‘Stunning was the word’: Astronauts snap amazing aurora photo from ISS during severe geomagnetic storm
12 Oct
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‘Stunning was the word’: Astronauts snap amazing aurora photo from ISS during severe geomagnetic storm

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NASA Space Technology NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared this photo of auroral displays, taken from the International Space Station, via X on Oct. 11, 2024.(Image credit: NASA/Don Pettit)The auroras were pretty special on Thursday night (Oct. 10) — especially if you got to see them from orbit.NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Matthew Dominick are in that very exclusive club, getting a bird's-eye view of the amazing auroral displays — which were supercharged by a recent solar storm — from the International Space Station (ISS). And the sight took the spaceflyers aback."Stunning was the word," Pettit wrote in a lengthy post on X on Friday (Oct. 11)  that shared a photo of the celestial light show. "The sun goes burp and the atmosphere turns red. Spectacular not only from Earth but from orbit as well."The sun goes...
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Planning our lunar return? Get a telescope
12 Oct
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Planning our lunar return? Get a telescope

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NASA Space Technology Perhaps you’re a propulsion engineer making lunar landers as part of NASA’s CLPS program. Perhaps you’re a lawyer specializing in the OST. Or you are a chemist cracking the codes of lunar ISRU.If you are any of these things or even if you just know what those acronyms mean, you’re part of the lunar revival, our return to the dramatic wilds of the moon, a return for science and industry and, just maybe, helping to make life multi-planetary.I absolutely support those goals, but I also have a telescope. Anyone planning our lunar future should have one too or, at least, regular access to one. Why? Because we won’t have a lunar future worth having if we don’t really see the moon. And if we don’t really see the moon, we’ll miss how...
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NASA Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2024

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NASA Space Technology In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize Hispanic astronauts who have flown in space. The table below lists these individuals of various nationalities who have made significant contributions to their space programs. The first Hispanic astronauts completed short flights to a Soviet space station and aboard the space shuttle. In the past 23 years, many more have completed flights to the International Space Station and contributed to its assembly, operations, and research activities.Table of Hispanic astronauts who have flown in space.Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez of Cuba holds the title of the first person of Hispanic heritage to fly in space. He spent eight days aboard the Salyut-6 space station in September 1980 as part of the Soviet Union’s Interkosmos program to fly cosmonauts from friendly socialist countries. The first Hispanic to fly...
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NASA awards Rocket Lab study contract for Mars Sample Return
09 Oct
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NASA awards Rocket Lab study contract for Mars Sample Return

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NASA Space Technology WASHINGTON — NASA has awarded a contract to Rocket Lab to study alternative concepts for Mars Sample Return (MSR), joining several other efforts to improve the cost and schedule of the program.Rocket Lab said Oct. 7 that it received a contract to study what it called “a simplified, end-to-end mission concept” for MSR that would deliver samples being collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth for a “fraction” of currently projected costs, estimated to be as high as $11 billion, and several years earlier than 2040.NASA solicited concepts for industry studies to look at alternative architectures for MSR or key elements of it, like the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) rocket that will launch the collected samples into orbit around Mars. NASA selected seven companies in June for those studies, but Rocket Lab...
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