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NASA Data Helps Maine Oyster Farmers Choose Where to Grow
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NASA satellites are helping Maine oyster farmers pick better sites and plan when oysters will be ready to harvest.

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Hubble Spies Stellar Blast Setting Clouds Ablaze
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This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The bright pink and green patches running diagonally through the image are HH 80/81, a pair of Herbig-Haro (HH) objects previously…

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Hubble’s Album of Planet-Forming Disks
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This collection of new images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases protoplanetary disks, the swirling masses of gas and dust that surround forming stars, in both visible and infrared wavelengths. Through observations of young stellar objects like these, Hubble…

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Returns, Splashes Down off California
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission safely splashed down early Thursday morning in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, concluding a more than five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan…

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon Splashdown at 3:41 a.m. EST
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At 3:41 a.m. EST, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov splashed down off the coast of San Diego, California.   This completes a stay in space of 167 days for the four-person crew. The mission returned to Earth earlier than originally planned as teams monitored a medical…

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SpaceX Dragon Completes Deorbit Burn
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The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov has completed its deorbit burn as expected ahead of splashdown.  Four minutes before splashdown, the drogue parachutes will deploy at about 18,000 feet in…

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Preparing for Splashdown
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Live coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel as NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, are about an hour away from splashing down aboard their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.   The deorbit burn is scheduled to begin at 2:51 a.m. EST. Splashdown remains on schedule for…

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Clouds Swimming over Lago Argentino
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A collection of fish-shaped clouds hovered above the glacial lake in Patagonia in December 2025.

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Dragon Undocks from Station, Heads for Splashdown
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At 5:20 p.m. EST, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

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Coverage, Briefing Set for NASA’s Artemis II Moon Rocket Roll to Pad
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NASA’s integrated SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission is inching closer to launch – literally. The agency is targeting no earlier than 7 a.m. EST, Saturday, Jan. 17, to begin the multi-hour trek…

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