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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize Hispanic astronauts who have flown in space. The table below lists these individuals of various nationalities who have made significant contributions to their space programs. The first Hispanic astronauts completed short flights to a Soviet space station and aboard the space shuttle.Continue reading “NASA Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2024”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 7:05 a.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 13, for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to undock from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, the earliest splashdown time is targeted for 3:38 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, at one of the multiple zones available offContinue reading “NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-8 Return, Splashdown”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this timelapse photo of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) International Space Station as it orbited 272 miles above the South Pacific Ocean southeast of New Zealand just before sunrise on Sept. 28, 2024. At the time, the comet was about 44 million miles away from Earth.Continue reading “Ancient Comet Makes Appearance”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured images of the second-brightest comet to ever pass through its field of view, comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Prioritizing health is important on Earth, and it’s even more important in space. Exploring beyond the Earth’s surface exposes humans to conditions that can impact blood pressure, bone density, immune health, and much more. With this in mind, two NASA inventors joined forces 20 years ago to create a wayContinue reading “Pioneering NASA Astronaut Health Tech Thwarts Heart Failure”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A valve designed for NASA rover landings enables effective stage separations for commercial spaceflight

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY “My mom had to leave school after 9th grade to support her family, but she always emphasized the importance of education. And with a lot of sacrifices, got us an encyclopedia in Spanish, ‘Enciclopedia de Las Ciencias’. By getting that encyclopedia for us, without knowing it, my mom was myContinue reading “Program Executive Dr. Yaítza Luna-Cruz”

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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The sparkling scene depicted in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is of the spiral galaxy NGC 5248, located 42 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Boötes. It is also known as Caldwell 45. The Caldwell catalog holds visually interesting celestial objects that are not as commonly observed byContinue reading “Hubble Spots a Grand Spiral of Starbursts”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA invites the public to virtually sail along with the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System‘s space journey using NASA’s “Eyes on the Solar System” visualization tool, a digital model of the solar system. This simulation shows the real-time positions of the planets, moons, and spacecraft – including NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System.Continue reading “Sail Along with NASA’s Solar Sail Tech Demo in Real-Time Simulation”