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NASA finally launches unisex spacesuit — preventing more spacewalk let-downs
On Tuesday, NASA showed off the space agency’s latest, most diverse spacesuit yet. It was created specially for NASA’s ...
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NASA charged taxpayers $5M for SpaceX safety review after Elon Musk got high
Remember when Elon Musk got high with Joe Rogan during an interview last year? It seemed like good, legal fun at the time. It turns out that toke cost US taxpayers five million dollars. NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine initiated a safety and culture review of SpaceX the moment he found ...
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NASA engineer says Viking missions discovered life on Mars in the 1970s
Gilbert Levin, a NASA engineer who worked on the Viking missions, says he's “convinced we found evidence of life of Mars in the 1970s.” In a Scientific American article published today, Levin explains how two separate craft landed on the surface of the red planet and conducted ...
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NASA finally has enough spacesuits for first ever all-woman spacewalk on October 21
In March, NASA had plans to conduct its first ever all-women spacewalk. But, it was canceled down to suit sizings. But it's ...
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NASA releases 3D Moon map for visual artists
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been circling around the moon for almost a decade now. During this course, ...
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Google and NASA let it slip that humans have achieved quantum supremacy
NASA recently published a Google Research paper indicating the company's 'Bristlecone' quantum computer has successfully completed a processing task in a matter of minutes that would take a classical computer some 10,000 years to complete. Then it mysteriously deleted the research ...
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NASA to hire data scientist with blockchain and cryptocurrency skills
NASA is looking for a candidate with a wide range of skills, but notes that “experience with cryptocurrency and blockchain ...
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Watch: NASA astronauts build gorgeous zero-gravity fires for science
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are tasked with conducting hundreds of experiments, but perhaps none are as pretty as recent efforts to shape fire in zero gravity conditions. https://youtu.be/eiJAZSc-IQM The big idea behind the beautiful balls of fire ...
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Trump-appointed NASA head just declared Pluto a planet again
NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine – a politician who's probably seen one or two episodes of “Cosmos” – has officially declared Pluto a planet again. His reasoning: that's the way he learned it in high school. https://twitter.com/CReppWx/status/1164981282562039809 Bridenstine's ...
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NASA astronaut accused of first-ever space crime denies allegations
NASA is looking into a claim that astronaut Anne McClain improperly accessessed the bank account of her estranged spouse ...
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Scientists ask NASA to reconsider Mars mission after studying effects of space radiation
A team of scientists recently conducted a first-of-its-kind experiment to study the effects of space radiation on a living brain. And the results don't bode well for NASA's planned mission to Mars. The research was conducted by lead author Charles Limoli and scientists from University ...
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NASA is prepping a 2026 mission to Titan to find the origins of life
NASA yesterday announced details about its next major mission called Dragonfly, which aims to take a trip to Titan, Saturn's ...
