International Space Station Operations Formally Extended Through 2030 “NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced today the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to extend International Space Station (ISS) operations through 2030, and to work […]
2021
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NASA PAO Just Lets Wrong Stories Go Global – Unchallenged
NASA ‘looks to the heavens’ for help: Agency enlists 24 theologians to assess how the world would react to the discovery of alien life on distant planets and how it […]
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Michael "Rich" Clifford
Michael "Rich" CliffordOctober 13, 1952 – December 28, 2021 STS 53, STS 59, STS 76 #AdAstra pic.twitter.com/1bpLvORKJz — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 28, 2021
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Inspiring The Next Generation Of Space Explorers
Inspiring the Next generation of Explorers FYI @Dr_ThomasZ This photo shows one of James Webb's great-grandchildren watching the launch of James Webb Space Telescope – it was forwarded to me […]
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Webb Mission Updates
James Webb Space Telescope 26 December, 2021 Update – First Mid-Course Correction Burn Completed, NASA “At 7:50 pm EST, December 25, 2021, Webb’s first mid-course correction burn began. It lasted […]
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Webb Launch Coverage
The James Webb Space Telescope Has Left Earth “The James Webb Space Telescope is safely in space, powered on and communicating with ground controllers. Webb continues in coast phase, and […]
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Holiday Schedule
Keith’s note: We’re going to mostly take the next week or so off. But I’ll be updating on the Webb mission on a daily basis and I will be on […]
Posted inRussia
Mounting Issues Within Russia's Space Efforts
Tensions with Russia are now spilling into space, complicating International Space Station partnership, Washington Post “But the fragile coalition that has kept the space station going all these years is […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Zurbuchen +5
Thomas Zurbuchen: Reflecting On Five Years At NASA “I recently celebrated my five-year anniversary at NASA. Over these past 5 years, we have seen great success with NASA’s Science missions. […]
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Hans Mark
‘God of aerospace engineering’: Hans Mark, former UT chancellor who fled Nazis, dies at 92, Austin Americqn statesman “Aerospace engineer Hans Mark, a former University of Texas System chancellor who […]