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Are we all aliens? The asteroid sample returned by NASA holds the components of life from the world of water.
This image provided by NASA shows the top down view of the Ocillis -Rex touch and go sample mechanism (Tagsam) head, which reveals the rest of the asteroid sample inside. Credit: NASA via AP Scientists reported on Wednesday that the asteroid sample, fetched by NASA, has not only a lifelong building block, but also the salty archeological site of the…
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NASA JPL prepares for year-round launches and mission milestones
NASA JPL shows, clockwise from bottom right, the launches of CADRE (whose engineering model is shown here), Lunar Trailblazer, NISAR (shown in artist’s concept), Sentinel-6B (artist’s concept), and SPHEREx. We are making preparations. Europa Clipper’s Mars Gravity Assist (artist’s concept). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems/Lockheed Martin Space As 2024 recedes into the distance, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is already entering a busy…
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NASA Kennedy Ground Systems prepares hardware for Artemis II and beyond
A Bechtel National team uses a crane to lift Module 4 into position atop the mobile Launcher 2 tower chair on January 3, 2025, on the park grounds at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Module 4 is the first of seven modules that will be stacked vertically to form the approximately 400-foot launch tower used from the Artemis IV mission.…
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NASA to test radiation-tolerant computing solution in space
The Radiation Tolerant Computer (RadPC) payload undergoes final inspection at Montana State University in Bozeman, which is leading the payload project. RadPC is one of the next 10 NASA payloads scheduled for delivery for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative in 2025. The RadPC prototype has previously been tested on the International Space Station and Earth-orbiting satellites, and the…
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NASA hopes to discover the moon with next-generation retroreflector
The Next Generation Lunar Retroreflector (NGLR-1) is one of 10 payloads scheduled to be installed on the next shipment of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative in 2025. Equipped with retroreflectors, NGLR-1 will be delivered to the Moon. A surface that reflects very short laser pulses from the Lunar Laser Ranging Observatory on Earth. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Apollo astronauts…
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NASA spacecraft passes by the sun for closest approach in history
Illustration courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins APL shows an artist’s vision for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. NASA’s pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday by flying closer to the sun than any other spacecraft, with a heat shield exposed to scorching heat of more than 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit (930 degrees Celsius). I made it. Launched in August 2018, the spacecraft is…
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New commercial Artemis lunar probe undergoes testing at NASA
From left to right: Astrolab’s FLEX, Intuitive Machines’ Moon RACER, and Lunar Outpost’s Lunar Terrain Explorer Eagle at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford Through NASA’s Artemis campaign, astronauts will land on the moon and use a new generation of spacesuits and probes to live, work, and do science in the moon’s south polar region, expanding the reach of…
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NASA camera captures Blue Ghost lander’s interaction with the moon’s surface
Here, one of the SCALPSS cameras can be seen attached to the Blue Ghost lander. Credit: Firefly Say cheese again, Moon. Let’s take a close-up again. For the second time in less than a year, NASA technology designed to collect data about the lunar lander’s rocket plume and its interaction with the moon’s surface has been used for the benefit…
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NASA honors Algerian park with Mars namesake
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain NASA’s map of Mars now bears the names of three of Algeria’s iconic national parks, Algerian physicist Noureddine Merikechi, a member of the US space agency’s largest Mars exploration mission, told AFP. spoke. Tassili-Najjer National Park, Gouffi National Park and Giurjula National Park all found Mars’ namesake after Merikeki’s suggestion, which he called for both as…
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NASA astronauts have not said which of them fell ill after nearly eight months in space.
The SpaceX crew of the Dragon spacecraft, from left, astronaut Alexander Grebenkin, pilot Michael Barratt, commander Matthew Dominick, and mission specialist Janet Epps, on Sunday, February 25, at Kennedy Space in Cape Canaveral, Florida. After arriving at the center, we will gather for a photo. , 2024. Credit: AP Photo/John Raoux, File Three NASA astronauts whose long missions on the…
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