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NASA’s Artemis missions aim to establish a sustained lunar presence on and around the Moon. Communications and navigation technologies will be critical to enabling the safety, science, and operations of ...
- NASA’s Begoña Vila Awarded 2024 Galician Excellence Award
Begoña Vila, an instrument systems engineer from KBR who worked on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has been selected to receive the 2024 Galician Excellence Title in the Sciences and Medicine ...
- Sols 4236-4238: One More Time… for Contact Science at Mammoth Lakes
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- The NASA Breath Diagnostics Challenge
The NASA Breath Diagnostics challenge tasks solvers to leverage their expertise to develop a classification model that can accurately discriminate between the breath of COVID-positive and COVID-negative individuals, using existing ...
- NASA Science Activation Teams Present at National Rural STEM Summit
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NASA Science Activation Teams Present at National Rural STEM Summit
NASA Science Activation (SciAct) teams participated in the National Rural STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) Summit held June ...
- Eight CubeSats Lift Off for NASA on Firefly Aerospace Rocket!
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket leaves a glowing trail above the skies of Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 3, 2024.
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As part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch ...
- Sols 4234-4235: And That’s (Nearly) a Wrap on Mammoth Lakes!
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- The Marshall Star for July 3, 2024
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The Marshall Star for July 3, 2024
11 Marshall Team Members, 5 Teams Awarded in Space Flight Awareness Ceremony
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Sixteen individuals and groups from across ...
- Former NASA Chief Astronaut Patrick Forrester Retires
July 3, 2024
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NASA astronaut Patrick G. Forrester retired June 29, after a career spanning 31 years of service and three spaceflights. He went on ...
- Orion on the Rise
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Technicians lift NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell on June 28, 2024. The integrated spacecraft, which will be used for the Artemis II ...
- NASA Announces its Artemis II Backup Crew Member for Moon Mission
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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NASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as its backup crew member for the agency’s ...
- NASA’s Planetary Radar Tracks Two Large Asteroid Close Approaches
The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered 500-foot-wide (150-meter-wide) asteroid 2024 MK, which made its closest approach — within ...
- Fourth of July Holidays in Space
It may seem remarkable that no American spent the Fourth of July holiday in space for the first 21 years of human spaceflight. Not until 1982 and the 35th U.S. ...
- WorldHotels invites Partners to Rediscover Tawa Ravadee Resort
Bangkok, Thailand, July 3, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / Nestled in the lush rice fields and natural forests of Prachinburi province, a hidden charm of the East, Tawa Ravadee Resort brings ...
- Volunteer Crew to Exit NASA’s Simulated Mars Habitat After 378 Days
The first CHAPEA mission crew members who have been living and working inside NASA’s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission pose for a photograph taken on June 25, 2024. (Credits: ...
- NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Space Telescope Mission
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NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) mission.
The firm-fixed-price contract has a value of ...
- NASA’s ECOSTRESS Maps Burn Risk Across Phoenix Streets
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
NASA’s ECOSTRESS instrument on June 19 recorded scorching roads and sidewalks across Phoenix where contact with skin could cause serious burns ...
- Studying Hurricane Beryl from Space
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NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this image of Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean on July 1, 2024, while aboard the International Space Station, and posted it to X. The ...
- Lagniappe for July 2024
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Lagniappe for July 2024
Explore the July 2024 issue, featuring NASA Stennis Achieves Primary Success for Historic In-Space Mission, NASA at the Mississippi Comic Convention, NASA Stennis ...
- How a NASA Engineer Supports the Commercialization of Space
Chris Barnett-Woods is shown at the E-1 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where NASA Stennis accelerates the exploration and commercialization of space and ...
- Interview with Xinchuan Huang
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Let’s start with your childhood, where you were born, where you’re from, your young years, your family at the time, what your parents did, and how early it was ...
- NASA’s Boeing Test Flight Crew to Discuss Starliner Mission from Space
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts (from top) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and the Starliner ...
- What’s Up: July 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA
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The scorpion’s star clusters, and Mars reveals elusive Uranus
Follow the tail of Scorpius to locate star clusters M6 and M7, let Mars guide you to ...
- NASA Asteroid Experts Create Hypothetical Impact Scenario for Exercise
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
This artist’s concept depicts an asteroid drifting through space. Many such objects frequently pass Earth. To help prepare for the discovery ...
- NASA Shares Use Requirements with Commercial Destination Partners
NASA astronaut Mike Barratt processes brain organoid samples inside the life science glovebox for a neurodegenerative disorder study. NASA plans to use future commercial low Earth orbit destinations for the ...