Space News
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NASA Collects First Surface Science in Decades via Commercial Moon Mission
For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA was able to collect data from new science instruments and technology demonstrations on the Moon. The data comes from the…
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Women’s History Month: Celebrating Women Astronauts 2024
“A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.” – Valentina Tereshkova “If we want scientists and engineers…
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Can Volcanic Super Eruptions Lead to Major Cooling? Study Suggests No
Some 74,000 years ago, the Toba volcano in Indonesia exploded with a force 1,000 times more powerful than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. The mystery is what happened…
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IPEx Autonomy Testing
A photo taken from the ISRU Pilot Excavator as it is tested in a blacked out facility with minimal lighting that mimics the harsh, feature-less terrain of the Moon. NASA…
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Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil
ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of…
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NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement Mission: 10 years, 10 stories
An extra-tropical cyclone seen in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan on March 10, 2014, by NASA’s GPM Microwave Imager. Credit: NASA From peering into hurricanes to tracking…
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Night-Shining Cloud Mission Ends; Yields High Science Results for NASA
5 min read Night-Shining Cloud Mission Ends; Yields High Science Results for NASA NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission, seen in this visualization, contributed to NASA’s understanding…
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NASA Ames Astrogram – January/February 2024
Astrogram banner Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed by Rachel Hoover TRIDENT, designed and developed by engineers at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, is the…
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NASA Selects ACMI as Second Approved Exploration Park Facility
NASA NASA and the American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation (ACMI) signed an agreement Thursday, Feb. 29 to lease underutilized land in a 240-acre Exploration Park at the agency’s Johnson…
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Langley Celebrates Black History Month: Clayton Turner
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Clayton P. Turner serves as the Director of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. His career at NASA…