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Why 3D Printing Will Be a Key Technology in the Next Space Race
— By Jason Dorrier NASA recently announced that they test fired a research rocket engine. Nothing special about that—other than the fact said engine was 75 percent 3D printed parts. As industrial 3D...
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Recalling JFK Moonshot 51 Years Later
— Last year at this time, the USA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the landmark Apollo 11 moon landing. This year, it’s still instructive to recall the vital leadership lessons of President John F....
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What Is the ‘Zero Gravity’ That People Experience in the Vomit Comet or Space...
— By Steven Collicott, Purdue University Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. In the...
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NASA Launches U.S.-European Satellite Mission To Monitor Global Sea Levels
By Michael Laff A joint U.S.-European satellite mission will collect valuable information about rising sea levels. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite — named for the former director of NASA’s...
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Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Ends Mission After ‘Listening’ to the Universe
By Silas Laycock, University of Massachusetts Lowell On May 1, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft reentered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. Although not as well-known to the public as...
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Things You Should Worry About
Good News, not really. This just in from the Life Explained Department of Things you Should Worry About (motto; Don’t sweat the small stuff. There is no small stuff.) NASA has a department to track...
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Our Opposition Grows: Dangers of Launching Nukes Into Space
By Bruce K. Gagnon The US began launching space probes with nuclear power in the early 1960’s. One of these military satellites powered with a nuclear reactor fell back to Earth in April of 1964. It...
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Technicians of The Future
The Same Wonder Clearing out the garage, I found a box of my old View Masters and the reels that came with them. I had an array of reels. Disney classics, the Peanuts, Casper the Friendly Ghost, The...
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Craters of the Moon
A few years ago on a return leg of a road trip to Montana—we stopped at Craters of the Moon National Monument in the Snake River Plain in central Idaho. To see it, you’d think you’d just stepped off...
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International Partners Empower NASA’s Mission on Mars
By Leigh Hartman The 2,260-pound (1,025-kilogram) rover is armed with imaging and sensor equipment from France, Italy, Spain and Norway. “It’s on a mission of exploration, with elements contributed...
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‘For the Benefit of All’: Victor J. Glover and Space
The motto of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is “For the Benefit of All.” This motto has extended to the implementation of diversity and inclusion. From its inception, African...
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What Did Mars Look Like Millions of Years Ago? A New Theory Appeared
— Space is mysterious, and the prospect of exploring or inhabiting other planets has always tantalized humanity. Everyone, from ordinary people to the owner of a rocket company, wonders what might be...
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The Chinese Mars Lander
By The Conversation For the first few months of 2021, the Martian atmosphere was buzzing with new visitors from Earth. First, it was the UAE Space Agency’s Hope probe, followed by the Chinese...
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Beaming Power from the Moon
I have written before about the tendency of billionaires, especially male ones, to use their vast resources for projects that seem unrelated to the wider welfare of humanity. To be fair, I recently saw...
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On a Mission: More Women Astronauts
By ShareAmerica When astronaut Cady Coleman lived on the International Space Station, she had fun with her hair. While living and working in zero gravity, she let her mid-length brown hair float freely...
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The Sun Is Alive, and Why That Matters
When the modern mind attempts to grapple with animistic concepts like “the sun is alive,” the first impulse is to dismiss them as a superstitious fancy. Thankfully, many of us recognize the culturally...
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Shedding Light on the Sun
By ANTHONY KING For most of humankind’s history, it has been hard to explain the Sun as anything other than a powerful deity. For instance, the ancient Greek god Helios – the personification of the Sun...
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Meet the Next Four People Headed to the Moon – How the Diverse Crew of...
By Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University On April 3, 2023, NASA announced the four astronauts who will make up the crew of Artemis II, which is scheduled to launch in late 2024. The Artemis II mission...
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How NASA Helps Fight Cancer
By Leigh Hartman One benefit of scientific research is how expanding knowledge in one area leads to breakthroughs in another. In the United States, research designed to protect astronauts from...
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Biden Is Committed to Nasa’s Artemis Program for the Moon and Beyond
By ShareAmerica President Biden is committed to NASA’s multilateral mission to return to the moon and send astronauts to Mars. “Through the Artemis program, the United States is building the broadest...
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