Alan Shepard became the first American to fly in space on May 5, 1961. Although NASA engineers had put considerable planning into his mission, dubbed Freedom 7, noticeably missing from this extensive preparation was a way ...
Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2013
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NASA engineers successfully carried out a key developmental test firing of an RS-25 rocket engine along with its modernized 'brain' controller at the Stennis Space Center on Thursday, Aug. 18, as part of the ongoing huge ...
Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2016
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Snorkels in space? NASA dreamed up the idea as a quick fix to a dangerous spacesuit problem so astronauts can step out to repair an equipment breakdown at the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2013
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Looking to the future, NASA is investigating several technologies that will allow it to accomplish some bold objectives. This includes returning to the moon, creating the infrastructure that will let us stay there, sending ...
Space Exploration
Jan 2, 2024
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Principal Investigator George Ricker likes to call it the "Goldilocks orbit"—it's not too close to Earth and her Moon, and it's not too far. In fact, it's just right.
Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2013
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The moon is incredibly hot, and also incredibly cold.
Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2022
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There will be some very interesting passengers on the final mission of the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis scheduled to launch July 8, 2011: thousands of bacteria.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 24, 2011
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(Phys.org)—A new analysis of topographic and gravity data from Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons, indicates that Titan's icy outer crust is twice as thick as has generally been thought.
Space Exploration
Dec 4, 2012
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When you do a simple Web search on a topic, the results that pop up aren't the whole story. The Internet contains a vast trove of information—sometimes called the "Deep Web"—that isn't indexed by search engines: information ...
Computer Sciences
May 25, 2015
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A fire and explosion in a rocket engine are being blamed for a botched commercial space station shipment last October.
Space Exploration
Oct 30, 2015
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