Space News
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Rock Sampled by NASA’s Perseverance Embodies Why Rover Came to Mars
The 21st rock core captured by NASA’s Perseverance has a composition that would make it good at trapping and preserving signs of microbial life, if any was once present. The…
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How NASA Spotted El Niño Changing the Saltiness of Coastal Waters
Rivers can flush rainwater over hundreds of miles to the sea, changing the makeup of coastal waters in ways that scientists are still discovering. In this satellite image from December…
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NASA Invites Media to Annual FIRST Robotics Competition in Rocket City
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Students from the Power Struck Girls Team 5965 – an all-girls FIRST Robotics team from the Academy of Our…
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65 Years Ago: NASA Selects America’s First Astronauts
On Nov. 5, 1958, NASA, newly established to lead America’s civilian space program, formally established the Space Task Group (STG) at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to implement…
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NASA Aeronautics Monthly STEM Newsletter
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) 2024 NASA Aeronautics Monthly STEM Newsletter: Issue 35 NASA Aeronautics Monthly STEM Newsletter: Issue 34 Aeronautics STEM Facebook logo…
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A Home for Astronauts around the Moon
Northrop Grumman/Thales Alenia Space The Gateway space station’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) module, one of two of Gateway’s habitation elements where astronauts will live, conduct science, and prepare for…
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Veronica T. Pinnick Put NASA’s PACE Mission through Its Paces
To achieve the impossible, Veronica T. Pinnick, who put NASA’s PACE mission through its prelaunch paces, says you need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Name: Dr. Veronica T. Pinnick…
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NASA Partnerships Bring 2024 Total Solar Eclipse to Everyone
Solar eclipse NASA Eclipses are an important contribution to NASA’s research into the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, and the part of Earth’s atmosphere where space weather happens. They’re also…
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That Starry Night Sky? It’s Full of Eclipses
5 min read That Starry Night Sky? It’s Full of Eclipses An artist’s concept shows the TRAPPIST-1 planets as they might be seen from Earth using an extremely powerful –…
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Scientists Use NASA Data to Predict Solar Corona Before Eclipse
4 min read Scientists Use NASA Data to Predict Solar Corona Before Eclipse Our Sun, like many stars, is adorned with a crown. It’s called a corona (Latin for “crown”…