Space News
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Collaborating with Public Innovators to Accelerate Space Exploration
8 min read Collaborating with Public Innovators to Accelerate Space Exploration NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, right…
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NASA’s Lucy Surprises Again, Observes 1st-ever Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid
4 min read NASA’s Lucy Surprises Again, Observes 1st-ever Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid It turns out there is more to the “marvelous” asteroid Dinkinesh and its newly discovered satellite than…
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Propelling NASA Closer to the Moon and Mars with Open Innovation
6 min read Propelling NASA Closer to the Moon and Mars with Open Innovation This artist’s concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. NASA is leading humanity’s return to…
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NASA Maps Minerals and Ecosystem Function in Southwest U.S. Regions
3 min read NASA Maps Minerals and Ecosystem Function in Southwest U.S. Regions NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s ER-2 aircraft can fly at high altitudes from 20,000-70,000 feet. For the…
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Euclid Spots a Spiral Galaxy
The spiral galaxy IC 342, located about 11 million light-years from Earth, lies behind the crowded plane of the Milky Way: Dust, gas, and stars obscure it from our view.…
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Worm Designer Receives NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal
4 min read Worm Designer Receives NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana, right, shakes hands with Richard Danne after awarding him the Exceptional Public Achievement Medal…
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NASA’s Worm Logo
NASA / Joel Kowsky The NASA Worm Logo sign at the NASA Headquarters building in Washington is unveiled in this image from June 21, 2023. The unveiling occurred just before…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Clocks 4,000 Days on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama using its black-and-white navigation cameras, or Navcams, at a location where it collected a sample from a rock nicknamed “Sequoia.” The panorama…
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NASA Invites Stakeholders to STMD’s LIFT-1 Industry Forum
Artist concept of an In-situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) demonstration on the Moon. Many technologies in six priority areas encompassed by NASA’s Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative will need testing, such as…
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NASA Seeks Input for Future Lunar Surface Resource Utilization Demo
Artist concept of an In-situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) demonstration on the Moon. Many technologies in six priority areas encompassed by NASA’s Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative will need testing, such as…