of this International Space Station investigation is available on the publisher website (see link below). In a new scientific paper funded by an Ames Space Biology grant,…
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NASA Refines National Space Technology Development Priorities
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) As NASA focuses on exploring the Moon, Mars, and the solar system for the benefit of humanity, the agency’s…