Space News
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Station Science 101: Growing Plants in Space
Thale cress plants from the Plant Habitat-03 investigation just before a harvest. NASA As NASA plans missions to the Moon and Mars, a key factor is figuring out how to…
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News Media Invited to NASA Langley’s Open House
NASA’s “Spacey Casey” welcomes visitors to NASA Langley Research Center. NASA 2 min read News Media Invited to NASA Langley’s Open House HAMPTON, Virginia – Members of the media are…
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The Space Life Sciences Training Program at Ames Research Center
Space Life Sciences Training Program An investment in tomorrow The Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) provides undergraduate students entering their junior or senior years, and entering graduate students, with…
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Station Science 101: Microbiology
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba with one of the Microbial Air Samplers, devices that monitor microbes in the air of the space station. NASA Wherever there are humans, there are microbes,…
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55 Years Ago: Nine Months Before the Moon Landing
In October 1968, the American human spaceflight program took significant steps toward achieving President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to…
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International Ocean Satellite Monitors How El Niño Is Shaping Up
The maps above show sea levels in the Pacific Ocean during early October of 1997, 2015, and 2023, in the run up to El Niño events. Higher-than-average ocean heights appear…
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NASA Employees Win Top Federal Award for Asteroid Deflection Mission
Scott Bellamy, left, and Brian Key, right, received the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals. Bellamy and Key accepted on behalf of the entire DART team during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for…
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The Start of an Eclipse
NASA / Jasmin Moghbeli While aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli took this picture of the Moon passing in front of the Sun during the annular solar eclipse…
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All Together Now: Drill Joins Other Moon Rover Science Instruments
A team of engineers from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California inspect TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain…
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NASA Conducts 1st Hot Fire of New RS-25 Certification Test Series
2 min read NASA Conducts 1st Hot Fire of New RS-25 Certification Test Series NASA conducted the first hot fire of a new RS-25 test series Oct. 17, beginning the…