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    Bright Moonlight Could Interfere with View of Perseids’ Peak

    By Jessica Barnett The Perseids remain one of the best meteor showers each year, but stargazers will have to deal with another bright object in the sky obscuring their view as the shower reaches its max in 2025. A waning gibbous Moon will brighten the skies as it rises on the nights of Aug. 12 […]

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    International Partnership Powers IMAP Mission Through Collaboration

    The heliosphere, the magnetic bubble inflated by the solar wind protecting our solar system, holds clues to understanding how life on Earth is possible. Unlocking these mysteries has global implications, making international collaboration both invaluable and essential. NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, launching no earlier than September 2025, embraces this global perspective […]

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    NASA Wallops Flight Facility Rocket to Carry University Student Experiments

    A sounding rocket carrying experiments developed by eight student teams is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Tuesday, Aug. 12, for the RockSat-X mission. The Terrier-Improved Malemute rocket is expected to reach an altitude of about 100 miles (162 kilometers) before descending by parachute into the Atlantic Ocean to be recovered. […]

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    Crew-10 Proceeds Toward Undocking No Earlier Than Friday, Aug. 8

    NASA and SpaceX are proceeding toward return of the agency’s Crew-10 mission from the International Space Station. Mission teams are targeting undocking no earlier than 6:05 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 8. For this undocking opportunity, splashdown is targeted at approximately 11:33 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 9, off the coast of California. 

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    NASA, SpaceX Stand Down on Crew-10 Undocking

    NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Thursday undocking opportunity of the Crew-10 mission from the International Space Station due to high winds forecasted for the splashdown locations off the coast of California.  Pending weather reviews, NASA and SpaceX now are targeting undocking no earlier than 6:05 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 8. For this […]

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    Dragon Crews Relax Ahead of Upcoming Crew-10 Departure

    Eight of 11 Expedition 73 crew members on the International Space Station enjoyed a light schedule on Wednesday following four busy days of departure and arrival activities for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 and Crew-11 missions. The other three orbital residents studied how the human body adapts to weightlessness, photographed crew operations, and maintained lab systems throughout the day.

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    US-German Water Satellites Show Continental Dry Spots Are Getting Drier

    A cow stands next to a dried pond.

    Several regions around the world are seeing marked declines in water availability, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances on July 25. The study, partially funded by NASA, found that dry areas are increasing by about twice the size of California each year. Researchers identified the trend using data collected from 2002 […]

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