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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Antarctica’s icy expanse to kick off the annual Antarctic Long-Duration Balloon Campaign, where two balloon flights will carry a total of nine missions to near space. Launch operations will begin mid-December from the agency’s Long Duration Balloon camp located near the U.S. NationalContinue reading “NASA Scientific Balloon Flights to Lift Off From Antarctica”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test flight returned to the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) cell following completion of the second round of vacuum chamber testing on Dec. 5 inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After returningContinue reading “Vacuum Testing Complete on Artemis II Orion Spacecraft”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Tuesday, Dec. 17, to discuss the agency science and technology flying aboard Firefly Aerospace’s first delivery to the Moon as part of the NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign.  Audio of the call will livestream onContinue reading “NASA to Discuss Firefly’s First Robotic Artemis Moon Flight”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Registration is open for digital content creators to attend the launch of NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission, and NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission. SPHEREx will provide the first all-sky spectral survey, collecting data onContinue reading “NASA Invites Social Creators for Launch of Two NASA Astrophysical Missions “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse swept across North America, from the western shores of Mexico, through the United States, and into northeastern Canada. For the eclipse, NASA helped fund numerous research projects and called upon citizen scientists in support of NASA’s goal to understand how our homeContinue reading “Scientists Share Early Results from NASA’s Solar Eclipse Experiments “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Space Technology Payload Challenge invites individuals, teams, and organizations to submit applications for systems that advance technology to address one or more of NASA’s shortfalls. These shortfalls identify technology areas where further technology development is required to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs. In addition, technologies toContinue reading “NASA TechLeap Prize: Space Technology Payload Challenge”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Synthetic Biology Project is turning to the 3D printing experts in the GrabCAD community for ideas and or designs that could lead to the ability to reuse and recycle small scale bioreactors to reduce the mass and volume requirements for deep space missions. Ideally, designs that could be printedContinue reading “3D Printable Bioreactor for Deep Space Food Production”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 We successfully arrived in our new exploration quadrangle — the Altadena quad — which is named after a town on Earth very near our own Jet Propulsion Laboratory! The names from this quad will recognize the incredible interaction between Altadena and its surroundingContinue reading “Sols 4386-4388: Powers of Ten”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon, Frost Moon, or the Winter Moon; the Moon before Yule or the Oak Moon; the Long Night Moon; the Child Moon; the Datta or Dattatreya Jayanti Festival Moon; the Karthika Deepam Festival Moon; Unduvap Poya; and the Chang’e Moon. The next fullContinue reading “The Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Dec. 8, 1994, NASA announced the selection of its 15th group of astronauts. The diverse group comprised 19 candidates – 10 pilots and nine mission specialists, and included five women, two African Americans, one Asian American, and the first Peruvian-born and Indian-born astronauts. Four international astronauts, one each fromContinue reading “30 Years Ago: NASA Selects its 15th Group of Astronauts “