Floating around the Earth 230 miles up, NASA Astronaut Leroy Chiao is not too far from…
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PLANET BUILDING IS BIG MESS
Planets are built over a long period of massive collisions between rocky bodies as big as…
SHUTTLE PROCESSING REPORT: S04-034
The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…
GENESIS REPORTS
As scientists begin to unpack more than 3,000 containers of samples of the sun brought to…
CUPOLA ARRIVES AT KSC
The world’s ultimate observation deck, a control tower for robotics in space, and a sunroom like…
MARS ROVERS PROBING WATER HISTORY
NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled.…
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…