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NASA | Maryland's Place in Space
What a spectacular day for the Goddard Space Flight Center. During the day the Marylands Place in Space Expo was held at the Baltimore Convention Center. It was like exploring the universe in your own back yard. There was over 100...
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NASA | Little SDO: Tons of Data
Little SDO demonstrates just how much data he sends every day. Read about SDO's veritable avalanche of data:Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | GPM Launch Coverage Promo
Join NASA as we count down the launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission starting at 12:00 PM EST, Thursday, February 27, 2014. GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and...
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NASA | Bon Voyage SDO!
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth. See SDO rolled through Goddard Space Flight Centers hallways, where it was built and tested, and prepared for transport to KSC....
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NASA | Behind the Scenes at the GOES-O Launch Pad
NASA is preparing for the launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O (GOES-O) from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The GOES-O launch is targeted for June 26 during a launch...
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Earth’s newest deep-space probe reaches edge of solar system
On 17 April the half-ton New Horizons spacecraft became only the fifth man-made machine to fly more than 50 astronomical units into deep space.
The Economist
Space: the next frontier for war?
President Trump has just announced plans to create a new military Space Force, increasing the prospect of a new theatre of war. How might war in space be fought?
Curated Video
Exploring the Marvels of the Space Suit
The space suit is a technological and engineering innovation that allows astronauts to exit the spacecraft while in outer space. Learn about all the different features of this machine.
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NASA Spacecraft Discovers New Magnetic Process in Turbulent Space
Though close to home, the space immediately around Earth is full of hidden secrets and invisible processes. In a new discovery reported in the journal Nature, scientists working with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft — MMS —...
English Tree TV
Planets & Solar System Song
It’s a fun planets and solar system song for kids! Learn about the planets, their names and some attributes as we fly through space exploring the solar system!
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NASA | Return to Venus: Part II
Watch "Return to Venus - Part I" at:From Galileo and the Heliocentric model of the Solar System to James Hansen and climate research, observations of the planet Venus throughout history have given us the perspective we need to understand...
Visual Learning Systems
Our Distant Neighbors: Exploring the Outer Planets
The video discusses the exploration of outer planets, particularly Jupiter, through the use of powerful telescopes and spacecrafts. It highlights the contributions of early scientists like Galileo and the advancements in technology that...
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NASA | GPM: Engineering Next Generation Observations of Rain and Snow
For the past three years, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory has gone from components and assembly drawings to a fully functioning satellite at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The satellite...
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Changes to SpaceX's BFR spacecraft headed for Mars
SpaceX's Mars-colonizing Big Falcon Rocket spaceflight system will consist of two parts, a spaceship and a rocket booster, standing 118 meters tall at launch, 11 percent taller than their previous design, reports NBC News.
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The April 15, 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse by Astronomer Michelle Thaller
The public will have the opportunity to view and learn more about the April 15, 2014 total lunar eclipse on NASA Television, the agency's website and social media. The eclipse begins about 2 a.m. EDT and will last about three hours. The...
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NASA | MAVEN Magnetometer
When you navigate with a compass you can orient yourself thanks to Earth's global magnetic field. But on Mars, if you were to walk around with a compass it would haphazardly point from one anomaly to another, because the Red Planet does...
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NASA | Holly Gilbert Discusses Sunspots
NASA Scientist Holly Gilbert discusses recent sunspot activity during Live Shot. This is a Canned Interview.
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NASA | Alex Young Discusses Sunspots
NASA Scientist Alex Young discusses recent sunspot activity during Live Shot. This is a Canned Interview.
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Scientists say Earth will develop a ‘Saturn ring’ made of junk
Researchers theorize that, if nothing is done about the millions of pieces of space junk orbiting Earth, our planet will develop rings made of junk.
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NASA extends Juno’s mission through 2025 to explore Jupiter’s moons and rings
The extended mission will allow the spacecraft to make multiple passes of the moons Ganymede, Europa and Io, as well as Jupiter’s rings
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How LISA Pathfinder Detected Dozens of 'Comet Crumbs'
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave observatory, a tool for detecting ripples...
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Laser propulsion: NASA's laser-powered spacecraft will fly to Mars in 72 hours
NASA scientist Philip Lubin is working on perfecting laser technology that could propel a light spacecraft to Mars in as little as three days. In order for spacecraft to achieve faster speeds, Lubin proposes using an electromagnetic...
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Exploring the Solar System: Lucy Goes to Space
Discover the mysteries of the solar system through the eyes of the Lucy mission and its team members. This first episode features Deputy Principal Investigator Cathy Olkin, who discusses Lucy's journey out to explore the Trojan asteroids...
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Exploring Apollo 11: The Historic Moon Landing Mission
Apollo 11 was the spacecraft that successfully delivered Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969. Learn about the structure of the spaceship and details of the mission.