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    NASA Postpones Jan. 8 Spacewalk

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    NASA is postponing the Thursday, Jan. 8, spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The agency is monitoring a medical concern with a crew member that arose Wednesday afternoon aboard the orbital complex. Due to medical privacy, it is not appropriate for NASA to share more details about the crew member. The situation is stable. NASA […]

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    Expedition 74 Ready for Thursday Spacewalk and Continuing Research

    NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 Commander Mike Fincke poses inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock next to a spacesuit. The helmet is secured with a protective cover designed to prevent scratches and contamination when the suit is not in use, ensuring the visor remains clear for spacewalks.

    Expedition 74 is making final preparations for the first spacewalk of 2026 that will see two NASA astronauts exit the International Space Station for power upgrade work on Thursday. Science also continued aboard the orbital outpost with Wednesday’s research focusing on physics, microbiology, artificial intelligence, and Earth observations.

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    NASA’s Second ESCAPADE Spacecraft Completes Trajectory Maneuver

    On Jan. 6, the mission operations team for NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) successfully completed the second trajectory correction maneuver for one of the two spacecraft, after delaying the attempt in December 2025. The other spacecraft completed its first two maneuvers in December as originally planned. This maneuver sets up the […]

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    Expedition 74 Gears Up for First Spacewalk of 2026

    At center, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut and Expedition 74 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui assists NASA astronauts Zena Cardman (left) and Mike Fincke (right), the station’s flight engineer and commander respectively, during spacesuit checks inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock.

    The Expedition 74 crew is gearing up for the first spacewalk of 2026 this week that will see two astronauts prepare the International Space Station for a new set of roll-out solar arrays. The orbital residents also had time on Monday to conduct microgravity research, pack a U.S. cargo craft, and maintain communications and life support systems.

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    NASA-French SWOT Satellite Provides Global Estimate of River Discharge

    Science teams at NASA and the French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales) have released the first-ever global estimate of river discharge and suspended sediment, as observed from space, marking a new milestone in our ability to understand one of Earth’s most fundamental systems. Developed using data from the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean […]

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    NASA Works MAVEN Spacecraft Issue Ahead of Solar Conjunction

    NASA is continuing efforts to recontact its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, which was last heard from on Dec. 6. In partnership with NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), the MAVEN team has sent commands for spacecraft recovery and is monitoring the network for a spacecraft signal. The MAVEN team also continues to analyze […]

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    NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-12 Assignments for Space Station Mission

    Image shows a blue background featuring pictures of four astronauts that comprise of NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission. From left to right, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.

    As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, and will be accompanied by ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie […]

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    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Observes Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from Oct. 18 to Nov. 5, 2025, with its WISPR (Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument. The spacecraft snapped around 10 images of the comet per day. During this period, Parker Solar Probe was speeding away from the Sun following its 25th solar flyby on Sept. 15.  […]

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