For the first time, NASA astronauts are practicing a launch into space aboard the agency’s Orion spacecraft, and provided feedback on the new capsule’s cockpit design.
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NASA has selected the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to develop and operate the Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System.
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On Saturday, Sept. 28, nearly 200 hundred people will try to race — and beat — the International Space Station as it completes one orbit around the Earth.
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Students at the New Horizons Governor’s School for Science and Technology in Hampton, Va., will design a microgravity experiment that may fly on the Space Station.
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Mack Benn Jr. Elementary School in Suffolk, Va., is one of 12 NASA Explorer Schools to be identified as an exceptional leader in STEM education.
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Three new Expedition 37 crew members lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:58 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 25 (2:58 a.m. Kazakh time, Thursday, Sept. 26) on a six-hour trek to the International Space Station.
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NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. State Department and Nike Inc. will host the fifth forum of the LAUNCH initiative at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28.
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NASA will make scientists and data visualizations available to journalists Friday, Sept. 27, with the release of a portion of the Fifth Assessment Report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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NASA’s Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and atmosphere.
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You can watch the launch of the next crew to the International Space Station at a special viewing party at the Gilruth Center, located on NASA’s Johnson Space Center campus, starting at 2:45 p.m. CDT Wednesday, Sept. 25, in the facility’s Alamo Ballroom.
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