- NASA Streams First 4K Video from Aircraft to Space Station, Back
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A graphic representation of a laser communications relay between the International Space Station, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration spacecraft, and the ...
- UN Tourism and TUI Foundation Partner to Support African Artisans
UN Tourism and TUI Care Foundation have solidified their ongoing partnership by signing an agreement at the UN Tourism headquarters in Madrid. The agreement focuses on empowering artists and artisans, ...
- 45 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Enterprise Completes Launch Pad Checkout
On July 23, 1979, space shuttle Enterprise completed its time as a pathfinder vehicle at Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Workers towed it back ...
- 10 Things for Mars 10
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10 Things for Mars 10
Both Shadow and Substance: The dramatic image of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity’s shadow was taken on sol 180 (July 26, 2004), ...
- Designing Space Exploration With the Human in Mind
When designing a new spacecraft or exploration vehicle, there is intense focus on its technical performance. Do its systems perform as expected? What kind of power does it need? Will ...
- NASA Releases First Integrated Ranking of Civil Space Challenges
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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins uses a hammer to get a drive tube into the ground to collect a pristine soil sample ...
- NASA, Boeing to Discuss Crew Flight Test Mission, Ground Testing
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. This ...
- NASA Sponsors New Research on Orbital Debris, Lunar Sustainability
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NASA Sponsors New Research on Orbital Debris, Lunar Sustainability
From lunar orbit, astronauts pointed cameras out the window of their spacecraft to capture photos of the moon's ...
- Astronaut Eileen Collins, NASA’s First Female Shuttle Commander
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Astronaut Eileen Collins, STS-93 commander, looks through a checklist on the space shuttle Columbia’s middeck in this July 1999 image. Collins was the first female shuttle commander.
Collins graduated in 1979 ...
- 25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity
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25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity
By Rick Smith
“The art of aerospace engineering is a matter of seeing around corners,” said NASA ...
- Boneyard Airplane Sees New Life as a NASA X-66 Simulator
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The cockpit of an old MD-90 aircraft arrived at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, in March 2024. Parts ...
- NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch for U.S. Navy Fleet Training
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This June 2021 aerial photograph shows the coastal launch range at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Wallops is ...
- UN Tourism Sets Course for African Members
UN Tourism continues to deliver on its Agenda for Africa, bringing the region’s Members together around a focus on investments, multilateral cooperation and education.
The 67th meeting of the UN Tourism ...
- NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for NOAA’s JPSS-4 Mission
A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite captures a view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away.
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NASA, on behalf of the ...
- LIVE: NASA is with you from Oshkosh
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NASA’s Quesst Mission Panel
Monday, July 22 at 4:30 p.m. EDT
During the first NASA panel this week, NASA test ...
- NASA Rocket Discovers New Energization Process in Upper Atmosphere
A timelapse of the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) mission launching from Andøya Space Center in Andenes, Norway on Dec. 8, 2018.
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When it comes to discoveries about ...
- Chandra Sees the Peacock’s Galaxy
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is interacting with a smaller galaxy to the upper left. The smaller galaxy has likely stripped gas from NGC 6872 to feed the supermassive ...
- Seed Funding Proposals Due November 19 This Year!
Since it began in 2020, NASA’s Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP) has helped twenty-four new NASA citizen science projects get off the ground. This one-year funding opportunity aims to expand the ...
- 25 Images to Celebrate NASA’s Chandra 25th Anniversary
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its launch, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is releasing 25 never-before-seen views of a wide range of cosmic objects.
These images, which all include data from Chandra, demonstrate ...
- Ground Antenna Trio to Give NASA’s Artemis Campaign ‘LEGS’ to Stand On
New 66-foot-wide antenna dishes will be built, online, and operational in time to provide near-continuous communications services to Artemis astronauts at the Moon later this decade.
Called LEGS, short for Lunar ...
- Eileen Collins Broke Barriers as America’s First Female Space Shuttle Commander
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Eileen Collins Broke Barriers as America’s First Female Space Shuttle Commander
Astronauts Eileen M. Collins, mission commander and Jeffrey S. Ashby, pilot, peruse checklists on Columbia's middeck ...
- NASA Research Volunteers to Begin Next Simulated Mission to Mars
The latest crew chosen by NASA to venture on a simulated trip to Mars inside the agency’s Human Exploration Research Analog. From left are Sergii Iakymov, Erin Anderson, Brandon Kent, ...
- F1 in Schools Thailand Stages Announce the Upcoming National Finals
Bangkok, Thailand, July 22, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / F1 in Schools Thailand, led by Dr. Chakraphad ‘John’ Pitakthararuay, CEO & President of 1 Action Education Co., Ltd. and Kaew Chakraphad ...
- SONIC BOOM. The Autobiography of the World’s Most Travelled Man
Fred Finn, the official Guinness World Record Holder of the Most Travelled Man, takes you on a swashbuckling journey through the very history of commercial flight in his long-awaited autobiography. ...
- Southeast Asia’s Biggest Sustainable Tourism Event Reveals Top-Level Speakers
Phuket, Thailand, July 20, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / Phuket Hotels for Islands Sustaining Tourism (PHIST), Southeast Asia’s biggest sustainability event for the travel and hospitality sectors, will return to spark ...