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PHOTO DATE: 10-21-10LOCATION: Bldg 2NSUBJECT: STS-133 crew press conference
PHOTO DATE: 10-21-10LOCATION: Bldg 2NSUBJECT: STS-133 crew press conference
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Todd Ely, principal investigator for NASAs Deep Space Atomic Clock, from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, explains the payload during a NASA prelaunch technology TV broadcast for the Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 23, 2019. The new space clock could improve how we navigate on the Moon, to Mars and beyond. The space clock is one of four NASA payloads scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A beginning at 11:30 p.m. EDT on June 24, 2019. STP-2 is managed by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
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Technology Administration - 2002 NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY LAUREATES RECEPTION
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Former NASA administrator and astronaut Charlie Bolden, left, talks to national radio host and panel host Tom Joyner during a panel discussion at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 28, 2019. The discussion focused on the agencys Moon to Mars plans and was open for all Kennedy employees to attend. Additional participants included former astronaut Winston Scott, Kennedy Chief Technologist Barbara Brown and Exploration Ground Systems Associate Manager, Technical, Kim Carter.
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Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, is seen during a media briefing where he and other panelist outlined activities around the Sunday, Sept. 21 orbital insertion at Mars of the agencys Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. (
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Rex Geveden, President of Teledyne Brown Engineering, makes a point during a press conference, Wednesday, May 4, 2011, to discuss NASA's Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission which has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which the spacecraft was designed to test at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The experiment, launched in 2004, used four ultra-precise gyroscopes to measure the hypothesized geodetic effect, the warping of space and time around a gravitational body, and frame-dragging, the amount a spinning object pulls space and time with it as it rotates.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Commercial Crew Program Manager Ed Mango talks to commercial spaceflight industry representatives about the agency's plans for certifying commercially developed spacecraft and launch systems in support of crewed missions to the International Space Station around the middle of the decade.
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PHOTO DATE:  11-17-08LOCATION:  Bldg 2N, 212SUBJECT: Photographic support for Media Services:  Photograph STS-126 Flight Day 3 Mission Status Briefing.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden delivers opening remarks during a panel discussion on the search for life beyond Earth in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters on Monday, July 14, 2014 in Washington, DC. The panel discussed how NASA's space-based observatories are making new discoveries and how the agency's new telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, will continue this path of discovery after its schedule launch in 2018.
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STS-132 Press Conference.  Photo Date: May 3, 2010.  Location: Building 2N, Press Conference Room.
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NASA's Hyper-x Program Manager, Vince Rausch talks about the upcoming launch of the X43A vehicle over the Pacific Ocean later this month from his office at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA.  Hyper X is a high risk, high payoff program.  The flight of the X43 A will demonstrated in flight for the first time, air breathing hypersonic propulsion technology. (Photo by Jeff Caplan)
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The inaugural Glenn Symposium focused on advancements in aerospace technology including power and propulsion, autonomy and communications, low boom supersonics, hypersonics, and more. Discussion also encompassed humans returning to the moon, including challenges associated with the 2024 mission.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Commercial Crew Program Deputy  Manager Brent Jett talks to commercial spaceflight industry representatives about the agency's plans for certifying commercially developed spacecraft and launch systems in support of crewed missions to the International Space Station around the middle of the decade.
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PHOTO DATE:  03-09-10LOCATION: Bldg 2NSUBJECT:  STS-131 press conference
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PHOTO DATE:  07-16-14 LOCATION:   Bldg. 2s - PAO Studio BSUBJECT: Expedition 41/42 Crew News Conference with crew members Elena Serova (RSA), Alexander Samokutyaev (RSA) and Barry "Butch" Wilmore.
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jsc2019e036695 (June 28, 2019) - Apollo 11 flight director Gene Kranz talks to grand opening visitors in NASA Johnson Space Centers Teague Auditorium. NASAs Johnson Space Center reopened the fully restored Apollo Mission Control Center with a grand opening and ribbon cutting event with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on June 28. The room now is reconfigured to its Apollo-era condition. Many of the items in the restored room are original pieces from 1969 that were found or donated, and the missing items were replicated to ensure walking into the viewing room would feel like taking a step back in time. The restoration team used old photographs, footage, documents and interviews and discussions with Apollo veterans to set everything in its proper place, including coffee mugs, clothing articles and ashtrays. Beginning July 1, the Apollo Mission Control Center will become part of daily tours at Johnson hosted by Space Center Houston.
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Expedition 43 Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) answers reporters questions as he and, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos, and NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly participate in a crew press conference, Thursday, March 26, 2015, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kelly, Kornienko, and Padalka launched to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016.
