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The SLS rocket was shipped on a barge from New Orleans. It will be prepped for flight inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center.
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Lower gravity. Higher radiation. No ER access. These are just a few of the challenges that humans face in outer space. Emily and Regina talk to a NASA astronaut (and astronaut scientist) about the impact of spaceflight on the human body.
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NASA is facing a tight budget and wants to wrap up the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but astronomers don't want to see the 25-year-old X-ray space telescope mission go.
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The four crew members entered the 3D-printed Mars replica on June 25, 2023, as part of a NASA experiment to observe how humans would fare living on the Red Planet.
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The return of Starliner has been indefinitely delayed, but NASA and Boeing say the astronauts will use the spaceship to get home — eventually.
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Problems with the capsule's propulsion system, used to maneuver the spacecraft, prompted NASA and Boeing to delay the flight home several times while they analyzed the trouble.
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket will cause sonic booms once it launches, carrying the last satellite from NOAA GOES-U. Once the two boosters land on the Earth’s surface, sonic booms may be heard across Central Florida.
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is poised to send a GOES weather satellite to geostationary orbit for NOAA. After launch, the spacecraft will take nearly three-weeks to reach its destination in geostationary orbit 22,000 miles above the equator.
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A new weather eye launches into space on Tuesday, June 25 with the latest technology that will help meteorologists and other scientists bring the best forecasts in Earth and Space!
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The space agency determined that the material was a metal alloy stanchion used on “NASA flight support equipment.”
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NASA and other federal agencies recently did a tabletop simulation of an Earth-threatening asteroid to see how they'd handle it.
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Managers are still troubleshooting a number of thruster issues and helium leaks on the capsule's first crewed flight test.