Space News
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Artemis II Astronauts View SLS Core Stage at Michoud
NASA / Michael DeMocker Artemis II NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch of NASA, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen view the core stage for the SLS…
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NASA Mission Excels at Spotting Greenhouse Gas Emission Sources
5 min read NASA Mission Excels at Spotting Greenhouse Gas Emission Sources Flaring, in which excess natural gas is intentionally burned into the air, is one way methane is released…
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NASA Researcher Honored by Goddard Tech Office for Earth Science Work
Earth science researcher Dr. Antonia Gambacorta earned the 2023 Goddard IRAD Technology Leadership award for pioneering new ways to measure lower layers of Earth’s atmosphere from space. The award from…
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NASA Wallops Supports Hypersonic Rocket Launches
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported the launch of two suborbital sounding rockets on Nov. 15, 2023, for Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP), and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), in coordination…
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The Heat is On! NASA’s “Flawless” Heat Shield Demo Passes the Test
5 Min Read The Heat is On! NASA’s “Flawless” Heat Shield Demo Passes the Test The Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, spacecraft is pictured after…
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Hubble Images Galaxy with an Explosive Past
2 min read Hubble Images Galaxy with an Explosive Past A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 941. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick This image from…
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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Comm Demo Sends, Receives First Data
6 min read NASA’s Deep Space Optical Comm Demo Sends, Receives First Data NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the…
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55 Years Ago: Eight Months Before the Moon Landing
November 1968 proved pivotal to achieving the goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. The highly successful Apollo 7 mission that returned American…
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50 Years Ago: Launch of Skylab 4, The Final Mission to Skylab
The third and final crewed mission to the Skylab space station, Skylab 4, got underway on Nov. 16, 1973, with a thunderous launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in…
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Gateway Utilization Town Hall for the International Science Community
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and Gateway Program will hold a Utilization Town Hall for the international science community at 3 p.m., Jan. 31, 2024. Members of the global science community,…