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An innovative 3D printing process that advanced NASA’s approach to outfitting a lunar habitat is making buildings on Earth beautiful, efficient, and strong. Instead of building structures layer by layer, Branch Technology Inc.
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“Rise,” the Artemis II zero gravity indicator, is seen sitting on the dais as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen speak with congressional staff, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day
NASA is moving quickly to define next year’s Artemis III mission in Earth orbit, a crewed flight that will test rendezvous and docking capabilities between the agency’s Orion spacecraft and commercial landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX. Since a February announcement adding an Artemis mission ahead of crewed landing missions to the Moon’s South Pole region,
Expedition 74 astronauts aboard the International Space Station are uncovering how bacteria that causes pneumonia can lead to long-term damage in the heart. Researchers are leveraging the space environment to observe how stem cell derived heart tissues respond to bacterial infections, to discover new methods to manage cardiovascular health and infectious...
NASA’s TESS has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date
Beaver Island is one in a string of verdant and scenic jewels in a northern Lake Michigan archipelago.
Grades K-2 or Adult Naive Learner Grades 3-5 or Adult Emerging Learner Grades 6-8 or Adult Building Learner Grades 9-12 or Adult Sophisticated Learner Storyline Extensions The planets are named after stories from long ago:Our planets are named Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Seven of the planets are named after gods The...
Grades K-2 or Adult Naive Learner Grades 3-5 or Adult Emerging Learner Grades 6-8 or Adult Building Learner Grades 9-12 or Adult Sophisticated Learner The post What are the characteristics of life? appeared first on NASA Science .
About The purpose of the Astrobiology Learning Progressions is to provide cognitive, instructional, and communication support for formal and informal educators, scientists, outreach specialists, and product developers who create and conduct learning experiences and otherwise communicate about astrobiology. The content of the Astrobiology Learning...
So-called “soft skills” like good teamwork and communication can become just as valuable as technical skills to advance exploration. The post Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 173: Soft Skills for Tough Missions appeared first on NASA Science .
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon cargo spacecraft atop stands ready to launch to the International Space Station at 6:50 p.m. EDT today, weather permitting, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
How to Think about Mission Concepts: An Introduction to Concept Maturity Levels. Speaker: John Ziemer.
We study the practical implementation of zero-order-hold (ZOH) transcriptions for spacecraft trajectory optimisation, identifying a set of design principles that render them robust across a broad class of dynamical settings without problem-specific tuning. The contributions are fourfold: (i) a thorough study of the forward--backward shooting construction,...