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NASA Contributes Expertise, Ingenuity to COVID-19 Fight
NASA has joined the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) with efforts underway across the country to augment the national response, a few of which were highlighted in a media briefing today. “NASA’s strength has always been our ability and passion – collective and individual – for solving problems,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “All the work being done shows how NASA…
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NASA Interns to Speak with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station
Students participating in NASA internships will have an opportunity next week to talk with a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 12:05 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 28, on NASA television and the agency’s website. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy will respond to recorded questions selected from the 520 NASA interns currently teleworking across the agency. The interns…
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NASA to Host Preview Briefings, Interviews for First Crew Launch with SpaceX
With the first mission to return human spaceflight launches to American soil now targeted to lift off May 27, NASA will highlight the historic flight with a series of news conferences Friday, May 1, that will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. In addition, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, who will serve as crew for the mission, will be…
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NASA Astronauts Meir, Morgan, Crewmate Skripochka Return from Space Station
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan returned to Earth Friday, along with Soyuz Commander Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. The trio departed the International Space Station at 9:53 p.m. EDT Thursday and made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 1:16 a.m. Friday in Kazakhstan (11:16 a.m. local time), southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan. During their first spaceflight, Morgan and…
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Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data
Editor’s note: This release has been updated to add language about how this discovery relates to the field of astrobiology. A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c,…
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NASA TV to Air Landing of NASA Astronauts Meir, Morgan, Crewmate Skripochka
NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, who has spent nine months living and working on the International Space Station, will join fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos for a scheduled return to Earth on Friday, April 17. Live coverage of their Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft’s undocking and station departure will begin at 6 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 16, on…
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Press Releases
Apollo 13 Launches for it’s ill-fated trip
At 2:23 PM, April 11th, 1970 Apollo 11 lifted off from Cape Kennedy Florida. Aside from a Second Stage engine failure during launch, the flight to this point was flawless James A. Lovell., Jack Swigert, Jr. and Fred Haise, . enroute to the NASA Transport Van on their way to Launch Pad 39-A
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NASA Looks to University Teams to Advance Aviation Technology
NASA has selected five teams led by university faculty and students to examine a range of technical areas in support of the agency’s aeronautics research goals. Known as the University Leadership Initiative (ULI), the project will provide a total of $32.8 million to the five teams during the next four years. “Each of these teams is working on important problems that definitely…
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Maine Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station
Students from Maine will have an opportunity next week to talk with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station who have special ties to the Pine Tree State. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 1:20 p.m. EDT Monday, April 13, on NASA television and the agency’s website. NASA astronauts Christopher Cassidy and Jessica Meir will respond to questions recorded by students from across the state. Cassidy,…
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NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy, Crewmates Arrive Safely at Space Station
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and two Russian cosmonauts arrived Thursday for their mission aboard the International Space Station, temporarily restoring the orbiting laboratory’s population to six people. The Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft carrying Cassidy, along with Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, docked to the station’s Poisk service module at 10:13 a.m. after a four-orbit, six-hour flight. Their Soyuz…
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