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NASA Images Reveal Texan Conditions Not Seen Since 1936
Stuck in the grip of an exceptional drought, the city of El Paso, Texas, is facing dusty conditions not seen in nearly 90 ...
Jared Isaacman could be confirmed as NASA's next head. How the astronaut became a billionaire
Billionaire Jared Isaacman, who has been to space twice and is Trump's pick to head NASA, could be one step closer to ...
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NASA’s fifth women-only spacewalk gets the job done 260 miles above Earth
In NASA’s fifth all-female spacewalk, Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers installed solar panel mounts and repositioned antennas ...
There’s a problem with the futuristic thrusters on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft
Psyche has an unusual propulsion system which uses ionized xenon and which gives off a blue glow. These thrusters use tiny amounts of xenon and expel charged atoms to move forwards. While electric ...
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Senate committee advances Trump's nomination of Jared Isaacman for NASA Chief forward
Isaacman was nominated by Trump in December, and sat before the committee for a hearing on April 9. With the vote to secure ...
'I feel like a little kid': NASA astronaut, 70, reflects on his 220-day mission
Veteran astronaut Don Pettit conducted hundreds of hours of research and captured over half a million photos during his ISS ...
NASA’s oldest astronaut felt the decades melt away in space before returning on his 70th birthday
NASA's oldest full-time astronaut is back home and doing well a week after wrapping up a seven-month space mission.
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NASA Is Studying Tropical Ecosystems by Linking the Ground, Air and Space
A NASA plane came to Panama to acquire aerial images to inform scientists about the diversity of tropical ecosystems. At the ...
Asteroids: NASA Tracking House-Sized Space Rock Near Earth
The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.