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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As far back as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy — then thought to be only a nebula — was headed our way. A century later, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able to measure the sideways motion of Andromeda and found it was so negligible that anContinue reading “Apocalypse When? Hubble Casts Doubt on Certainty of Galactic Collision”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Abigail Fraeman, Planetary Geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 We came in early this morning and learned that part of Tuesday’s plan didn’t execute on Mars due to a temporary issue with the arm. We collected APXS data on the targetContinue reading “Sols 4554–4555: Let’s Try That One Again…”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY President Donald Trump speaks inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission on May 30, 2020. The mission was the first crewed launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space StationContinue reading “NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Fifth Anniversary”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Tuesday, May 27, 2005 We return to planning today after a successful long weekend and about 42 meters of drive distance (about 138 feet). We planned four sols of activities on Friday to keep Curiosity busy,Continue reading “Sol 4553: Back to the Boxwork!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Athanasios Klidaras, Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University, and Megan Kennedy Wu, Senior Mission Operations Specialist at Malin Space Science Systems To celebrate her 1,500th Martian day (“Sol”) exploring the red planet, the Perseverance rover used its robotic arm to take a selfie of the rover and the surroundingContinue reading “A Dust Devil Photobombs Perseverance!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Creators of the original antigravity treadmill continue to advance technology with new company.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Nearly all of NASA’s ninth class of astronaut candidates, along with two European trainees, poses for photos in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on July 7, 1980. Group 9 was announced on May 29, 1980; the candidates would go onContinue reading “45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, particularly for future crewed missions. To support this, NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is pursuing a regular cadence of flight testingContinue reading “NASA Tests New Ways to Stick the Landing in Challenging Terrain”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Teams responsible for preparing and launching Artemis II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set to begin a series of integrated tests to get ready for the mission. With the upper stage of the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) integrated with other elements of the rocket, engineers areContinue reading “Integrated Testing on Horizon for Artemis II Launch Preparations”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY After a decade of searching, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere Volatile Evolution) mission has, for the first time, reported a direct observation of an elusive atmospheric escape process called sputtering that could help answer longstanding questions about the history of water loss on Mars. Scientists have known for a long time,Continue reading “NASA’s MAVEN Makes First Observation of Atmospheric Sputtering at Mars”