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Sacrifice and Success: NASA Engineer Honors Family Roots

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA operations engineer Daniel Velasquez, left, is reviewing the Mobile…

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When will Boeing’s Starliner fly astronauts again? NASA still doesn’t know

NASA is still unsure when it will next put astronauts on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which experienced issues during its first…

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US and China will need to discuss moon mission plans, NASA chief predicts

NASA and China will need to discuss exchanges of data and mission plans as the two sides move to build…

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Perseverance rover watches a solar eclipse on Mars (photos)

On Sept. 30, NASA's Perseverance rover turned its eyes toward the sky and photographed a solar eclipse from Mars, capturing…

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Giant Cluster is Spitting Out Massive Stars

We live inside the Milky Way galaxy which is joined as it drifts through space by two satellite galaxies, the…

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Inversion secures reentry license for first mission

Inversion, a startup developing systems to return cargo from space to Earth, has received a license for its first mission…

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What is a Coral Reef?

7 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Juvenile black, white, and yellow-striped Bluehead wrasse fish dart in…

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Jiggles

Jupiter is well known for its Great Red Spot, a feature that was discovered by Galileo over 400 years ago!…

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Solar Cycle 25 is still in max phase, so more aurora-boosting sun storms could be coming

Solar Cycle 25 remains in its maximum phase, and more powerful sun storms are likely to come over the next…

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Station Science Top News: Oct. 11, 2024

Researchers verified that 3D micro-computed tomography scans can map the orientation of plant roots in space and used the method to demonstrate…

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