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On September 11th, 2018 with 141 comments
schwit1 shares a report from Alabama Local News: NASA's administrator Jim Bridenstine has directed the space agency to look at boosting its brand by selling...
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On September 7th, 2018 with 174 comments
NASA is challenging people in the United States to come up with an efficient method to convert carbon dioxide into glucose, a simple sugar. The atmosphere of...
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On September 5th, 2018 with 255 comments
Last week, NASA discovered a small pressure leak on the International Space Station. U.S. and Russian crew members managed to trace the leak to a 2mm breach in...
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On August 30th, 2018 with 109 comments
A small pressure leak was discovered on the International Space Station, according to NASA. From a report: Flight controllers at mission control centers in...
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On August 30th, 2018 with 128 comments
Eric Berger writes via Ars Technica: The Apollo missions that flew to the Moon during the 1960s were designed and controlled by what is now known as Johnson...
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On August 28th, 2018 with 98 comments
NASA and the University of Texas have teamed up to digitize 19,000 hours of recordings from the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first two people on the moon....
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On August 23rd, 2018 with 146 comments
Vice President Mike Pence spoke at NASA's Johnson Space Center on Thursday about the agency's plans to send humans back to the moon for the first time in...
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On August 21st, 2018 with 165 comments
For years, NASA has been debating whether to allow SpaceX to fuel its spacecraft with super-cold propellant after astronauts have boarded. While the company...
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On August 18th, 2018 with 46 comments
Two months have passed since NASA's Opportunity Mars rover last phoned home. The last time we reported on the rover was on June 12th, when it was trying to...
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On August 15th, 2018 with 119 comments
On Monday, SpaceX let reporters take a look inside its Crew Dragon capsule for the first time, as well as hear from the four astronauts: Bob Behnken, Doug...
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On August 12th, 2018 with 63 comments
NASA's Sun-chasing Parker Solar Probe successfully launched this morning at 3:31AM. A couple hours later, NASA confirmed that the vessel was healthy. The...
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On August 11th, 2018 with 35 comments
In the early hours of Saturday morning, NASA is scheduled to launch the Parker Solar Probe for a seven-year mission to study the sun and its atmosphere. The...
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On August 9th, 2018 with 96 comments
In T-minus three days, NASA will launch a car-sized spacecraft to investigate our Sun's scorching hot atmosphere. "The vehicle is the Parker Solar Probe, and...
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On August 4th, 2018 with 29 comments
Kepler, which has discovered about 70 percent of the 3,800 known exoplanets to date, woke up from a four-week hibernation yesterday and has begun beaming data...
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On August 3rd, 2018 with 54 comments
NASA on Friday announced the crews of the first flights from U.S. soil since the space shuttle retired in 2011, an elite group of astronauts that the agency...
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On July 31st, 2018 with 160 comments
Zorro quotes a report from The Daily Beast: After years of planning, NASA is finally launching a new effort to send astronauts back to the moon and then...
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On July 20th, 2018 with 52 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Inside a sealed clean room near Toulouse, France, Maurice Sylvestre points out something called SuperCam. Sylvestre is...
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On July 19th, 2018 with 139 comments
ffkom shares an excerpt from a press release via the European Southern Observatory: ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new...
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On July 19th, 2018 with 97 comments
schwit1 shares a report from Behind The Black: At a science workshop in Europe this week, Chinese space officials made it clear that they found the concept of...
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On July 12th, 2018 with 70 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Over 40 years ago, a NASA mission may have accidentally destroyed what would have been the first discovery of organic...
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On July 11th, 2018 with 32 comments
Plans to launch the first NASA astronauts since 2011 to the International Space Station from the United States look set to be delayed due to incomplete safety...
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On July 8th, 2018 with 27 comments
We don't yet know if there's life on other worlds, however likely that is, but NASA's Kepler Mission satellite has helped pinpoint the abundance of planets...
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On July 7th, 2018 with 82 comments
This week NASA's Dawn space probe swooped within 22 miles of the surface of Ceres, the dwarf planet that's the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars...
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On July 4th, 2018 with 85 comments
NASA announced it will publicly demonstrate a quiet supersonic aircraft near the coastal resort city of Galveston, Texas, to ensure that its prototype really...
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On June 27th, 2018 with 108 comments
In a blow to NASA's prestige and its budget, America's next great space telescope has been postponed again. From a report: NASA announced on Wednesday that the...
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On June 26th, 2018 with 155 comments
In the last decade, we have discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system and have learned that rocky, temperate worlds are numerous in our galaxy....
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On June 23rd, 2018 with 92 comments
An anonymous reader quotes Qz:
NASA is not going to be able to find all the asteroids big enough to cause serious devastation on Earth by 2020 -- or even 2033....
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On June 18th, 2018 with 88 comments
The United States wants to send robotic explorers to the moon as soon as next year as a preparatory step toward sending astronauts back there for the first...
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On June 17th, 2018 with 49 comments
An anonymous reader quotes UPI:
After nearly four decades with NASA, including 22 years as an astronaut, Peggy Whitson is leaving the space agency. Her...
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On June 12th, 2018 with 105 comments
According to NASA, the Mars Opportunity rover is currently trying to survive an intensifying dust storm on the red planet. "The storm's atmospheric opacity --...
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