NASA will provide live coverage beginning at 9:45 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, as Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud‑Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:15 a.m. EDT.
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On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, marking the planned and successful completion of its data‑collection phase. The mission exceeded its planned two‑year duration studying atmospheric gravity waves to better understand how energy moves from Earth’s atmosphere into space.
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Students Build Moon Robots for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge
Katherine Rauscher, of Michigan Technological University, prepares her team’s prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge competition on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, inside the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Forty-seven teams from around the U.S. designed and built remote-controlled robots capable of traversing challenging lunar terrain while constructing regolith-based berm under conditions similar to those the agency will face as it returns to the lunar surface through Artemis.
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