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NASA astronauts on spacewalk prep space station for new solar array

Expedition 66 crewmates Kayla Barron and Raja Chari secured brackets and erected struts at the base of one of the space station's eight original power-providing arrays, preparing the area for the future installation of an ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA).

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity to keep flying through September (at least)

As part of this extension, Ingenuity will also sport some special upgrades that will allow the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) drone to do even more daring flights in support of the Perseverance rover mission that landed with it in February 2021.

Former astronaut to back off Twitter war with head of Russian space agency

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is seen inside the Cupola, a special module which provides a 360-degree viewing of the Earth and the International Space Station, on July 12, 2015.

Every Major Space Event in 2022: NASA's Moon Mission, SpaceX Launches, Meteor Showers And More

CNET

CNET

On March 17, the agency plans to roll its Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft out to the pad, slowly inching toward liftoff and the completion of step one for modern moon discoveries. Reusable spacecraft built ...

NASA's massive SLS moon rocket ready for debut dress rehearsal roll to launchpad

Florida Today

Florida Today

For more than 50 years NASA's twin crawler-transporters have been integral pieces of human spaceflight operations at Kennedy Space Center rolling rockets from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to their launch pads during the Apollo, shuttle, and now ...

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei breaks record for longest US spaceflight

When NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei launched into space 11 months ago, he did not know how long he would be off the planet, let alone that he would be up there long enough to set any records. But when the clock strikes 12:24 p.m. EDT (1624 GMT) today ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover nabs 8th rock sample on the Red Planet

NASA's top-notch Red Planet geology rover is moving on to explore an ancient river delta now that its eighth rock sample is secured for future analysis. "Stashing my latest rock core sample (# ...

Asteroid spotted just before hitting Earth's atmosphere wows astronomers

This weekend, an astronomer spotted a small asteroid just hours before the space rock crashed into Earth's atmosphere and met its fiery demise. On Friday (March 11), astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky was observing the sky at the Piszkésteto Mountain ...

The Father of Modern Neuroscience Discovered the Basic Unit of the Nervous System

Scientific American

Scientific American

Modern brain science as we know it began with the work of a scientist whose creative thought sprang from memories of a childhood spent in the preindustrial Spanish countryside. By Benjamin Ehrlich | Scientific American April 2022 Issue.

'Tiny' asteroid strikes Earth testing early warning system

(CNN) The early warning system to detect asteroids that pose a threat to Earth, operated by NASA and its collaborators around the world, got to flex its muscles. It successfully detected a ...