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NASA Hosts Astronaut Don Pettit Prelaunch Interviews

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for limited interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission...

A ‘FURST’ of its Kind: Sounding Rocket Mission to Study Sun as a Star

By Jessica Barnett  From Earth, one might be tempted to view the Sun as a unique celestial object like no other, as it’s the...

The International Space Station’s “window to the world”

The cupola is a small module designed for the observation of operations outside the station such as robotic activities, the approach of vehicles,...

NASA to Launch 8 Scientific Balloons From New Mexico

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has kicked off its annual fall balloon campaign at the agency’s balloon launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico....

NASA Mission Concludes After Years of Successful Asteroid Detections

Engineers on NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission commanded the spacecraft to turn its transmitter off for the last time...

How NASA Citizen Science Fuels Future Exoplanet Research

6 min readHow NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Illuminate Cosmic DawnToday, enormous stretches of space are crystal clear, but that wasn’t always the...

NASA Aircraft Gathers 150 Hours of Data to Better Understand Earth

Operating internationally over several countries this summer, NASA’S C-20A aircraft completed more than 150 hours of science flights across two months in support...

This Rocks! NASA is Sending Student Science to Space

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to launch a sounding rocket carrying student-developed experiments for the RockSat-X mission on Tuesday, Aug....

Interior of Vacuum Tank at the Electric Propulsion Laboratory

Interior of the 20-foot diameter vacuum tank at the NASA Lewis Research Center’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory. The Electric Propulsion Laboratory, which began operation in...

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