NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled.…
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SPACECRAFT DESIGNER DR. MAXIME A. FAGET DIES
The man who designed the original spacecraft for Project Mercury and is credited with contributing to…
SATELLITE SELF-SERVICE OPTIONS IN SPACE
NASA scientists recently successfully radioed artificial intelligence (AI) software to a satellite. They tested the software’s…
POSSIBLE ANTARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE?
While Antarctica has mostly cooled over the last 30 years, the trend is likely to rapidly…
400-YEAR OLD SUPERNOVA MYSTERY
Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, best known as the…
ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-034
As Expedition 9 nears the end of its mission, the crew aboard the International Space Station…
SHUTTLE PROCESSING REPORT: S04-033
The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…
NOAA SATELLITE MISHAP REPORT RELEASED
The NASA Mishap Board investigating damage to the NOAA-N-Prime satellite has released its final report. On…
INFRARED IMAGES MAY PROVIDE VOLCANO CLUES
NASA scientists took infrared (IR) digital images of Mount Saint Helens’ last week. The images revealed…
ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-033
The International Space Station (ISS) crew made steady progress with maintenance work this week. Expedition 9…