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Inflatable aeroshells can pack up tightly for launch configuration, allowing NASA to land bigger payloads with the bigger aeroshell.

The Moon shines brightly enough that you can see it, day or night, as long as it’s in the right part of the sky.

NASA’s next destination in the solar system is the richly organic world of Titan.

Just thirteen minutes after the explosion, Commander Jim Lovell looked out the window to see evidence that pointed toward catastrophe.

During deep space missions, the risk of illness or exposure to contamination increases while the ground crew’s ability to care for astronauts is reduced.

The FAA regularly issues safety alerts to better prepare pilots to fly in areas where wires present a flight risk or danger.

Changes in gravity have a significant impact on an astronaut’s body and can affect spatial orientation, hand-eye coordination, locomotion, or balance.

Researchers are using social media to develop an automatic landslide detection tool.

Mission scientists are anxious to begin analyzing the salty substances found in this treacherous terrain, using instruments onboard Curiosity’s roving lab.

This modern-day prospector will search for water ice in places no light has shined before.

Today, underwater training is still the primary spacewalk training method for astronauts.

Here’s hoping Voyager continues to amaze us for decades to come as we thank Edward Stone for his decades of stellar leadership.

This innovative material conducts enough electricity to give off heat so the snow or ice that settles on concrete simply melts away.

The astronauts on the International Space Station are looking forward to a bumper crop of tasty tomatoes.

These unique training missions support design concepts for future pressurized rovers and help establish important operations protocols for the Artemis astronauts who will be carrying out missions on the Moon.

Designed and built by NASA and its fifteen partner nations, each element of the station launched to orbit one by one over a thirteen-year period via 37 space shuttle flights.

Carbon black, recovered from recycled tires, is similar to graphite, the conductor currently used in batteries.

New images taken by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe may provide another glimpse through the clouds to the Venusian surface.

Wishing all of you happy holidays, wherever they may find you.

Living aboard the International Space Station, dozens of astronauts have had the opportunity to celebrate holidays in space.