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What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
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A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching. Skywatching Highlights Transcript A solar eclipse, one of the year’s best meteor showers, Venus at its brightest in the evening sky, and…

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Efforts Continue to Stabilize LINK Spacecraft for NASA’s Swift Boost
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Teams at Katalyst Space are making progress slowing the spin of their LINK spacecraft, which is designed to boost the orbit of NASA’s Swift.

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Crew Ends Week with Spacesuit Checks and Science, Lab Hardware Maintenance
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Expedition 75 ended July stepping up preparations for the first of three spacewalks planned for the month of August. The International Space Station residents also wrapped up the week configuring combustion research and Earth imagery hardware while continuing lab maintenance.

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NASA’s Roman Telescope to Carry 1.35 Million Names to Deep Space
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On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names as part of a commemorative plaque on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The names were submitted by people globally, including astronauts…

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Summer Triangle Corner: Vega
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If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and look up during July evenings, you’ll see the brilliant star Vega shining overhead. Did you know that Vega is one of the most studied stars in our skies? As one of the brightest summer…

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Destructive Fires Char Western Europe
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Raging wildfires disrupted summer in Spain and France amid sweltering heat waves and prolonged drought.

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Students Take on Airborne Field Research with NASA
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The gusty wind didn’t make it easy to hold tight to a balloon so large. The balloon, a scientific instrument called an ozonesonde, was about to be released into the atmosphere above the Texas Gulf Coast by students from NASA’s…

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Spacewalk Preps, Bioprinting, and Exercise Research Top Station Schedule
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Expedition 75 is gearing up for a busy August with three spacewalks planned at the International Space Station. The orbital residents are also printing living cells and tissues and studying how to increase the effectiveness of exercising in space.

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