NASA achieved a major milestone April 3 for production of new RS-25 engines to help power its Artemis campaign to the moon and beyond with completion of a critical engine certification test series at NASA's Stennis Space ...
Space Exploration
Apr 5, 2024
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After nearly four years of playing catchup, Boeing is finally set to join SpaceX as one of two commercial partners capable of flying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Apr 4, 2024
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Messenger RNA became a household term when it was used as the backbone of the first COVID-19 vaccines, especially after the Nobel Prize was awarded to two mRNA pioneers at the University of Pennsylvania.
Biotechnology
Apr 3, 2024
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In the dark, early morning sky of March 21 over NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Virginia coast, a Rocket Lab Electron rocket carried a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) manifest featuring three collaborative ...
Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2024
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Massive cost overruns. Key deadlines slipping out of reach. Problems of unprecedented complexity, and a generation's worth of scientific progress contingent upon solving them.
Astronomy
Mar 28, 2024
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I recently watched NESC Deputy Director Mike Kirsch stand before a roomful of engineers at the Langley Research Center and tell them that with every passing day, NASA breaks a record: the longest stretch without a major accident ...
Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2024
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Inspired by the design of space shuttles, Penn Engineering researchers have invented a new way to synthesize a key component of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the revolutionary delivery vehicle for mRNA treatments including ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 26, 2024
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NASA's space shuttle operated in low-Earth orbit for 30 years before its retirement in 2011. However, the US space agency's replacement for this vehicle, Orion, returned to the conical capsule design familiar from the Apollo ...
Space Exploration
Feb 8, 2024
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Sierra Space's shuttle-like Dream Chaser has been put through its paces at a powerful NASA vibration facility that mimics conditions during launch and atmospheric reentry, officials said Thursday ahead of its planned first ...
Space Exploration
Feb 1, 2024
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NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted late Monday and attached to a huge external fuel tank and its two solid rocket boosters at a Los Angeles museum where it will be uniquely displayed as if it is ...
Space Exploration
Jan 30, 2024
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