Space News
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Media Invited to NASA’s Student Launch Challenge in Alabama
Hundreds of students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched amateur rockets near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, during the Agency’s 2023 Student Launch competition. Credit:…
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NASA Next-Generation Solar Sail Boom Technology Ready for Launch
6 Min Read NASA Next-Generation Solar Sail Boom Technology Ready for Launch An artist's concept of NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft in orbit as the Sun crests Earth's…
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NASA’s DC-8 Completes Final Mission, Set to Retire
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The DC-8 aircraft returned to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, on April 1, 2024,…
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NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara to Discuss Space Station Mission
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara is pictured inside the cupola aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA After spending six-and-a-half-months aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara will participate…
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New NASA Strategy Envisions Sustainable Future for Space Operations
Low Earth orbit, the focus of volume one of NASA’s Space Sustainability Strategy, is the most concentrated area for orbital debris. This computer-generated image showcases objects that are currently being…
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Seeing Totality
NASA/Keegan Barber On April 8, 2024, a NASA photographer captured the total solar eclipse in Dallas. A small part of North America, from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast…
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Through Astronaut Eyes, Virtual Reality Propels Gateway Forward
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Astronaut Raja Chari explores Gateway in virtual reality at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Astronauts living aboard the Gateway…
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Making Ultra-fast Electron Measurements in Multiple Directions to Reveal the Secrets of the Aurora
3 Min Read Making Ultra-fast Electron Measurements in Multiple Directions to Reveal the Secrets of the Aurora Photo of the aurora (taken in Greenland) that shows tall rays extending to…
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NASA Wallops Launches 3 Rockets During Eclipse in Virginia
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Three Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia April 8, 2024, during the…
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NASA’s Lola Fatoyinbo Receives Royal Geographical Society Prize
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) During a research trip to Fiji, Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo poses in a cluster of coastal mangroves, just one of…