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Week Ends With Robotics, Exercise Research; New Crew Launches Tuesday

By |2025-04-04T10:53:00-04:00April 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Astronaut Anne McClain is pictured in the Destiny laboratory module wearing an experimental wearable dosimeter that measures radiation dosages crews are exposed to in real time aboard the International Space Station.NASA Robotics and exercise research wrapped up the week for the Expedition 72 crew aboard the International Space Station. The orbital residents also tested a [...]

Hubble Studies a Nearby Galaxy’s Star Formation

By |2025-04-04T07:00:00-04:00April 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

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Hubble Spots Stellar Sculptors in Nearby Galaxy

By |2025-04-04T04:01:00-04:00April 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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NASA Supports Wildland Fire Technology Demonstration

By |2025-04-03T16:52:00-04:00April 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Drones were a key part of testing new technology in support of a prescribed burn in Geneva State Forest, which is about 100 miles south of Montgomery, Alabama. The effort is part of the agency’s multi-year FireSense project, which is aimed at testing technologies [...]

Crew Studies Advanced Tech, Space Biology Before Next Crew Departs

By |2025-04-03T14:32:00-04:00April 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers opens the hatch to the Kibo laboratory module’s airlock aboard the International Space Station.NASA 3D printing, space navigation, and human research filled the science schedule aboard the International Space Station on Thursday. The Expedition 72 crew members are helping researchers plan missions farther away from Earth [...]

University Student Research Challenge (USRC) Awards

By |2025-04-03T13:59:00-04:00April 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

13 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Getty Images University Student Research Challenge (USRC) seeks to challenge students to propose new ideas/concepts that are relevant to NASA Aeronautics. USRC will provide students, from accredited U.S. colleges or universities, with grants for their projects and with the challenge of raising cost share [...]

Artemis II Insignia Honors All

By |2025-04-03T13:54:00-04:00April 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Robert Markowitz The four astronauts who will be the first to fly to the Moon under NASA’s Artemis campaign have designed an emblem to represent their mission that references both their distant destination and the home they will return to. The crew unveiled their patch in this April 2, 2025, photo. The crew explained the [...]

Sols 4498-4499: Flexing Our Arm Once Again

By |2025-04-03T13:45:00-04:00April 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Assigned to First Space Station Mission

By |2025-04-03T13:24:00-04:00April 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Christopher Williams poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Chris Williams will embark on his first mission to the International Space Station, serving as a flight engineer and Expedition 74 crew member. Williams will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft in November, accompanied by [...]

Rebecca Test

By |2025-04-03T13:11:00-04:00April 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This is a test article in the live site I added this image This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for [...]

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