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NASA Glenn Research Center Director Ray Lugo talks at an event celebrating John Glenn's legacy and 50 years of americans in orbit held at the Cleveland State University Wolstein Center on Friday, March 3, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio.  Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Professor Sam Ting, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) principal investigator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks to media about the particle physics detector. AMS is designed to operate as an external experiment on the International Space Station. It will use the unique environment of space to study the universe and its origin by searching for dark matter. AMS-2 will fly to the station aboard space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission targeted to launch April 19 at 7:48 p.m. EDT.
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Mike Gunson, OCO-2 project scientist with NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, listens to a question during a press briefing for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), NASAs first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, Thursday, June 12, 2014, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. OCO-2 is set for a July 1, 2014 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Its mission is to measure the global distribution of carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earths climate.
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Expedition 43 Russian Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) talks with an instructor during an Soyuz TMA-16M Trajectory and Flight Plan briefing, Thursday, March 19, 2015 at Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Padalka, Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos and NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly are preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time. As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016.
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Under Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Ronald Sega, testifies before the House Committee on Science and Technology regarding the future of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and results of the Nunn-McCurdy review of NOAAs weather satellite program, Thursday, June 8, 2006, at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium, members of news media are briefed on preparations for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-4 mission to resupply the International Space Station. Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of Mission Assurance with SpaceX, participated in the briefing.The mission is the fourth of 12 SpaceX flights NASA contracted with the company to resupply the space station. It will be the fifth trip by a Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory. The spacecrafts 2.5 tons of supplies, science experiments, and technology demonstrations include critical materials to support 255 science and research investigations that will occur during the station's Expeditions 41 and 42. Liftoff is targeted for an instantaneous window at 2:14 a.m. EDT.
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PHOTO DATE: 10-21-10LOCATION: Bldg 2NSUBJECT: STS-133 crew press conference
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NASA Acting Chief Technologist Douglas Terrier speaks about technology challenges for the Moon, Mars, and beyond during Sneak Peek Friday at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, Friday, April 6, 2018 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.  The festival is open to the public April 7-8.
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Dr. Jonathan Lunine, Director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Co-Chair of the Former Committee on Human Spaceflight, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine testifies during the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics hearing titled "Keeping our sights on Mars: A Review of NASA's Deep Space Exploration Programs and Lunar Proposal", Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington.
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NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana speaks at Small Satellites, Big Missions: Pathfinding CubeSats Exploring the Moon and Beyond,” a news conference during the 37th Space Symposium, Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist, speaks at an event to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the launch of the Voyager 1 and 2 missions, Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Voyager 1 was launched September 5, 1977, with a mission to study Jupiter and Saturn, but now the twin Voyager spacecrafts are on a journey into interstellar space to search for the heliopause, a region never reached by any other spacecraft.
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Jim Fanson, Kepler project manager, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. talks about the Kepler mission during a media briefing, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2008, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Kepler, the first mission with the ability to find planets like earth, is scheduled to launch on March 5, 2009 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. aboard a Delta II rocket.
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David Mitchell, MAVEN project manager, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, discusses the upcoming launch of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, at a press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington on Monday, Oct. 28th, 2013. MAVEN is the agency's next mission to Mars and the first devoted to understanding the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet. (
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Dr. Steve Squyres, from Cornell University, talks during a Mars Program Update where prominent scientists discussed evidence of water on Mars, current Program status, including the 7th Anniversary of the Mars rovers and the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory mission and previewing exciting discoveries to come, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
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Brian Clement, Planetary Protection lead for MarCO, NASA JPL, talks about Mars Cube One (MarCO) during an Mars InSight pre-landing briefing, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.  InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core. InSight is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet at approximately noon PST (3 p.m. EST) on Nov. 26.
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Regions - Images Relating to the Discover-AQ Program - images and video clips relating to the Discover-AQ Program. Discover-AQ stands for Deriving Information on Surface conditions from COlumn and VERtically resolved observations relevant to Air Quality , Environmental Protection Agency
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Portrait, Michael Griffin, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA REMEMBERS
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Psyche Mission and Science Briefing. Abi Biswas, Deep Space Optical Communications project technologist, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, participates in a Psyche mission and science briefing at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Psyche is the first mission to explore an asteroid with a surface that likely contains substantial amounts of metal rather than rock or ice. Liftoff of NASAs Psyche spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, is targeted for 10:16 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A.
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Bob Cabana, NASA Associate Administrator, participates in a prelaunch media briefing following completion of NASAs Flight Readiness Review for Artemis I on Aug. 22, 2022, at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Artemis I is scheduled to launch at 8:33 a.m. EDT on Aug. 29, 2022, from Kennedys Launch Complex 39B. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.
