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Crew Returns from Simulated Trip to Mars—Take a Peek Inside Their Journey

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An all-volunteer crew on a simulated trip to Mars “returned” to Earth on Sept. 23, 2024, after being isolated in…

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On a stark, barren landscape of dark grey rocks and dust, a smiling person dressed in rain gear and warm layers holds a clipboard under her arm.

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training

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At first glance, it seems like a scene from an excursion on the Moon’s surface…except the people are in hiking…

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Seven people, with large backpacks, hiking down a hill of lumpy snow dusted with beige volcanic ash. Behind them is a steep wall of dirt with streaks of fresh green shrubbery. The people appear tiny against the landscape and are all in the left half of the image. On the right are overlapping views of three distinct geological formations: a light-colored slope in the foreground, a tan and orange river gorge in the middle ground, and snow-capped mountains in the background, under a partly cloudy sky.

Into The Field With NASA: Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes

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To better understand Mars, NASA's Goddard Instrument Field Team hiked deep into the backcountry of Katmai National Park.

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NASA Research Volunteers to Begin Next Simulated Mission to Mars

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NASA selected a new team of four research volunteers to participate in a simulated mission to Mars within HERA (Human…

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Voyagers of Mars: The First CHAPEA Crew’s Yearlong Journey 

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When the first humans travel to the Red Planet, they will need to know how to repair and maintain equipment,…

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First Mars Crew Completes Yearlong Simulated Red Planet NASA Mission

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The inaugural CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) crew is “back on Earth” after walking out of their simulated…

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Many flame images are shown side by side. Initially, the flame is seen as yellow and sooty. As the ambient pressure is reduced, the flame becomes bluer and continues to shrink until fully extinguished.

Amendment 57: ROSES-24 Changes for 2 CFR 200 Update

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble's eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. This image is a composite of Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 data taken on December 17, 2010, with three separate filters that allow a broad range of wavelengths covering the ultraviolet, blue, and red portions of the spectrum.

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