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    Crew Awaits Space Cargo Delivery and Works Advanced Life Science

    A Progress 95 cargo craft is orbiting Earth on its way to resupply the Expedition 74 with about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies. Two cosmonauts will be on duty monitoring the Progress 95 when it automatically docks to the International Space Station rear port on the Zvezda service module at 8 p.m. EDT on Monday.

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    NASA’s Artemis Core Stage Arrives at Kennedy

    The largest rocket section for NASA’s Artemis III mission arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 27. The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage traveled 900 miles on the Pegasus barge from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where the stage is manufactured, to complete assembly of the massive rocket at NASA Kennedy.  Teams will transport the top four-fifths of the 212-foot-long core stage, the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank, liquid oxygen tank, intertank, and forward […]

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    Progress 95 Cargo Craft Counts Down to Launch on NASA+

    The unpiloted Progress 95 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 6:21 p.m. EDT (3:21 a.m. Baikonur time Sunday, April 26) on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Roscosmos spacecraft will carry about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 74 crew aboard the International Space Station.

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    Sun Releases 2 Strong Solar Flares

    On the left, an image of the Sun labeled X2.4. The Sun is against a black background. It appears as a dark gold color, with bright purple areas representing active regions. Toward the top right, there is a bright blue X with solar material. On the right side of the image, there is another Sun. This one is teal with swirls of black. On the top right, there is a bright blue and white X from the flare.

    The Sun emitted two strong solar flares, the first peaking at 9:07 p.m. ET on April 23. The second strong solar flare peaked at 4:13 a.m. ET on April 24. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured images of the events.  Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions […]

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    NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Gets Decked Out, Tested

    Technicians in cleanroom suits assemble panels of a NASA spacecraft in a brightly lit lab.

    NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft is beginning to take shape – literally – with the delivery of the panels that make up the rotorcraft lander’s body. Built from ultra‑lightweight honeycomb panels designed at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and manufactured by Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, the primary structure is specially designed for the challenges of flight on Saturn’s largest moon Titan.

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