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2020/09/22

Ellen Ochoa Shakes Hands with First Humanoid Robot to Head to Station

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Then-NASA Johnson Space Center deputy director Ellen Ochoa poses for a photo with Robonaut 2 (R2) during media day in the Space Vehicle Moc...
2020/09/17

A New View of Jupiter's Storms

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A unique and exciting detail of Hubble’s snapshot appears at mid-northern latitudes as a bright, white, stretched-out storm traveling aroun...
2020/09/16

NASA Image Shows Fires, Hurricanes Across the U.S.

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NASA's Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of the United States on Sep. 15, 2020, showing the fires in the West, the smoke fr...
2020/09/15

Frank Rubio: From Pilot to Doctor to Astronaut

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Dr. Frank Rubio was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. He reported for duty in August 2017 and having completed t...
2020/09/14

She's Back: Kate Rubins Set to Return to Space Station

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During her first mission to space and to the International Space Station, Kate Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space. via...
2020/09/11

Hubble Stows a Pocketful of Stars

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Globular cluster NGC 1805, a tight grouping of thousands of stars is, located near the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite gala...
2020/09/10

Be a NASA Flight Director

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Not every flight director is a legend, but some are. Take Eugene Kranz, for example. via NASA https://ift.tt/33f8zxE
2020/09/09

California's Creek Fire at Night

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This NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite image from Sept. 7, 2020, shows the night band image of the Creek Fire at night as well as the smoke fro...
2020/09/08

Star Trek and NASA: 54 Years and Counting

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Star Trek debuted 54 years ago on Sept. 8, 1966. via NASA https://ift.tt/3jY79OE
2020/09/04

Completing the Roman Telescope's Primary Mirror

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror, which will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, has been compl...
2020/09/03

Booster Test for Future Space Launch System Flights

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The first solid rocket booster test for Space Launch System (SLS) missions beyond Artemis III seen here during a two-minute hot fire test, ...
2020/09/02

Mars's Twin Peaks

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NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the Red Planet on July 4, 1997. It's tiny rover, named Sojourner after abolitionist Sojour...
2020/09/01

Skylab Commander Jerry Carr Trains for His Mission

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Carr passed away on Aug. 26, 2020. “NASA and the nation have lost a pioneer of long duration spaceflight," said NASA Administrator Jim...
2020/08/31

Sunrise Shadows Over the Philippine Sea

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As the International Space Station orbited more than 200 miles above our home planet, the crew caught this glimpse of the sunrise casting l...
2020/08/28

Hubble Views Edge of Stellar Blast

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This Hubble Space Telescope image depicts a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, the result of the "death" of a star...
2020/08/27

Spitzer Captures Stellar Family Portrait

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In this large celestial mosaic taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and published in 2019, there's a lot to see, including multi...
2020/08/26

A Fermi Spirograph and Women's Equality Day

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What does this Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Spirograph have in common with Women's Equality Day? via NASA https://ift.tt/3aXrtMU
2020/08/25

Artist’s View of a Planet Where Liquid Water Might Exist

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A newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable, according to a team of astronomers...
2020/08/24

Defining Radiation Risk to Astronauts

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In this image, one of the radiation detectors for the Radi-N2 experiment floats in the space station. This device will help researchers exp...
2020/08/21

Hubble Hooks a Supernova Host Galaxy

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Galaxy NGC 2442, seen here by the Hubble Space Telescope, is nicknamed the Meathook galaxy owing to its extremely asymmetrical and irregula...
2020/08/20

Station Crew Spots Hurricane Genevieve

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Hurricane Genevieve is pictured off the Pacific coast of Mexico from the International Space Station. via NASA https://ift.tt/34hP4qr
2020/08/19

NASA Is Developing an All-Electric X-57 X-Plane: A Cleaner Way to Fly

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We're celebrating National Aviation Day! After all, we are the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Aviation and aeronautics ...
2020/08/18

Canadarm2 and Japan's HTV-9 Resupply Ship

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The versatile Canadarm2 robotic arm is poised to grapple and remove the HTV-9 resupply craft from the space station's Harmony module. v...
2020/08/17

Capturing an Avalanche on Mars

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Hi-RISE, the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this avalanche ...
2020/08/14

