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Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula Takes Flight in New Image From NASA’s IXPE

About 10,000 years ago, a giant star exploded in the constellation Vela, leaving behind a dense object called a pulsar that appears to brighten regularly as it spins, like a cosmic lighthouse.

Astronaut Strength, Conditioning and Rehabilitation

Building Physical Resiliency in Astronauts The Astronaut Strength, Conditioning and Rehabilitation (ASCR) group is comprised of certified strength and conditioning professionals, certified/licensed athletic trainers, and physical therapists. Their mission is to optimize the performance, durability, and sustainability of the Astronaut…

ISS Flight Crew Integration

Human engineering support is critical to human spaceflight and to the International Space Station (ISS) Program Office. The ISS Flight Crew Integration (FCI) team is one of the HH&P ISS Systems and is comprised of the Human Factors Implementation Team…

Nitrogen Dioxide in the Neighborhood

A team of scientists mapped nitrogen dioxide in California’s air at the neighborhood scale and found hotspots of the air pollutant near high-rise buildings and food processing facilities.

Sol 3763: Martian Déjà Vu

We had another later start to planning today, and again are planning only a single sol. In a lot of ways, the plan is similar to yestersol’s.

55 Years Ago: The First Mobile Quarantine Facility Arrives in Houston

On March 6, 1968, in preparation for the first Apollo Moon landing, the first Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) arrived at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), now NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, for testing and evaluation.

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Breathing under Pressure

In preparation for high-altitude flight tests of NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59, NASA and Lockheed Martin personnel recently underwent pressure breathing training in San Antonio, Texas. NASA’s X-59 research aircraft is designed to reduce sonic booms to gentle thumps. As an experimental…

Research Flies to the Space Station on SpaceX CRS-27

NASA’s 27th SpaceX commercial resupply services (CRS) mission is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in March. The scientific experiments and technology demonstrations carried by the uncrewed Dragon spacecraft examine…

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NASA Invites Media to 60th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium

Media are invited to meet leaders in the space community during the 60th annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium, taking place at the Kossiakoff Center on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, from…

New Horizons Team Adds AI Smarts to Its Kuiper Belt Object Search

By early 1930, Lowell Observatory junior astronomer Clyde Tombaugh had spent months poring over hundreds of telescopic photo plates in the search for a single moving object – which would turn out to be Pluto, the ninth planet.

NASA’s Curiosity Views First ‘Sun Rays’ on Mars

The veteran rover captured a dazzling sunset at the start of a new cloud-imaging campaign.

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Take the Next Giant Leap With NASA and Minecraft

Editor’s note: This web article was updated Oct. 23, 2024, to reflect an update in the Minecraft Artemis Missions game. Kids worldwide unleash their creativity every day as they build and explore their own blocky worlds within the Minecraft universe.…

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NASA Interns Help Identify Aviation Solutions to Health Care Challenges

A group of NASA interns recently made significant contributions to finding unique ways to apply NASA’s expertise to a complex real-world problem – enabling access to healthcare as distance to care increases. The interns, all with multidisciplinary academic backgrounds, worked…