Astronaut Tips For Living in Close Quarters
One thing astronauts have to be good at is living in confined spaces for long periods of time. NASA astronaut Anne McClain explains the five general skills that astronauts and psychologists have determined create a healthy culture for living and working remotely in small groups.
Moon Thrusters Withstand Over 60 Hot-Fire Tests
Future Artemis Program lunar landers could use next-generation thrusters, the small rocket engines used to make alterations in a spacecraft’s flight path or altitude, to enter lunar orbit and descend to the surface. NASA and Frontier Aerospace of Simi Valley, California, recently performed roughly 60 hot-fire tests on two thruster prototypes over the course of 10 days.
Chandra Data Tests ‘Theory of Everything’
Despite having many different versions of string theory circulating throughout the physics community for decades, there have been very few experimental tests. Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, however, have now made a significant step forward in this area.
Welcome Home, Orion: Spacecraft Ready for Final Artemis I Launch Preparations
NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis I returned to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 25 after engineers put it through the rigors of environmental testing at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Ohio. At Kennedy, Orion will undergo final processing and preparations prior to launching on the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to the Moon that will ultimately lead to the exploration of Mars.
Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret
In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft encountered the solar system’s mysterious seventh planet — icy-cold Uranus. The dataset collected by Voyager 2 is the only up-close measurements ever made of the planet. Three decades later, scientists reinspecting that data found one more secret.
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