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Expedition 72 Astronauts Relax as Cosmonauts Keep Up Research, Maintenance

By |2025-03-24T12:42:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi unpacks cargo stowed inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that had docked to the orbital outpost the day before wth him and fellow Crew-9 members Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers of NASA, and Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos aboard.NASA Four Expedition 72 astronauts took a well-deserved break on Monday [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Astronauts to Discuss Science Mission

By |2025-03-24T10:02:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, second from left, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague, second from right, and Suni Williams, right, are seen inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after splashing down off the coast of Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission returned from a long-duration science expedition aboard [...]

50 Years Ago: Final Saturn Rocket Rolls Out to Launch Pad 39 

By |2025-03-24T10:02:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Saturn IB rocket for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the 19th in the Saturn class stacked in the assembly building, beginning [...]

NASA’s Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado

By |2025-03-24T10:00:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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60 Years Ago: Gemini III, America’s First Two-Person Flight 

By |2025-03-23T11:31:00-04:00March 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young aboard, America’s first two-person spaceflight. Grissom earned the honor as the first person to enter space twice and Young as the first member of the second group of astronauts to fly in space. During their [...]

Ancient Ogunquit Beach on Mars

By |2025-03-23T09:09:06-04:00March 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This was once a beach -- on ancient Mars. The featured 360-degree panorama, horizontally compressed, was taken in 2017 by the robotic Curiosity rover that explored the red planet. Named Ogunquit Beach after its terrestrial counterpart, evidence shows that at times long ago the area was underwater, while at other [...]

Sols 4486-4487: Ankle-Breaking Kind of Terrain!

By |2025-03-21T21:13:00-04:00March 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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Shocking Spherules!

By |2025-03-21T20:06:00-04:00March 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [...]

CAS Discovery and Foresight

By |2025-03-21T19:16:00-04:00March 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A NASA researcher and innovation architect from the Convergent Aeronautics Solutions project Discovery team collaborating at a whiteboard during a visit to Chapel Hill, N.C. on Aug. 13, 2024.NASA / Ariella Knight Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) Discovery identifies problems worth solving for the benefit [...]

NASA to Launch Three Rockets from Alaska in Single Aurora Experiment

By |2025-03-21T14:00:00-04:00March 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read NASA to Launch Three Rockets from Alaska in Single Aurora Experiment Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Earth’s far upper atmosphere.  The experiment’s outcome could upend [...]

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