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13 Sep 2024 19:22

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training" At first glance, it seems like a scene from an excursion on the Moon’s surface…except the people are in hiking gear, not spacesuits. [September 13, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-uses-iceland-terrain-for-lunar-training/

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13 Sep 2024 06:31

#NewImage from #Nasa: "Aurora Australis and the International Space Station" This snapshot from the International Space Station was taken on August 11 while orbiting about 430 kilometers above the Indian Ocean, Southern Hemisphere, planet Earth. The spectacular view looks south and east, down toward the planet's horizon and through red and green curtains of aurora australis. The auroral glow is caused by emission from excited oxygen atoms in the extremely rarefied upper atmosphere still present at the level of the orbiting outpost. Green emission from atomic oxygen dominates this scene at altitudes of 100 to 250 kilometers, while red emission from atomic oxygen can extend as high as 500 kilometers altitude. Beyond the glow of these southern lights, this view from low Earth orbit reveals the starry sky from a southern hemisphere perspective. Stars in Orion's belt and the Orion Nebula are near the Earth's limb just left of center. Sirius, alpha star of Canis Major and brightest star in planet Earth's night is above center along the right edge of the southern orbital skyscape. [September 13, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2409/iss071e564695_1024.jpg

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12 Sep 2024 21:16

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Testing Europa Clipper’s Solar Arrays" On Aug. 21, 2024, engineers and technicians deployed and tested NASA

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12 Sep 2024 19:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Printed Engines Propel the Next Industrial Revolution" Efforts to 3D print engines produce significant savings in rocketry and beyond [September 12, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/technology/tech-transfer-spinoffs/printed-engines-propel-the-next-industrial-revolution/

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12 Sep 2024 17:16

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives " NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) following a policy directive from the White House in April. [September 12, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasa-to-develop-lunar-time-standard-for-exploration-initiatives/

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12 Sep 2024 06:36

#NewImage from #Nasa: "Young Star Cluster NGC 1333" This spectacular mosaic of images from the James Webb Space Telescope peers into the heart of young star cluster NGC 1333. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation Perseus, the nearby star cluster lies at the edge of the large Perseus molecular cloud. Part of Webb's deep exploration of the region to identify low mass brown dwarf stars and free floating planets, the space telescope's combined field of view spans nearly 2 light-years across the dusty cluster's turbulent stellar nursery. In fact, NGC 1333 is known to harbor stars less than a million years old, though most are hidden from optical telescopes by the pervasive stardust. The chaotic environment may be similar to one in which our own Sun formed over 4.5 billion years ago. [September 12, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2409/NGC1333Webb1024.jpg

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11 Sep 2024 22:16

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Arrive at Space Station" NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its number of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover period. After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically docked to the orbiting laboratory’s Rassvet module at 3:32 [

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11 Sep 2024 21:47

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA to Preview Europa Clipper Mission to Jupiter Moon" NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to discuss the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The briefing will be open to media and will air live on NASA and the agency’s website, plus Facebook, X, and [

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11 Sep 2024 20:46

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Chile Flowers Bloom in Space" In July 2021, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station started growing chile peppers in the Advanced Plant Habitat, as part of the Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04) experiment. The astronauts and a team of researchers at Kennedy worked together to monitor the peppers’ growth before harvesting them. In this image from Sept. 30, 2021, chile flowers [

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11 Sep 2024 19:16

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "The Next Full Moon is a Partial Lunar Eclipse; a Supermoon; the Corn Moon; and the Harvest Moon" The next full Moon will be Tuesday, September 17, 2024, at 10:35 PM EDT. The Moon will appear full from Monday evening through Thursday morning. [September 11, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/the-next-full-moon-is-a-partial-lunar-eclipse-a-supermoon-the-corn-moon-and-the-harvest-moon/

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11 Sep 2024 18:17

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "9 Phenomena NASA Astronauts Will Encounter at Moon’s South Pole" Out-of-this-world phenomena NASA astronauts will experience at the Moon’s south polar region. [September 11, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/phenomena-nasa-astronauts-will-encounter-at-moons-south-pole/

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11 Sep 2024 18:17

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Inspiration Among the Stars: How Johnson’s Workforce Found Their Place in Space" For some people, working for NASA is a lifelong dream. For others, it is an interesting and perhaps unexpected opportunity that comes up at just the right time and place. Everything from family ties and influential teachers to witnessing human spaceflight history and enjoying sci-fi entertainment has helped bring people of all backgrounds together at [

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11 Sep 2024 14:47

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Gateway Space Station in 3D" Immerse yourself in the future of deep space science exploration and download a 3D model of Gateway. Click, drag, and explore the exterior of the lunar space station from multiple angles. International teams of astronauts will use Gateway, humanity

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11 Sep 2024 02:16

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Margin’ up the Crater Rim!" To conclude its exploration of the mysterious margin unit before it ascends the rim of Jezero Crater, Perseverance made one last stop this past week to investigate these strange rocks at “Eremita Mesa.” Since beginning its steep drive up the crater rim, Perseverance has been traversing along the edge of the margin unit (the margin […] [September 10, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/margin-up-the-crater-rim/

