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CGI rendering of the Gateway space station hosts the Orion spacecraft and SpaceX's deep space logistics spacecraft in a polar orbit around the Moon, supporting scientific discovery on the lunar surface during the Artemis IV mission.

Gateway Podcasts

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NASA Celebrates 20 Years of Earth-Observing Aura Satellite

NASA Celebrates 20 Years of Earth-Observing Aura Satellite

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NASA astronaut Engle poses in front of space shuttle Enterprise during its first rollout in 1976

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NASA astronaut Engle poses in front of space shuttle Enterprise during its first rollout in 1976

Joe H. Engle Oral History Interviews

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NASA Celebrates 20 Years of Earth-Observing Aura Satellite

NASA Celebrates 20 Years of Earth-Observing Aura Satellite

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Amendment 28: Delay of Proposal Due Date for E.11 Consortium in Biological Sciences

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Discovery Alert: With Six New Worlds, 5,500 Discovery Milestone Passed!

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NASA’s Webb Investigates Eternal Sunrises, Sunsets on Distant World

NASA’s Webb Investigates Eternal Sunrises, Sunsets on Distant World

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Amendment 29: New Opportunity D.20 Exoplanet Mass Measurement Program

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Discovery Alert: With Six New Worlds, 5,500 Discovery Milestone Passed!

Discovery Alert: With Six New Worlds, 5,500 Discovery Milestone Passed!

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Amendment 31: Delay of Proposal Due Date for C.15 Planetary Protection Research.

Amendment 31: Delay of Proposal Due Date for C.15 Planetary Protection Research.

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NASA astronaut Engle poses in front of space shuttle Enterprise during its first rollout in 1976

Remembering Joe Engle: Astronaut, Test Pilot, Legend

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NASA astronaut Engle poses in front of space shuttle Enterprise during its first rollout in 1976

Joe H. Engle Oral History Interviews

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A computer display of a map shows several lines which represent possible air traffic routes for an airplane to follow.

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The Apollo spacecraft orbiting the Moon

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Buzz and Neil set up the flag

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From left, team members Annie Meier, Malay Shah and Jamie Toro assemble the flight hardware for NASA’s Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor, or OSCAR, on Oct. 10, 2019, in the Space Station Processing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. OSCAR is an Early Career Initiative project at the spaceport that studies technology to convert trash and human waste into useful gasses such as methane, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. By processing small pieces of trash in a high-temperature reactor, OSCAR is advancing new and innovative technology for managing waste in space. A prototype has been developed, and the team is in the process of constructing a new rig for a suborbital flight test.

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Aerial view of a building with a large rooftop garden featuring a mix of green and purple vegetation. The garden is designed in a curving, artistic pattern. In the background, other buildings and lush greenery are visible.

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NASA Astronaut Official Portrait Frank Rubio

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SOFIA Airborne Telescope Diameter

SOFIA Airborne Telescope Diameter

Like most modern research telescopes, the SOFIA telescope uses a mirror to concentrate and focus the incoming light.

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