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Watch NASA’s next-generation lunar Gateway space station build up in concept video
Like a celestial Lego set, a new NASA video shows parts of a lunar station coming together. Gateway, a space station which will support the Artemis human missions to the moon, will require several assembly missions, shown in detail in a new YouTube video (opens in new tab) from the NASA Johnson Space Center. The new moon-orbiting station will host crews only occasionally, making it distinct from the International Space Station (ISS) that has hosted crews continuously since 2000. But both stations share the capability of rapid assembly by astronauts…
Read MoreCalifornia, Indiana Students to Hear from Astronauts on Space Station
Students from California and Indiana, along with staff members at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, will have the opportunity this week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Read MoreNASA Announces New CubeSat Launch Initiative Partnership Opportunities
NASA has announced a new round of opportunities through the agency’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) for CubeSat developers, including educational institutions, to conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations in space and contribute to the agency’s exploration goals.
Read MoreMoon Mosaic
This Moon-mosaic is comprised of 1,231 images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (LRO) Narrow-Angle Camera (NAC) in the summer of 2018.
Read MoreFood in space: What do astronauts eat?
The first meal astronauts eat before venturing into space is traditionally a breakfast of steak and eggs. It’s one of NASA’s many food traditions, but for this particular breakfast at least, there was science behind the menu choice. Steak and eggs washed down with orange juice, and notably, tea was served to the first American in space, Alan Shepard, on May 5, 1961, before his launch in Freedom 7. According to the NASA archive (opens in new tab), no coffee was allowed 24 hours before the flight, as it might…
Read MoreOn This Day In Space: Aug. 8, 1977: Salyut 5 space station burns up in the atmosphere
On Aug. 8, 1977, the Salyut 5 space station fell out of space and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. Salyut 5 was a Soviet space station and part of the highly-secretive Almaz military space station program. It launched in 1976 and housed two crew of cosmonauts as they conducted military experiments and other scientific research in orbit. A diagram of a Salyut 5 space station. (Image credit: NASA) Related stories: Originally, four crewed missions were supposed to go to Salyut 5. However, the third crew was unable to dock…
Read MoreCurious Kids: Is it possible to see what is happening in distant solar systems now?
(Image credit: Tithi Luadthong/Shutterstock) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. https://www.space.com/topics/expert-voices If a distant solar system is millions of light years away and so we see it as it was millions of years ago, how can we see what it looks like now? Parul, aged 13, Sri Ganganagar, India What is the meaning of “now” and how does our “now” relate to the “now” somewhere else? Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light: 300,000 kilometres per second. This…
Read MoreChina mulls using lunar satellites to probe the cosmic dark ages
Chinese scientists want to use the moon to help get an unprecedented look at the early, dark days of our universe. The team behind the Discovering the Sky at the Longest Wavelengths (DSL) mission, also known as Hongmeng, want to send 10 satellites into orbit around the moon to pick up faint cosmic signals, using our celestial neighbor to block electromagnetic interference from human activity on Earth. The aim is to gain a glimpse at the so-called cosmic dark ages—a mysterious era before the first stars began to shine—by collecting…
Read MoreNew Indian rocket hits a snag on debut launch
India’s new rocket launched for the first time on Saturday night (Aug. 6), and it’s still too early to tell whether or not it earned its wings. The 112-foot-tall (34 meters) Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India’s southeastern coast on Saturday at 11:48 p.m. EDT (0348 GMT and 9:18 a.m. India Standard Time on Sunday, Aug. 7) with two satellites onboard. The rocket’s three solid-fueled stages performed well, but its fourth and final stage, a liquid-fueled “velocity trimming module” (VTM), apparently hit…
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