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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has completed a key milestone, bringing its instruments into precise alignment and moving the observatory another step closer to science operations. “Roman requires exquisite alignment because it has to be at least ten times…
Space botany and biomedical research filled the scientific schedule aboard the International Space Station at the end of the week. Expedition 75 is also continuing to load a U.S. cargo spacecraft before its upcoming departure and return to Earth.
Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr. and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. orbited Earth from November 11 to 15, 1966, on Gemini XII, the final mission of NASA’s Gemini program. In addition to successfully completing rendezvous maneuvers and spacewalks, procedures vital…
After decades of decline, this ecologically significant type of forest is making a comeback.
Expedition 75 had a busy shift on Thursday primarily focusing on packing a U.S. cargo craft for its upcoming departure and cleaning a pair of spacesuits. Thursday’s research topics aboard the International Space Station included space agriculture and super intelligence.
For Katie Spicer, embracing opportunity and challenge has led to giant leaps during her time at NASA. Now as the NASA lander integration lead for Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 2 lander, one of the commercially provided human landing systems…
A gallery of gravitational lenses captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases the diversity of this cosmic phenomenon and lays the groundwork for follow-up observations by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
As a new exhibit opens showcasing NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour, NASA photographers look back at the final mission. These photographers documented the iconic images shared around the world on Sept. 21, 2012, while millions watched space shuttle Endeavour fly on…
