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Just like many of us, astronauts on the International Space Station look forward to weekends.

In 1960, NASA launched the first weather satellite to determine if Earth could really be studied from space.

He may have been the fifth person to walk on the Moon, but he was the first to play golf there.

The tradition started with a single crockpot of ham and beans after the first successful shuttle launch.

People around the world will be able to pinpoint Orion during its ten-day trip around the Moon.

NASA’s Artemis II mission will carry mementos that honor our nation’s long tradition of exploration.

Exploring ocean worlds, like Europa, Enceladus or Titan, require electronics that can function in unforgiving conditions.

When NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid Dimorphos, one of two asteroids in a binary system, the crash shifted the orbit of both asteroids around the Sun.

The farther the destination, the more fuel a rocket needs. The more fuel the rocket carries, the heavier the spacecraft. The heavier the spacecraft, the more fuel it requires to launch.

Snow covered the ground that Tuesday morning one hundred years ago. A professor, his wife and two colleagues were about to soar into the future.

While meteorologists have been celebrating spring since the first of March, astronomically speaking, spring begins today.

NASA is tackling the challenge of safely integrating air taxi technologies into the national airspace system.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has seen the Martian spiderwebs up close.

With no refrigeration, resupply, or late-load capability, all food that will fly aboard Artemis II was carefully chosen for the mission.

Many of us are adjusting our biological clocks as we spring forward into daylight savings time.

NASA supports the design and development of multiple commercial space stations like Starlab.

As part of the REACCH Demonstration, tentacle-like arms that extend and wrap around objects were added to one of the Astrobee robotic units in orbit.

Driving on Mars is no easy task. But generative AI and other smart tools are streamlining the process.

Anything that goes into space and returns to Earth must pass through Earth’s atmosphere, making atmospheric flight testing critical for space missions.

In 1973, science fiction author Al Nussbaum wrote about a farmer on Mars whose daughter looks up at a twinkling star – Earth.