After 167 days in space, the crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission will hold a news conference at 2:15 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 21, at the agency’s Johnson Space …
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Planet & Sustainability
NASA Completes Latest Scientific Balloon Campaign From Antarctica
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauNASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has completed four successful Antarctica flights during a long-duration campaign that began in early December. The balloons launched from the agency’s facility located near the U.S. National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice Shelf. The General AntiParticle Spectrometer …
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Education & Innovation
NASA Develops Blockchain Technology to Enhance Air Travel Safety and Security
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauIn an era where data security is critical to aviation safety, NASA is exploring bold new solutions. Through a drone flight test at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, …
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Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency’s Artemis II Moon rocket stands poised for the next step in its journey. Engineers are targeting …
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The number of wildland fires burning in the Arctic is on the rise, according to NASA researchers. Moreover, these blazes are burning larger, hotter, and longer than they did in …
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Just-forming stars, called protostars, dazzle a cloudy landscape in the Orion Molecular Cloud complex (OMC). These three new images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were taken as part of an effort to …
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In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific discovery. And the work to ensure that this first-of-its-kind project …
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Education & Innovation
NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauA new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars. Along for …
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Education & Innovation
Final Steps Underway for NASA’s First Crewed Artemis Moon Mission
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauAs NASA moves closer to launch of the Artemis II test flight, the agency soon will roll its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launch pad …
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Education & Innovation
NASA to Provide Media with International Space Station Update Today
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauNASA will host a live news conference at 5 p.m. EST on Thursday from the agency’s headquarters in Washington to discuss the International Space Station and its crew. On Jan. …