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With a saddened heart, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced the passing of fellow astronaut Thomas Stafford. Stafford was among the second group of astronauts to participate in Projects Gemini and Apollo, and piloted the first rendezvous in space aboard Gemini VI.
Stafford, perhaps best known for his pioneering...
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While the Super Bowl provided fans with a tantalizing overtime win for the Chiefs, two astronauts onboard ISS showed off their own football skills. The space agency also shared just how much of its technology is at play during the big game, as well as some interesting facts in football terms.
NASA astronauts were...
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Astronauts seeking a healthy diet of leafy green vegetables while in space may be in for a bit of bad news. Researchers have found that lettuce and other plants grown in space are more susceptible to bacterial infections, such as salmonella.
NASA and other space agencies have been attempting to grow different types...
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A mystery involving missing tomatoes onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been solved. The yearlong tomato conundrum began after NASA astronaut Frank Rubio lost track of two tomatoes grown in space while harvesting for the eXposed Root On-Orbit Test System (XROOTS).
According to NASA, the XROOTS...
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The first Arab astronaut to complete a spacewalk shares how honey forms in space and the internet is finding it to be absolutely delicious content. Sultan Al Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates shared the experience of eating honey on his X (formerly known as Twitter) account while onboard the International Space...
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Experience Earth through the eyes of astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) in a new virtual reality (VR) movie for the Meta Quest, titled Blue Marble Orbit 1. The breathtaking footage is part of the Emmy award-winning Space Explorer series and is part of a new trilogy for Meta Quest 2 and Quest...
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NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) are set to announce the four astronauts who will partake in the Artemis II mission that will send the crew and spacecraft around the moon and back to Earth. Artemis II is the forerunner to the first humans to return to the surface of the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission in...
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NASA and its international partners began installing a new space botany experiment last week that will help astronauts to learn how to grow fresh food on the International Space Station for several years. The first veggie of choice will be the dwarf tomato, with astronauts testing various fertilizer techniques...
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An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) took an incredible of image of a lightning strike while over Southeast Asia, and the Moon took the opportunity to photo bomb the picture. The image was captured last year by an unnamed member of the Expedition 66 crew.
Astronauts aboard the ISS no doubt see...
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NASA believes it may be on the bubble of creating a bigger and better space telescope. The bigger the telescope, the more light it collects, and the farther astronomers are able to gaze into the vastness of space.
As the world patiently awaits the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to cool down enough to become...
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A first-of-its-kind brain helmet is headed to the International Space Station to analyze and record neurological activity in microgravity. Brain.space will conduct the experiment using its proprietary EEG-enabled headset and be operated by the astronauts of Axiom-1 (AX-1).
As NASA and others continue to work toward...
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A Russian cosmonaut and a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shared photos of Mount Etna from space, as plumes of ash and smoke from the active volcano rose toward the heavens. The images were shared by the pair on their respective Twitter accounts.
As the...
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Imagine being 254 miles above Earth aboard the International Space Station and minding your own business when, all of a sudden, a gorilla emerges from a soft storage container and gives chase in zero gravity. Okay, there is some gravity inside the ISS, but let's not overlook the fact that a NASA astronaut hilariously...
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When the US and Russia first launched the International Space Station, it was a partnership that boosted ties between the two nations. Now, as US-Russia relations slide, it’s the astronauts who suffer. Despite the importance NASA sees in the partnership with Russia, the future of that collaboration is in serious...
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Scientists are sending human muscle cells into outer space in order to try and find ways to combat muscle loss as you get older. As people are surviving longer, the effects muscle loss have on our aging population becomes more important.
Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are required to workout 90...
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NASA has made the decision to delay a spacewalk that was scheduled for today, November 30 due to space debris. Astronauts were set to swap out a communications antenna on the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron were originally tasked for the spacewalk to replace a...
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Your next business trip may be in space. NASA recently announced that it will be opening up the International Space Station (ISS) to private astronauts. NASA also plans to allow more commercial manufacturing and production on the ISS.
Private astronauts will soon be able to stay on the ISS for up to thirty days...
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Oh, boy. Now we've gone and done it. Yes, we've taken the Internet where it has never gone before, and we guess the only logical "next step" is to plant a wireless router on Mars and let the extraterrestrial that live there start tweeting to us. Believe it or not, the World Wide Web is now completely inaccurate in...
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