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Goddard Physicist Inducted to NASA Inventors Hall of Fame
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NASA physicist Edward J. Wollack is among those inducted into the NASA Inventors Hall of Fame this year.

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NASA Tech Lets Scientists See Snow-Water Through the Trees
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NASA scientists are testing a technology that from orbit could more accurately measure water stored in snow.

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Primary Instrument for NASA’s Roman Completed, Begins Tests
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A team of engineers and technicians at Ball Aerospace, one of the industry partners for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space…

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What is the Lunar Explorer Instrument for Space Biology Applications?
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An experiment on the Moon’s surface that will study yeast’s biological response to the lunar environment to help understand and…

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NASA’s ComPair Balloon Mission Readies for Flight
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A team in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, is preparing to fly a balloon-borne science instrument called ComPair, which will test…

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NASA’s ComPair Gamma-Ray Hunting Mission Prepares for Balloon Flight
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Engineers and scientists have shipped NASA’s ComPair instrument to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, ahead of its scheduled August flight early…

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Goddard Team Builds, Tests Calibrator for NASA’s Roman in Record Time
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A vital subsystem for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently delivered to Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, and…

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High-Precision X-Ray Instrument Will Make Its First Trip to Space
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UPDATE Sep. 26, 2022 – The Rocket for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy, or tREXS, mission was launched at 12:10 a.m. EDT, Sep.…

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NASA Engineer Develops Tiny, High-Powered Laser to Find Water on the Moon
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Finding water on the Moon could be easier with a Goddard technology that uses an effect called quantum tunneling to…

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