Aerospace
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Analyzing the Abundance of Boulders on the Planet Mercury
Photos of boulders on Mercury were taken by the American automatic interplanetary space probe MESSENGER. Credit: NASA Scientists received new…
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Innovative Diffractive Solar Sail Funded by NASA Could Take Science to Exciting New Destinations
Diffractive solar sails, depicted in this conceptual illustration, could enable missions to hard-to-reach places, like orbits over the Sun’s poles.…
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NASA To Welcome Japanese Astronaut Aboard the Lunar Gateway Outpost
Illustration showing a close-up of the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), one of the elements of Gateway. Credit: NASA President…
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NASA Turns to Private Sector for New Spacesuits for Exploring the Surface of the Moon
An artist’s illustration of two suited crew members working on the lunar surface. The one in the foreground lifts a…
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This Week @NASA: Webb’s First Images, Next-Gen Spacesuits, and Lunar-Roving Robot
An important target date for the James Webb Space Telescope … An update about the next generation of spacesuits ….…
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This Week @NASA: Artemis I Mega Rocket, Europa Clipper Spacecraft, VIPER Moon Rover
This week at NASA includes news on Artemis I mega Moon rocket, SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts, Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source…
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“It’s Spectacular” – First Analysis of Rocks Plucked From Speeding Asteroid
Left: A photograph of the rocks retrieved by Hayabusa2 from the asteroid Ryugu. Right: a zoomed-in image of the structure…
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Observes Asteroid Bennu’s Boulder “Body Armor”
Asteroid Bennu’s remarkable terrain. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface gives it protection against small meteoroid…
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New Life: NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Science Operations
NASA’s InSight Mars lander uses a seismometer to study the inner layers of Mars. Seismic signals from quakes change as…
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NASA Introduces 2022 Class of Flight Directors – Meet the 7 New Additions to the Team
Overall view of the space station flight control room in the Johnson Space Center’s Mission Control Center as flight controllers…
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