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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three new missions Wednesday to investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system. At 7:30 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the agency’s IMAP (InterstellarContinue reading “NASA, NOAA Launch Three Spacecraft to Map Sun’s Influence Across Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies competition invites collegiate teams to conceptualize innovative systems and practices that would advance current commercial aircraft maintenance, repair, and operations with the goal to enhance resilience, safety, and efficiency.   The commercial aviation industry is a crucial component of the U.S. economy, employing millionsContinue reading “NASA Launches 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 19, 2025 Curiosity is currently driving along the ridges of a very uneven terrain. One of the bigger ridges we nicknamed “Autobahn,” which is the German word for a highway. But theContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4661-4667: Peaking Into the Hollows”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidate class greets the crowd in this Sept. 22, 2025, image. The group was introduced Monday following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000 applicants from across the United States. The class now will complete nearly two years of training before becoming eligible for flight assignmentsContinue reading “NASA’s New Astronaut Candidates”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY BackgroundThe NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) has reviewed flight, ground test, and published data on ultraviolet-induced degradation of silicone based thermal control coatings. Analysis has shown, for at least one silicone coating, that bake-out plays an important role in ultraviolet (UV) degradation, indicating that UV interaction with paint volatiles,Continue reading “The Need to Bake Out Silicone Based Thermal Control Coatings”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Lettuce Find Healthy Space Food! Citizen Scientists Study Space Salads Missions to the Moon and Mars pose nutritional challenges for astronauts. Now, a new paper on space-grown food is telling us it’s time to turn over a new leaf.  Volunteers from NASA’s Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups (OSDR-AWG) Continue reading “Lettuce Find Healthy Space Food! Citizen Scientists Study Space Salads”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of the star-forming region IC 348. In this image released on July 23, 2025, X-rays from Chandra are red, green, and blue, while infrared data from Webb are pink, orange, and purple.Continue reading “IC Stars”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. NASA’s 10 new astronaut candidates were introduced Monday following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000 applicants from across the United States. The class now will complete nearly two years of training before becoming eligible for flight assignments supporting future science andContinue reading “NASA Selects All-American 2025 Class of Astronaut Candidates “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Read this press release in English here. Diez nuevos candidatos a astronauta de la NASA fueron presentados el lunes tras un competitivo proceso de selección en el que participaron más de 8.000 aspirantes de todo Estados Unidos. Ahora, la nueva clase completará casi dos años de formación antes de poder optarContinue reading “La NASA selecciona a los candidatos a astronauta de la promoción 2025, totalmente estadounidense”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University Perseverance accomplished something unusual this week: abrading two dramatically different rocks within the span of a few days. While exploring the Vernodden area along Jezero crater’s rim, the rover has been studying what might be “megablocks,” a varietyContinue reading “The Ancient Mars Variety Show”