NASA
- Formed: July 29, 1958
- Location: Kennedy Space Center
- Related: Space Force
- Status: Active
Latest NASA News
Russia Bailing On The ISS
Six weeks after NASA announced that it would be cutting ties with Russia, except for their collaboration on the ISS, …
NASA Reveals Crowdsourced Spacesuit Design Winner
It’s astounding to me that more big decisions aren’t solved by crowdsourcing opinions. I mean, it doesn’t always work so …
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NASA Recruits R2-D2 To Help Send Star Wars Day Message
Today’s news cycle may have been dominated by the official announcement of Star Wars: Episode VII’s cast, but I’d hate …
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NASA Builds Inflatable Saucers And Giant Parachutes For Mars Landings
The Opportunity and Curiosity rovers are triumphs for NASA, but why should the space agency rest on its laurels? Even …
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Crowdfunding Mission Seeks To Resurrect ISEE-3 Space Probe
A long time ago (1978) in a galaxy…well, pretty close to us, NASA launched the ISEE-3 (International Sun/Earth Explorer 3) …
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NASA To Test Einstein’s Twin Paradox On Actual Twins
NASA’s latest experiment is something straight out of a sci-fi horror movie. Mostly because it involves identical twins—apologies to any …
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SpaceX Sends Microbes And A Space Farm To The ISS
UPDATE: A helium leak nixed plans for today’s launch. It has tentatively been rescheduled for 12:25PM PT/3:25 PM ET on …
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You Can Vote For NASA’s New Spacesuit Design
Dava Newman is still working on a futuristic, 3D-printed spacesuit, but in the meantime, NASA has developed a few other …
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Urgent Launch Of Air Force Satellites Delays NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Flight Test
NASA’s next manned spacecraft — its first new model in 40 years — is called the Orion, or “Apollo on …
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NASA Tips Their Hat To Cosmos With A Gorgeous Space Gallery
While Cosmos may not have lived up to Fox’s ratings expectations, it was still a humbling primer on our vast, …
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SpaceX To Launch Missions for the U.S. Military
SpaceX seems to be taking the world—make that the universe—by storm. The private contractor hauls cargo to the ISS, and …
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Gravity Gets Congratulations From ISS And Lookalike Imagery From NASA
This past Sunday saw the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences giving sciencey fiction its just rewards by granting …
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NASA Starts Planning Robotic Mission To Europa
One of my favorite films, Rob Reiner’s Stand by Me is partly a cautionary tale about what happens when curiosity …
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NASA Finds 715 New Exoplanets Beneath The Universe’s Couch Cushions
Much like an over-the-hill cinematic boxer, everyone had pretty much given up on the Kepler Telescope once its instruments started …
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MythBusters’ Adam Savage Shows Off His Gorgeous Mercury Spacesuit Replica
Adam Savage’s life is just frankly unfair. It’s bad enough that he gets paid to blow things up, put Hollywood’s …
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Our Moon May Not Be Able To Have Its Own Mini-Moon, But A Meteorite Recently Exploded On The Lunar Surface
When you realize that planets like Saturn have 60 moons, and Jupiter has 63, you have to wonder whether moons …
ESA’s Cosmic Vision Includes New Planet-Hunting Mission
NASA likes to boast about its planet-hunting capabilities thanks to both the Kepler and the Hubble telescopes. But NASA’s not …
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Dying Stars Slosh Around When They Go Supernova
As Carl Sagan always said, “We’re made of star-stuff.” That’s because dying stars explode, expelling stardust — which scientists now …
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ISS Cold Atom Lab Will Be The Most Frigid Place In The Universe
The ISS has its share of haters. There are many people who believe the station is a colossal waste of …
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Opportunity Rover Solves Rock Mystery
A few weeks ago, the Opportunity Rover’s cameras picked up a mystery rock on Mars. The rock, which was compared …
There Might Be Water Flowing On Mars Right Now
Earlier in the Curiosity Rover‘s travels around the Red Planet it gleaned a bunch of information about the water-soaked soil, …
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NASA Program Aims To Put Commercial Landers On The Moon, Stirs Property Rights Debate
NASA recently announced a new initiative called Lunar CATALYST (Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown) and is seeking proposals …
Meet Dream Chaser, America’s Next Space Shuttle
As you probably know, President Obama announced his decision to end NASA’s space shuttle program Constellation back in 2010. Since …
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Why You Have NASA To Thank For The Super Bowl
In a few hours, an absurd number of people will watch the spectacle that is the Super Bowl. And they’ll …
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Happy Tenth Anniversary, Opportunity
Ten years might not seem old, but for a rover that was only meant to conduct a three-month-long mission, a …
Mystery Rock Appears On Mars
Meteorite? Rover antics? Elvis? All of these theories are on the table when it comes to the mysterious rock that …
NASA’s Only A Year Away From Pluto
Pluto may not be a full-fledged planet anymore, but that doesn’t mean we’re not interested in checking it out, even …
ISS Gets A Four-Year Extension
I’m not sure if you knew that the International Space Station had a pre-planned death date. Maybe that’s being melodramatic. …
Apollo 13 Disaster Unfolds In Real Time In These Archival Videos
There’s a very good chance you’re familiar with the nearly tragic events surrounding NASA’s famed Apollo 13 mission, and a …
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Russia Plans To Send Probe To Ganymede
Jupiter is set to give Mars and Saturn a run for their money when it comes to being the most …
