Space News
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NASA Administrator Announces New Marshall Space Flight Center Director
Official portrait of Joseph Pelfrey, director, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday named Joseph Pelfrey director of the agency’s Marshall Space…
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University High School Wins Regional Science Bowl at NASA’s JPL
The 2024 National Science Bowl regional competition hosted by JPL included 21 schools, with this team from Irvine’s University High School taking first place. From left, coach David Knight, Feodor…
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NASA’s Laser Navigation Tech Enables Commercial Lunar Exploration
5 Min Read NASA’s Laser Navigation Tech Enables Commercial Lunar Exploration Navigation Doppler Lidar is a guidance system that uses laser pulses to precisely measure velocity and distance. NASA will…
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The Iconic Photos from STS-41B: Documenting the First Untethered Spacewalk
4 Min Read The Iconic Photos from STS-41B: Documenting the First Untethered Spacewalk Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, STS-41B mission specialist, reaches his maximum distance from space shuttle Challenger before returning…
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Meet the Creators, Part 3: NASA’s 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Posters
3 min read Meet the Creators, Part 3: NASA’s 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Posters A total solar eclipse is a captivating experience – evoking feelings of awe and wonder that…
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California, Massachusetts Students to Hear from NASA, ESA Astronauts
NASA astronauts and Expedition 70 Flight Engineers Jasmin Moghbeli, left, and Loral O’Hara in the Destiny laboratory celebrate the successful docking of a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International…
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NASA Sets Coverage for Axiom Mission 3 Departure from Space Station
The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft carrying the four-member Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) crew is pictured approaching the International Space Station 260 miles above China north of the Himalayas. Editor’s Note,…
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NASA Invites Public to Share in Excitement of PACE Mission Launch
NASA and SpaceX technicians safely encapsulate NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 payload fairings on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, at the Astrotech Space Operations…
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UNITE All-Nighter Delights Amateur Astronomers
2 min read UNITE All-Nighter Delights Amateur Astronomers Fadi Saibi and his daughter Sophie, age 14, pose for a photograph with their Unistellar telescope in their backyard in Sunnyvale, Calif.,…
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30 Years Ago: STS-60, the First Shuttle-Mir Mission
On Feb. 3, 1994, space shuttle Discovery took off on its 18th flight, STS-60. Its six-person crew of Commander Charles F. Bolden, Pilot Kenneth S. Reightler, and Mission Specialists N.…