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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Millions of people across North America will experience a rare celestial sight on Monday, April 8: a total solar eclipse. NASA will host a media briefing with other government agencies at 10 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 26, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The briefing will air live on NASA+, NASAContinue reading “NASA, Agencies to Brief Plans for April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY From the search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system to Earth science missions closer to home, NASA shared its goals for the next decades of exploration at this year’s Goddard Space Science Symposium, held March 20-22, 2024, at the University of Maryland in College Park.  “We wanted to helpContinue reading “NASA Innovation on Display at AAS Goddard Space Science Symposium “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media are invited to apply for accreditation to attend a pre-launch media day to learn about a sounding rocket mission set to launch from Virginia’s Eastern Shore during the 2024 solar eclipse. The April 2 media day event includes opportunities to hear from subject matter experts, tour the facility, andContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to Eclipse Mission Sounding Rocket Media Day “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is sending several biological and physical sciences experiments and equipment aboard SpaceX’s 30th commercial resupply services mission. Studying biological and physical phenomena under extreme conditions allows researchers to advance the fundamental scientific knowledge required to go farther and stay longer in space, while also benefitting life on Earth. NotContinue reading “International Space Station welcomes biological and physical science experiments”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the gauzy-looking celestial body UGC 5829, an irregular galaxy that lies about 30 million light-years away. Despite the lack of observations of this relatively faint galaxy, UGC 5829 has a distinct and descriptive name: the Spider Galaxy. Perhaps its distorted galacticContinue reading “Hubble Spots the Spider Galaxy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On March 24, 1979, space shuttle Columbia arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for the very first time. Following Presidential direction to build the space shuttle in 1972, Congress quickly approved and funded the program later that year. Construction of the first orbital vehicle, later named Columbia, began inContinue reading “45 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Columbia Arrives at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station. The spacecraft travels aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission, which lifted off at 4:55 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape CanaveralContinue reading “NASA’s Tiny BurstCube Mission Launches to Study Cosmic Blasts”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and technology demonstrations for the agency are on the way to the International Space Station, including studies of technologies to measure sea ice and plant growth in space. SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft, carrying more than 6,000Continue reading “NASA Science, Hardware Aboard SpaceX’s 30th Resupply Launch to Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A test version of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s payload adapter is ready for evaluation, marking a critical milestone on the journey to the hardware’s debut on NASA’s Artemis IV mission. Comprised of two metal rings and eight composite panels, the cone-shaped payload adapter will be part of theContinue reading “Payload Adapter Testing: A Key Step for Artemis IV Rocket’s Success”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Everyday physical activities keep the cardiovascular system healthy. The human cardiovascular system, which includes the heart and blood vessels, has evolved to operate in Earth’s gravity. When astronauts travel to space, their bodies begin to adjust to the microgravity of their spacecraft. Blood and other bodily fluids previously pulled downwardContinue reading “Station Science 101: Cardiovascular Research on Station”