Space News
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Celebrating the Holiday Season in Space
The Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year holidays are joyful events typically spent with family and friends. Astronauts and cosmonauts who find themselves in space during the holidays have found their…
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NASA Asteroid Sampling Mission Renamed OSIRIS-APEX for New Journey
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) At the end of a long-haul road trip, it might be time to kick up your feet and rest…
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An Apollo 8 Christmas Dinner Surprise: Turkey and Gravy Make Space History
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) On Christmas Day in 1968, the three-man Apollo 8 crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders found…
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Hubble Sights a Galaxy with ‘Forbidden’ Light
2 min read Hubble Sights a Galaxy with ‘Forbidden’ Light This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million…
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NASA Flies Drones Autonomously for Air Taxi Research
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An Alta-8 small Unmanned Aircraft System testbed vehicle flies above NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Flying beyond…
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NASA Astronauts Test SpaceX Elevator Concept for Artemis Lunar Lander
SpaceX NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Doug “Wheels” Wheelock participated in a recent test of a sub-scale mockup elevator for SpaceX’s Starship human landing system that will be used for…
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Artemis II Crew Visits White House
NASA / Bill Ingalls Artemis II crew members (from left) CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman pose for a…
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As the Arctic Warms, Its Waters Are Emitting Carbon
Sediment from Canada’s Mackenzie River empties into the Beaufort Sea in milky swirls in this 2017 satellite image. Scientists are studying how river discharge drives carbon dioxide emissions in this…
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Kennedy Space Center Looks Ahead to a Busy Year in 2024
The mobile launcher, carried by the crawler-transporter 2, rolls out from its park site location to Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in August 2023 for…
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Going the Extra 500 miles for Alaskan River Ice
2 Min Read Going the Extra 500 miles for Alaskan River Ice Fresh Eyes on Ice science team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks stop in the Alaska Native village…