Astronaut Chris Cassidy Does Housekeeping in Space

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This past weekend, NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy was no exception as he collected trash for disposal during week...
2020/08/13

NASA Begins Installing Orion Adapter for First Artemis Moon Flight

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Through the Artemis program, NASA is working to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. via NASA https://ift.tt/3kGbQ0T ...
2020/08/12

Candy-Colored Phobos

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As of March 2020, our Mars Odyssey has captured these six views of the Martian moon Phobos. via NASA https://ift.tt/31K9xRR
2020/08/11

This Gas Giant Is Pretty in Pink

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If humans could travel to this giant planet, we would see a world still glowing from the heat of its formation with a color reminiscent of ...
2020/08/10

One Rehearsal Away from Touching Asteroid Bennu

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx is ready for touchdown on asteroid Bennu. via NASA https://ift.tt/31DSWyN
2020/08/07

Hubble Sees Near and Far

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The barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 4907 shows its starry face from 270 million light-years away to anyone who can see it from the Northe...
2020/08/06

A Starry Sky Above the Earth's Atmospheric Glow

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This long-exposure photograph captures a starry sky above the Earth's atmospheric glow. via NASA https://ift.tt/31nkQ20
2020/08/05

Curiosity Celebrates 8 Years on the Red Planet

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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover touched down eight years ago, on Aug. 5, 2012, and will soon be joined by a second rover, Perseverance. via...
2020/08/04

Outbursts from a Double Star System

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For decades, astronomers have known about irregular outbursts from the double star system V745 Sco, which is located about 25,000 light yea...
2020/08/03

SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour Lifted Aboard Recovery Ship

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Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft as it is lifted onto the SpaceX GO Navigator recov...

Crew Dragon Safely Returns Astronauts

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NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, left, and Douglas Hurley are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO ...
2020/08/01

SpaceX Crew Dragon As It Approached the Space Station

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Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken of NASA's Commercial Crew Program are aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon as it approaches the Interna...
2020/07/31

Liftoff to the Red Planet!

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Cana...

A Different View of the Mars Perseverance Launch

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The engines fired as a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover onboard launched from Space Launch Complex...
2020/07/30

Mars Perseverance: Prepared for Launch to the Red Planet

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard is seen illuminated by spotlights on the launch pa...
2020/07/29

Countdown to Mars

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integr...
2020/07/28

Jezero Crater, Landing Site for the Mars Perseverance Rover

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This image of Jezero Crater, the landing site for the Mars Perseverance Rover, was taken by instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance O...
2020/07/27

Carrying a Telescope Aloft

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Carried by a balloon the size of a football stadium, ASTHROS will use a telescope to observe wavelengths of light that aren't visible f...
2020/07/24

Apollo 11 Aboard the USS Hornet

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This image, taken on July 24, 1969, shows the Apollo 11 command codule and the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) are photographed aboard the...
2020/07/23

Comet NEOWISE Streaks Across the Sky Above Lone Pine Lake

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Comet NEOWISE streaked across the sky above the tree line of Lone Pine Lake, located on the Mount Whitney Trail in the Eastern Sierra Nevad...
2020/07/22

Developing Technologies to Send Humans to Mars

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NASA is developing technologies to send humans to the Red Planet. via NASA https://ift.tt/32KhEQg
2020/07/21

Apollo 11: Returning from the Moon

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On July 21, 1969, command and service module pilot Michael Collins photographed this close-up view of the docking target on the Apollo 11 L...
2020/07/16

Apollo 11 Launches into History

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At 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission launched via a Saturn V rocket on a mission to the Moon. via NASA https://ift.tt/3...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An Orbital Partnership Is Born

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On July 17, 1975, something momentous happened: two Cold War-rivals met in space. When their respective spacecraft rendezvoused and docked,...
2020/07/15

Earth's Beauty from Above

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The crew snapped this starry nighttime shot of Rio de Janeiro and surrounding cities on the Brazilian coast, as the International Space Sta...
2020/07/14

Perseverance Rover Mated to Its Atlas V Rocket

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In this image, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover waits to be lifted onto its Atlas V launch vehicle at the Cape Canaveral Air Force S...