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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 2, Decision Velocity Small Steps, Giant Leaps
An Exploration Ground Systems Program division chief, Jeremy Parsons, discusses practical ways to make quality decisions faster.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: The Boeing Starliner
Tony Castilleja and Celena Dopart, Boeing engineers, talk about the Boeing Starliner spacecraft and all the testing and training happening to get the vehicle and crew ready for the first missions. HWHAP Episode 108.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: Sticking the Landing on Mars
Alicia Dwyer-Cianciolo and Doug Trent, entry, descent, and landing experts at NASA, unfold the intricacies of accomplishing a successful landing for humans visiting the Red Planet on this eighth episode of our Mars Monthly series. HWHAP...
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NASA's Curious Universe: Our Window to the Stars
Decades of planning. One heart-pounding setback. Over a million mesmerizing images of space. This is the story of the Hubble Space Telescope, our window to the stars.
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Watch SpaceX Launch Science and Supplies to the Space Station
Watch the 24th SpaceX cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Launch is targeted for 5:07 a.m. (10:07 UTC). On board are a variety of scientific investigations, including a...
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Expedition 66 Soyuz MS-19 Undocking from International Space Station - March 30, 2022
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov departed the International Space Station March 30 and returned to Earth on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft for a parachute-assisted landing near the town...
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 30, VIPER Lunar Rover Small Steps, Giant Leaps
VIPER Project Manager Dan Andrews discusses the lunar rover’s upcoming mission to look for water ice on the Moon.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: Welcome Home, Bob and Doug!
Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley recount their return to Earth at their welcome home ceremony and crew news conference in Houston. The NASA astronauts made history in August as the first to splash down in an American spacecraft in 45 years,...
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Vice President Kamala Harris Speaks to NASA Astronaut Mark Vande Hei
Vice President Kamala Harris recently spoke to astronaut Mark Vande Hei after he returned home from spending 355 days in space — the longest single spaceflight for a NASA astronaut. Mark's mission and research in space helps us better...
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Why Observe?: Tree Height
"Why Observe?: Tree Height" explores surface height measurement missions and the role that citizen science can play within the scientific community. NASA uses field campaigns and sensors on satellites and the International Space Station...
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The Hubble Space Telescope 360° Tour
Pay a visit to the Hubble Space Telescope in its orbit above Earth’s surface and take a tour of the technology behind Hubble’s spectacular cosmic images. This 360 degree video points out Hubble’s instruments, mirrors, and other major...
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NICER Catches Milestone X-ray Burst
A thermonuclear blast on a pulsar called J1808 resulted in the brightest burst of X-rays seen to date by NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope. The explosion, which occurred on a pulsar known as J1808 on...
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NASA's NICER Tests Matter's Limits
Matter in the hearts of neutron stars – dense remnants of exploded massive stars – takes the most extreme form we can measure. Now, thanks to data from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an X-ray telescope on the...
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NASA's MMS Captures Magnetic Reconnection in Action
Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space, called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is one of the prime drivers of space radiation and so it is a key...
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NASA's Fermi Mission Shows How Luck Favors the Prepared
In 2017, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope played a pivotal role in two important breakthroughs occurring just five weeks apart. But what might seem like extraordinary good luck is really the product of research, analysis,...
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NASA's Fermi Finds the Farthest Blazars
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black holes. Light from the most distant object began its journey to us when the...
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NASA Hangout: Comet ISON LIVE
NASA Hangout: Comet ISON LIVE The ultimate battle of fire and ice! Who will win, the sun or Comet #ISON? Join #NASA as we followed the journey of Comet ISON as it slingshot around the sun. During this LIVE event NASA scientists answered:...
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NASA | The Challenge to Fix Hubble's Best Survey Camera
Shortly after NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced that NASA would add a servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, Hubbles most prominent camera and most used instrument, died. The incredible engineering challenge to...
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NASA | X-Class: A Guide to Solar Flares
Flares happen when the powerful magnetic fields in and around the sun reconnect. They're usually associated with active regions, often seen as sun spots, where the magnetic fields are strongest. Flares are classified according to their...
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NASA | Taking Earth's Temperature
Next month, world leaders will gather in Copenhagen at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to negotiate a new global climate treaty. In anticipation of this event, NASA has compiled a multimedia resource collection for editors...
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NASA | Exploring the Inner Solar System (Part 1/6)
Chief Scientist of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Jim Garvin, takes us on a journey to Mercury, Venus, Earth, the moon, near-Earth objects, and Mars. Why does space matter? Why is exploring the inner solar system so crucial?...
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NASA | Beyond Einstein: Part II
View "Beyond Einstein: Part I" at:Albert Einstein's theories rank among humanity's greatest achievements. They sparked the scientific revolution of the 20th Century. In their attempts to understand how space, time and matter are...
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NASA | Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula
The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any previously seen from the object. The outburst was first detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on April 12 and lasted...
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NASA | Earth Science Week | How Does the Earth System ...
Climate scientists have been monitoring Earth's energy budget since the 1978 launch of NASA's Nimbus-7 satellite. That mission carried a new instrument into space called the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (or ERBE), designed to...