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NASA Grants to Engage Students in Quiet Supersonic Community Overflight

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NASA has issued new grants to five universities to help develop education plans for the community overflight phase of the agency’s Quesst mission, which aims to demonstrate the possibility of supersonic flight without the typical loud sonic booms. […]

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NASA Technology Contributes to Odysseus Soft Moon Landing, Agency Science Now Underway

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For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating on the Moon following the first successful delivery of the agency’s CLPS initiative. […]

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NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Set to Launch Aboard Starliner Spacecraft to ISS, Liftoff Targeted for Mid-April

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As part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, the agency opened media accreditation for the launch of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station. […]

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NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson to Discuss Upcoming Space Station Mission Feb. 26

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NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson will talk about her upcoming mission to the International Space Station in March at 8 a.m. EST on Monday, February 26. Dyson is scheduled to launch aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on Thursday, March 21, and will spend approximately six months aboard the space station. […]

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LAUNCHED FROM BREVARD: NASA Astronaut John Glenn Becomes First American to Orbit Earth 62 Years Ago

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Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962. The launch happened at 9:47:39 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 14, with powered flight lasting 5 minutes 1 second, and was completed normally. […]

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Views Massive Star Forming

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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is teeming with color and activity. It features a relatively close star-forming region known as IRAS 16562-3959, which lies within the Milky Way about 5,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. […]

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MARTIANS WANTED: NASA Opens Call to Applicants to Participate in Simulated Yearlong Mars Mission

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NASA is seeking applicants to participate in its next simulated one-year Mars surface mission to help inform the agency’s plans for human exploration of the Red Planet. The second of three planned ground-based missions called CHAPEA is scheduled to kick off in spring 2025. […]

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NASA Artemis Science, First Intuitive Machines Flight Launches Successfully to Moon from Kennedy Space Center

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:05 a.m. EST on February 15. […]

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NASA’s ‘ERIE’ Experiment Sheds Light on Highly Charged Moon Dust

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Researchers are studying data from a recent suborbital flight test to better understand lunar regolith or Moon dust, and it’s potentially damaging effects as NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the lunar surface under the Artemis campaign. […]

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ExplosionsUVEX Targeted to Launch in 2030, NASA’s Next Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer Mission

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As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies and stars evolve. […]

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Progress 87 Resupply Mission Set to On Soyuz Rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Feb. 14

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NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 87 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 10:25 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 14 (8:25 a.m. Baikonur time Thursday, Feb. 15), on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. […]

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NASA Names Dwight Deneal as Assistant Administrator for the Office of Small Business Programs

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday that Dwight Deneal will serve as the new assistant administrator for the Office of Small Business Programs at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, effective immediately. […]

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SPACE NEWS: NASA Welcomes Greece as the 35th Country to Sign Artemis Accords

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in a signing ceremony Friday with Greece’s foreign minister, Giorgos Gerapetritis, as his country became the 35th country to sign the Artemis Accords. […]

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SPACE HISTORY: NASA Astronaut Bruce McCandless Performs First Untethered Spacewalk in 1984

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NASA Astronaut Bruce McCandless II approaches his maximum distance from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger in this 70mm photo from Feb. 7, 1984. While testing out the nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled backpack device called the manned maneuvering unit (MMU) for the first time, McCandless’s fellow crewmembers aboard the reusable vehicle photographed him. […]

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NASA Prepares for Intuitive Machines First Moon Mission, Launch Set from KSC Feb. 14 Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket

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As part of NASA’s CLPS initiative and Artemis campaign, SpaceX is targeting no earlier than 12:57 a.m. on Wednesday, February 14, for a Falcon 9 launch of Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander to the Moon’s surface. […]

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NASA to Honor Next Generation of Artemis Astronaut Candidates During Ceremony March 5

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NASA will honor the next generation of Artemis astronaut candidates to graduate at 10:30 a.m. EST Tuesday, March 5, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After completing more than two years of basic training, these candidates will earn their wings and become eligible for spaceflight, including assignments to the International Space Station, future commercial destinations, missions to the Moon, and eventually, missions to Mars. […]

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NASA Names Joseph Pelfrey as New Director of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday named Joseph Pelfrey director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective immediately. Pelfrey has served as acting center director since July 2023. […]

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA Hubble Space Telescope Image Shows ESO 185-IG013, a Luminous Blue Compact Galaxy

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This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows ESO 185-IG013, a luminous blue compact galaxy. BCGs are nearby galaxies that show an intense burst of star formation. They are unusually blue in visible light, which sets them apart from other high-starburst galaxies that emit more infrared light. […]

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