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News Articles: Space

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 30, 2021.

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With Mini Helicopter On Mars, NASA Hopes To Reinvent Flight 'On Another World'

The successful deployment of Ingenuity brings NASA one step closer to its first attempt at testing the possibility of powered, controlled flight on another planet.

April 04, 2021
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  • Chloee Weiner
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab shows the orbital trajectory of the asteroid Apophis as it will pass by Earth in 2029. This week the space agency announced that the asteroid poses no risk of impact to Earth within the next century.

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  • Space

Asteroid Apophis Not A Risk To Earth For At Least 100 Years, NASA Says

The asteroid Apophis was taken off of NASA's "risk list" after the space agency determined earlier this month that it poses no risk of impact to Earth within the next century.

March 27, 2021
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  • Wynne Davis
GPB News NPR

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  • Space

Satellite Launched On Mission To Remove Space Trash

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Jason Forshaw, an aerospace engineer at Astroscale, about ELSA-d, a machine used to clean up junk in space.

March 27, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, which released the world's first image of a black hole in 2019, unveiled a new view on Wednesday showing how the object at the center of the M87 galaxy looks in polarized light.

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  • Space

Stunning New Image Of Black Hole Reveals Surrounding Magnetic Fields

The Event Horizon Telescope project, which produced the world's first image of a black hole in 2019 in the M87 galaxy, unveiled a new view of its magnetic fields as captured by polarized light.

March 24, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A rendering showing ELSA-d's concept of operations. The mission aims to demonstrate technology that could help clear space debris.

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  • Space

New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit

Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, some of the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth.

March 22, 2021
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  • Chloee Weiner
Glynn Lunney, seen here in 2015, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom as part of the Apollo 13 mission operations team.

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  • Obituaries

Glynn Lunney, NASA Flight Director With A Key Role In Saving Apollo 13, Dies At 84

Lunney, who played an integral role in the agency's Apollo program, died Friday. He was credited for his quick decision-making during the race to save the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts.

March 20, 2021
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  • H.J. Mai
Then-Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., with Sen. Chuck Schumer at the U.S. Capitol in 2018. Nelson has been chosen to lead NASA.

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  • Space

Biden To Nominate Former Sen. Bill Nelson Of Florida As NASA Head

Nelson, who spent six days in orbit aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1986, would succeed Trump-era Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

March 19, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman

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  • Space

Emily Levesque: How Have Telescopes Transformed Our Understanding Of The Universe?

Astronomers once gazed at the night sky and charted the stars using their naked eyes. Astrophysicist Emily Levesque describes how generations of telescopes have unlocked the wonders of the universe.

March 19, 2021
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  • NPR/TED Staff
The massive core stage for NASA's <a href="http://nasa.gov/sls">Space Launch System (SLS)</a> rocket is in the B-2 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, for the core stage Green Run test series.

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  • Science

NASA To Test Rocket In The Next Step Toward Returning To The Moon

NASA is counting down to what should be the final major test of the massive rocket it is building to put the first woman and the next man on the moon.

March 18, 2021
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Canyon de Chelly National Monument ("Tséyi'" in Navajo) in Arizona is located on Navajo Nation land.

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  • Space

Mapping Máaz: NASA Uses Navajo Language to Name Features on Mars

Members of NASA's Perseverance rover team, in collaboration with the Navajo Nation, have been naming features of scientific interest with words in the Navajo language.

March 12, 2021
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  • Catherine Whelan
GPB News NPR

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  • Space

China, Russia Announce Plan To Build Moon Research Station

The two countries' space agencies say the proposal, which sets no time frame, could include an orbiting station, a base on the surface, or both.

March 10, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
Allan McDonald in 2016 holds a commemorative poster honoring the seven astronauts killed aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

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  • Obituaries

Remembering Allan McDonald: He Refused To Approve Challenger Launch, Exposed Cover-Up

Allan McDonald, who directed the booster rocket project at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol, urged delaying the launch of the space shuttle before it exploded in 1986. He has died at age 83.

March 08, 2021
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  • Howard Berkes
An image captured by the navigation cameras of NASA's Perseverance rover shows tracks on the surface of Mars during the rover's first test drive on March 4.

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  • Space

In First Test Drive On Mars, Perseverance Rover Makes A Short But Significant Trip

The NASA rover traversed some 21 feet of terrain this week, in its first test drive since landing on the red planet. It also captured photos of its touchdown site and the wheel tracks it left behind.

March 06, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman

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  • Games & Humor

Not My Job: We Quiz NASA's Swati Mohan On Planets Closer Than Mars

Swati Mohan was the Guidance and Controls Operations Lead on the NASA Mars 2020 Mission, which successfully landed the newest Mars Rover, Perseverance, on February 18.

February 27, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
An artist's depiction of a nuclear powered spacecraft of the sort that might one day carry people to Mars. Nuclear could allow for faster journeys, according to the experts.

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  • Science

Experts Ponder Nuclear Rockets To Send Humans To Mars

Nuclear rocket technology might be the fastest, safest way to get to the red planet. But if NASA wants to go, it should start development now.

February 25, 2021
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
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