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British pilot will train with NASA to spend more than a year in a Mars simulation

NASA begins its second Mars trial in Houston, where four volunteers will live for a year in a printed habitat called the CHAPEA program.

Almost Everything About NASA’s Latest Mission to Mars Is Unusual

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...
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Learning to fly: how Reentry simulates NASA’s most daring missions

You’ll be flipping dozens of them just to power up the guidance computer or initiate reentry procedures. In almost every game ...
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An engineer who lived in NASA's Mars simulation for 378 days went through extreme isolation — but still said he'd go to the red planet for real if he could

NASA's CHAPEA mission was a 378-day Mars simulation in a habitat in Houston. Scientists want to know what challenges astronauts will face on Mars, including extreme isolation. Crew member Ross ...
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NASA's Mars simulator crew emerged after 378 days: What did they learn?

For over a year, four crew members participating in NASA's Mars Dune Alpha simulated experience communicated, ate, slept and researched as if they were stationed over 200 million miles away on the Red ...
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Dream Chaser proceeding, hits milestones despite uncertain future

Dream Chaser, the vehicle that has been likened to a miniature version of NASA’s space shuttle, continues to reach major ...
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NASA launches mission simulator Web site

An interactive simulation Web site launched by NASA today enables anyone to experience space mission activities, such as docking the space shuttle at the International Space Station. The online Space ...
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Remcom Receives NASA SBIR for Simulation of Wireless Channels for Artemis Spacesuits and Lunar Rovers

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Remcom has received a new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract from NASA to develop enhanced wireless channel modeling ...
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Space exploration in the backyard, on a budget – how NASA uses simulations

Analog missions are designed to simulate the crew's experience in a given mission plan. In some cases, they simulate surface ...
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Astronauts To Test Dream Chaser Flight Simulator At NASA Langley

HAMPTON, Va. – A group of NASA astronauts will be at NASA’s Langley Research Center this week to fly in a simulator that is being used to help evaluate the subsonic handling characteristics of Sierra ...
SpaceNews

NASA Achieves Breakthrough in Black Hole Simulation

NASA scientists have reached a breakthrough in computer modeling that allows them to simulate what gravitational waves from merging black holes look like. The three-dimensional simulations, the ...
ExtremeTech

NASA Produces Stunning Simulation of a Black Hole

It was just this year that we got our first real look at a black hole, and it matched many of the theoretical predictions that came before the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project made history. A new ...