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NASAIn this photo taken on Feb. 8, 1984, NASA astronaut Ronald E. McNair plays his saxophone while off-duty during the STS-41B mission. H...

Expedition 72 Flight Engineers Takuya Onishi from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers,...

A Volvo Crawler Excavator severs the airframe, separating the tail section from the fuselage, of the modified C-141 Kuiper Airborne Observat...

Crew members are kicking off operations for several biological experiments that recently launched to the International Space Station aboard...

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8 Min ReadHow to Contribute to Citizen Science with NASAA number of NASA projects use mobile phone apps to put...

What does the future of space exploration look like? At the 2025 FIRST Robotics World Championship in Houston, NASA gave student robotics te...

Landing on the Moon is not easy, particularly when a crew or spacecraft must meet exacting requirements. For Artemis missions to the lunar s...

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA’s Juno, captur...

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)Multinational corporations are using the M2M Intelligence pl...

NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov land in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in t...

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)NASA’s annual Student Launch challenge will bring middle sc...

This artist’s concept depicts a magnetar – a type of neutron star with a strong magnetic field – losing material into space. Shown as thin g...

Sometimes an unexpected turn in a carefully planned career path leads to surprising opportunities for growth and exciting new experiences. F...

The Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) for NASA’s Volatile Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission is prepar...

5 Min ReadNASA 3D Wind Measuring Laser Aims to Improve Forecasts from Air, Space...

X-ray: NASA/SAO/CXC; Optical: John Stone (Astrobin); Image Processing: NASA/SAO/CXC/L. Frattre, N. WolkThe Cygnus Loop, also known as the...

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)On April 16, 2025, the Earth Science Division at NASA’s Ame...

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)Gateway’s HALO module at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilb...

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster Messier 72 (M72).ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, G. Piotto, M. Li...

Students take a tour of the Glenn International Space Station Payload Operations Center at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, where...

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Jeremy Johnson, a research pilot and aviation safety officer, poses in front of a PC-12 aircraft inside the hangar at NASA’s Glenn Research...