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PHOTO OF THE DAY: Artist Shows What it Would Look Like if Apollo 13 Made it to the Moon
Apollo 13 launched on April 11, 1970, on a journey to become the third crew to land on the Moon. […]
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SPACE DISCOVERY: Data From NASA’s Cassini May Explain Saturn’s Atmospheric Mystery
The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants — Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune — are hot, just like Earth’s. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the high temperatures. […]
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NASA Remembers 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13, ‘A Successful Failure’
As NASA marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission – which has become known as “a successful failure” that saw the safe return of its crew in spite of a catastrophic explosion – the agency is sharing a variety of resources, recognizing the triumph of the mission control team and the astronauts, and looking at how those lessons learned can be applied to its lunar Artemis program. […]
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SPACE TO GROUND: Latest Happenings Aboard International Space Station
This week at the International Space Station: Just days after sending a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft filled with 4,000 lbs of science and supplies back to Earth, the orbiting laboratory welcomed three new crew members. […]
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THIS WEEK @NASA: New Crew Arrives at Space Station, Microgravity Research Returns to Earth
New crew arrives safely at the space station, valuable microgravity research returns to Earth and an update on our Commercial Crew Program. A few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! […]
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KSC Visitor Complex to Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13 Mission with Virtual Watch Party
This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission – made famous for its “successful failure” by the 1995 film named for the mission, starring Tom Hanks, Kathleen Quinlan, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise and Ed Harris. […]
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NASA Marks Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary With First-Ever #Earth Day at Home
s the world observes the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22, NASA is highlighting the agency’s many contributions to sustaining and improving our home planet’s environment with a week of online events, stories, and resources. […]
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Mars Helicopter Attached to NASA’s Perseverance Rover to Prepare For Upcoming Space Coast Launch
With the launch period of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opening in 14 weeks, final preparations of the spacecraft continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]
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NASA’s Chris Cassidy Now Aboard International Space Station, Begins 195-Day Mission
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, along with Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos joined Expedition 62 Commander Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir aboard the International Space Station when the hatches between the Soyuz spacecraft and the orbiting laboratory officially opened at 12:28 p.m. EDT. […]
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NASA Invites Video Gamers, Scientists to Embark on Virtual Ocean Research Expeditions
NASA invites video gamers and citizen scientists to embark on virtual ocean research expeditions to help map coral reefs around the world in an effort to better understand these threatened ecosystems. […]
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NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy, Two Russian Cosmonauts Launch to ISS Aboard Soyuz MS-16 Spacecraft
After a successful launch at 4:05 a.m. EDT of the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and two Russian cosmonauts safely reached orbit, beginning a four-orbit, six-hour flight to reach the International Space Station and join the Expedition 62 crew. […]
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NASA Awards Contract to Deliver Science, Tech to Moon Ahead of Human Missions
NASA has selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads – with nine science and technology instruments – to the Moon’s South Pole in 2022, to help lay the foundation for human expeditions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024. […]
