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Spacecraft AR - Explore NASA Spacecraft With Augmented Reality

Spacecraft AR – Explore NASA Spacecraft With Augmented Reality

Spacecraft AR is a free iPad and Android app offered by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The app enables students to learn about various NASA spacecraft including the Curiosity rover, Voyager, Mars Exploration Rover, and a handful of other spacecraft. Spacecraft AR includes information about each spacecraft’s development and use. With Spacecraft AR installed and open […]

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Boeing tried to amend bid after guidance from NASA official, raising concerns it received inside information

Boeing tried to amend bid after guidance from NASA official, raising concerns it received inside information

Boeing did not win one of the lucrative contracts to build a system capable of landing astronauts on the moon. But the inspector general investigation could be another headache for a company under fire for having an unusually cozy relationship with federal regulators, especially if it identifies wrongdoing on the part of Boeing senior executives.

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NASA rushing to complete Mars launch before planet moves out of range. Mission to include first-ever helicopter exploration.

NASA rushing to complete Mars launch before planet moves out of range. Mission to include first-ever helicopter exploration.

Then again, NASA is facing a tight deadline. Mars and Earth are only on the same side of the sun every 26 months, meaning NASA has a limited window to launch the spacecraft to the Red Planet. Storing the spacecraft and waiting another two years for the next opportunity could have cost “half a billion

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NASA is sending a rover to the moon to prospect for water and help astronauts ‘live off the land’

NASA is sending a rover to the moon to prospect for water and help astronauts ‘live off the land’

NASA awarded the contract, worth nearly $200 million, to Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh-based company, as part of a program to hire private-sector companies to deliver cargo and science experiments to the lunar surface. Unlike the Apollo missions, where astronauts visited the moon and then returned home, NASA is now working toward creating a permanent presence there

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Nasa: Ozone layer hole at smallest on record – ‘great news’ for humanity

The Antarctic ozone hole was first discovered in the 1970s (Image: Nasa) A ‘hole’ in the ozone layer over Antarctica has shrunk to its smallest size on record, Nasa has announced. The ozone layer is a part of the Earth’s atmosphere which protects the Earth from the sun’s dangerous cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation. In the 1970s

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to Partner With 3 Companies on NASA Moon Lander

WASHINGTON — The race is on to build the next spacecraft that will land American astronauts on the moon — and the richest man in the world wants to come in first. On Tuesday, three major aerospace companies led by Blue Origin, the rocket company started by Jeffrey P. Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, announced

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NASA InSight’s ‘Mole on Mars’ working again after 7 months of troubleshooting- Technology News, Firstpost

tech2 News StaffOct 21, 2019 09:22:02 IST NASA’s latest robot on Mars – the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander – appears to have freed itself from a sticky situation some 225 million kilometres from home. The mission’s engineers are confident there’s hope for an important instrument on the lander – dubbed “the mole”– to resume

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NASA live spacewalk: Christina Koch and Jessica Meir make history outside International Space Station

Koch was first to venture out of the ISS with a red tether attached to her suit. Meir soon followed, carrying a tool bag as she made her way out of the hatch at 7:49 a.m. The spacewalk was originally scheduled for 5½ hours, but the crews successfully completed their main task and the mission

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