Space News
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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”…
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NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Crewmates Return
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara uses a portable glovebag to replace components on a biological printer, the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), that is testing the printing of…
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NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2024
5 min read NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2024 The class of 2024 NHFP Fellows are shown in this photo montage (top to bottom, left to right): The Hubble…
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NASA Engineer Chris Lupo Receives 2024 Federal Engineer Award
Chris Lupo monitors activities on console for the Commercial Crew Program Mission Support Team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston during docking of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 to the International…