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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”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an option to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole region. NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) will search for volatile resources, such asContinue reading “NASA Selects Blue Origin to Deliver VIPER Rover to Moon’s South Pole”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY All the pieces are stacking up – literally – for NASA’s first crewed mission of the Artemis program coming in 2026. Teams are finishing integration of the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test flight with its launch abort system on Sept. 17 inside the Launch Abort System Facility atContinue reading “NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Secures Critical Abort System Hardware for Artemis II”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In this infrared photograph taken on June 2, 2025, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) flight laser transceiver aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. At the time, when Psyche was aboutContinue reading “A Beacon to Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new details in Messier 82 (M82), home to brilliant stars whose light is shaded by sculptural clouds made of clumps and streaks of dust and gas. This image features the star-powered heart of the galaxy, located just 12 million light-years away in theContinue reading “Hubble Images Celestial Cigar’s Smoldering Heart”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips. Along the way, a partnership between NASA wind tunnel engineers, data visualization scientists, and software developers verified a quick, cost-effective solution to improve NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the upcomingContinue reading “From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II”