NASA picks Alabama's 'Rocket City' for lunar lander job
NASA picked Alabama's "Rocket City" on Friday to lead development of the next moon lander for astronauts.
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Space samples link NASA's Apollo 11 and Mars 2020
On July 24, 1969, Apollo 11 command module Columbia splashed down in the Pacific, fulfilling President Kennedy's goal to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth. Among the mission's many firsts was the acquisition ...
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Best of both worlds: Asteroids and massive mergers
The race is on. Since the construction of technology able to detect the ripples in space and time triggered by collisions from massive objects in the universe, astronomers around the world have been searching for the bursts ...
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Image: Hubble's portrait of star's gaseous glow
Although it looks more like an entity seen through a microscope than a telescope, this rounded object, named NGC 2022, is certainly not algae or tiny, blobby jellyfish. Instead, it is a vast orb of gas in space, cast off ...
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The moon rock that turned out to be from Earth
All is not what it seems in the world of lunar samples.
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NASA selects proposals to demonstrate smallSat technologies to study interplanetary space
NASA has selected two proposals to demonstrate small satellite technologies to improve science observations in deep space, which could help NASA develop better models to predict space weather events that can affect astronauts ...
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Robotic toolkit added to NASA's Mars 2020 rover
The bit carousel—a mechanism that will play a key role in the acquisition, containment and eventual return to Earth of humanity's first samples from another planet—has been incorporated into NASA's Mars 2020 rover.
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Top NASA official gets look at next moon rocket
NASA's top official says the rocket expected to power the next mission to the moon is about 90 percent complete.
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Aug 15, 2019
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Moon glows brighter than sun in images from NASA's Fermi
If our eyes could see high-energy radiation called gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter than the Sun! That's how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has seen our neighbor in space for the past decade.
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Conceptual design ready for PLATO telescope simulator
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research designs and builds a space simulator to test and calibrate eight out of twenty-six cameras for ESA's next exoplanet hunter telescope, PLATO. The conceptual design is now complete. ...
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