Space News
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Michael Thorpe Studies Sediment from Source to Sink
Name: Michael Thorpe Title: Sedimentary and Planetary Geologist Organization: Planetary Environments Laboratory, Science Directorate (Code 699) Sedimentary and planetary geologist Dr. Michael Thorpe studies sediments’ journey from mountains to downstream…
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NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps
Sometimes, stars can be stripped away from globular clusters as they orbit a massive galaxy. Researchers have identified several instances in our own Milky Way galaxy – and they’ve also…
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Webb Shows Many Early Galaxies Looked Like Pool Noodles, Surfboards
5 Min Read Webb Shows Many Early Galaxies Looked Like Pool Noodles, Surfboards Researchers are analyzing distant galaxies when the universe was only 600 million to 6 billion years old.…
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Expedition 69 Crew, Three NASA Astronauts to Share Mission Highlights
Expedition 69 Flight Engineers play chess with NASA mission controllers Credit NASA Jan. 16, 2024 RELEASE: 24-001 Four astronauts, including the current record holder for the longest single U.S. stay…
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NASA, DOD Seek Universities to Develop CubeSats for Launch
A set of NanoRacks CubeSats is photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member after the deployment by the Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (SSOD). The CubeSats program contains a variety of…
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NASA X-59 Unveiled During Rollout Ceremony
NASA and Lockheed Martin publicly unveil the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft at a ceremony in Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The X-59 is the centerpiece of…
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Science Launches to Space Station on NASA’s 20th Northrop Grumman Mission
6 Min Read Science Launches to Space Station on NASA’s 20th Northrop Grumman Mission iss067e156135 (July 28, 2022) — Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter is positioned away from the International…
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NASA Administrator Names New Head of Space Technology
Kurt Vogel portrait, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) Dr. Kurt “Spuds” Vogel will serve as the new associate…
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NASA’s IXPE Helps Researchers Maximize ‘Microquasar’ Findings
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This composite image of the Manatee Nebula captures the jet emanating from SS 433, a black hole devouring material…
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Career Journey: Cooking Up a Job as a Space Food Scientist
As the Space Food Systems manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Xulei Wu works with a team to create tasty, shelf-stable meals for astronauts aboard the International Space…