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10 Sep 2024 22:55

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "A Starry View" NGC 1333 is a nearby star-forming region in the Perseus constellation. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope surveyed a large portion of NGC 1333, identifying planetary objects using the observatory’s Near-InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph. [September 10, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/53951942710-9389759151-o.png

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13 Sep 2024 13:22

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Hubble Examines a Spiral Star Factory" This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668. It is relatively near to us at 90 million light-years from Earth and quite accessible for astronomers to study with both space- and ground-based telescopes. At first glance, it doesn’t seem like a remarkable galaxy. It is around […] [September 13, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-examines-a-spiral-star-factory/

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12 Sep 2024 21:50

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Testing Europa Clipper's Solar Arrays" NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The photo was taken as engineers and technicians deployed and tested the spacecraft's giant solar arrays, each of which measures about 46.5 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13.5 feet (4.1 meters) high. [September 12, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pia26066orig.jpg

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12 Sep 2024 20:16

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Conduct Space Station Research" NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are headed to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission in September. Once on station, these crew members will support scientific investigations that include studies of blood clotting, effects of moisture on plants grown in space, and vision changes in astronauts. Here are [

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12 Sep 2024 17:16

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Moon to Mars Architecture Art Challenge" NASA wants you to visualize the future of space exploration! This art challenge is looking for creative, artistic images to represent NASA

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12 Sep 2024 16:18

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy" Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center. (For comparison, Earth is approximately 26,000 light-years from the center.) A team of scientists used Webb’s NIRCam […] [September 12, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-peers-into-the-extreme-outer-galaxy/

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11 Sep 2024 23:17

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "The Marshall Star for September 11, 2024" Starship Super Heavy Breezes Through Wind Tunnel Testing NASA and its industry partners continue to make progress toward Artemis III and beyond, the first crewed lunar landing missions under the agency’s Artemis campaign. SpaceX, the commercial

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11 Sep 2024 21:49

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Chile Flowers Bloom in Space" Chile pepper plants growing in the Advanced Plant Habitat aboard the International Space Station bore fruit in the late summer and fall of 2021. Overcoming the challenges of growing fruit in microgravity is important to NASA for long-duration missions during which crew members will need good sources of Vitamin C to supplement their diets. [September 11, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/iss065e434047orig.jpg

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11 Sep 2024 21:47

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Finds Summer 2024 Hottest to Date" The agency also shared new state-of-the-art datasets that allow scientists to track Earth’s temperature for any month and region going back to 1880 with greater certainty. August 2024 set a new monthly temperature record, capping Earth’s hottest summer since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) [

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11 Sep 2024 20:46

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Air Traffic Management – eXploration (ATM-X) Description" As the aviation industry evolves, new air vehicles and operators are entering the airspace. NASA is working to ensure these new diverse set of operations can be safely integrated into the current airspace. The agency is researching how traditional and emerging aircraft operations can efficiently operate in a shared airspace. NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXploration (ATM-X) project [

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11 Sep 2024 18:46

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Remembers Sept. 11" The attacks of Sept.

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11 Sep 2024 18:17

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Scientists Re-Create Mars ‘Spiders’ in a Lab for First Time" Tests on Earth appear to confirm how the Red Planet’s spider-shaped geologic formations are carved by carbon dioxide. Since discovering them in 2003 via images from orbiters, scientists have marveled at spider-like shapes sprawled across the southern hemisphere of Mars. No one is entirely sure how these geologic features are created. Each branched formation can [

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11 Sep 2024 15:46

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Stennis Set to Continue ASTRA Mission with Sidus Space" NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, announced Wednesday it will continue its historic in-space autonomous systems payload mission aboard an orbiting satellite through a follow-on agreement with Sidus Space, Inc. “We are excited to report the historic ASTRA (Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications) mission will continue,” said Chris Carmichael, chief, Stennis [

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11 Sep 2024 06:51

#NewImage from #Nasa: "" A natural border between Slovakia and Poland is the Tatra Mountains. A prominent destination for astrophotographers, the Tatras are the highest mountain range in the Carpathians. In the featured image taken in May, one can see the center of our Milky Waygalaxy with two of its famous stellar nurseries, the Lagoon and Omega Nebula, just over the top of the Tatras. Stellar nurseries are full of ionized hydrogen, a fundamental component for the formation of Earth-abundant water. As a fundamental ingredient in all known forms of life, water is a crucial element in the Universe. Such water can be seen in the foreground in the form of the Bialka River. [September 11, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2409/NightTatra_Rosadzinski_960.jpg

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10 Sep 2024 23:17

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Astronaut Frank Culbertson Letter from September 11, 2001" Editor

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10 Sep 2024 22:47

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Starship Super Heavy Breezes Through Wind Tunnel Testing at NASA Ames" NASA and its industry partners continue to make progress toward Artemis III and beyond, the first crewed lunar landing missions under the agency’s Artemis campaign. SpaceX, the commercial Human Landing System (HLS) provider for Artemis III and Artemis IV, recently tested a 1.2% scale model of the Super Heavy rocket, or booster, in the transonic [