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Technology Administration - NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE
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NASAs UAP Independent Study Team Meeting. David Spergel, chair of NASA's independent study on unidentified anomalous phenomena and President of the Simons Foundation, speaks during a public meeting of NASAs unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) independent study team, Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. The UAP independent study team is a counsel of 16 community experts across diverse areas on matters relevant to potential methods of study for unidentified anomalous phenomena. NASA commissioned the nine-month study to examine UAP from a scientific perspective and create a roadmap for how to use data and the tools of science to move our understanding of UAP forward.
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JPL Director Michael Watkins gives remarks during a Mars InSight post-landing press conference, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.
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Cassini program manager at JPL, Earl Maize, center row, calls out the end of the Cassini mission, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Since its arrival in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has been a discovery machine, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Saturn system and captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. On Sept. 15, 2017, operators deliberately plunged the spacecraft into Saturn, as Cassini gathered science until the end. The plunge” ensures Saturn’s moons will remain pristine for future exploration. During Cassini’s final days, mission team members from all around the world gathered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to celebrate the achievements of this historic mission.
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Sustainable Flight Demonstrator Project Announcement. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson holds a model of an aircraft with a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing during a news conference on NASAs Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington, DC. Through a Funded Space Act Agreement, The Boeing company and its industry team will collaborate with NASA to develop and flight-test a full-scale Transonic Truss-Braced Wing demonstrator aircraft.
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Daniel Glavin, OSIRIS-REx co-investigator at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, talks to social media followers during a NASA Social in the Operations Support Building II at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The presentation took place before launch of the agencys Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
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Date: 07-26-12Location: Bldg 2, Press Conf. RoomSubject: Expedition 34 press conference with crew members Novitskiy, Tarelkin and Kevin Ford
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Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin speaks to members of the news media during a preview of the new Destination: Mars experience at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Destination: Mars gives guests an opportunity to visit” several sites on Mars using real imagery from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover. Based on OnSight, a tool created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the experience brings guests together with a holographic version of Aldrin as they are guided to Mars using Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality headset.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --  Former astronaut Story Musgrave speaks to students and faculty from across the nation gathered at the KSC Visitor Complex for this year's NASA MarsPort Engineering Design Student Competition 2002 conference.   The participants are presenting papers on engineering trade studies to design optimal configurations for a MarsPort Deployable Greenhouse for operation on the surface of Mars.  Judges in the competition were from KSC, Dynamac Corporation and Florida Institute of Technology.   The winning team's innovative ideas will be used by NASA to evaluate and study other engineering trade concepts. Featured at the opening ceremony were Dr. Sam Durrance, FSGC director and former astronaut, and Dr. Gary Stutte, plant scientist, Dynamac Corporation.
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Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, gives opening remarks at an event to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the launch of the Voyager 1 and 2 missions, Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Voyager 1 was launched September 5, 1977, with a mission to study Jupiter and Saturn, but now the twin Voyager spacecrafts are on a journey into interstellar space to search for the heliopause, a region never reached by any other spacecraft.
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Ralph Basilio, project manager for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory participates in a post-launch news conference at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California following the successful launch of the satellite.Liftoff of OCO-2 from Space Launch Complex 2 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket was on schedule at 5:56 a.m. EDT on July 2 following the repair of the pad's water suppression system, which failed on the first launch attempt July 1.  OCO-2 is NASAs first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earths climate. OCO-2 will provide a new tool for understanding the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural "sinks" that absorb carbon dioxide and help control its buildup. The observatory will measure the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their chan
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Charles Miller talks during a media briefing to discuss the upcoming Orbiting Carbon Observatory mission, the first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine holds up the patch of the 2017 astronaut class during a live episode of the Administrator's monthly chat show, Watch This Space,  Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 in the Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA's newest astronaut candidate class has started their two years of training, after which the new astronaut candidates could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on deep space missions on NASAs new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket.
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Tom Hoffman, InSight Project Manager, NASA JPL, center, talks with other Mars InSight team members during a post-landing press conference, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.
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Frank Webb, GRACE-FO project scientist at JPL, discusses the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission during a prelaunch media briefing, Monday, May 21, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The twin GRACE-FO spacecraft will measure changes in how mass is redistributed within and among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land and ice sheets, as well as within Earth itself.
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Jeff Volosin, TESS project manager, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, holds a model of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during a media briefing, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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NASA commentator Derrol Nail, at left, talks with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson during the Artemis I launch countdown inside Firing Room 1 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 3, 2022. Launch of the agencys Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft from Kennedys Launch Complex 39B was waved off due to an issue during tanking. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -  At the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Apollo astronaut Charlie Duke shares his experiences with spectators crowd gathered for NASA's 40th Anniversary of Apollo Celebration of the July 1969 launch and landing on the moon.  Duke served as lunar module pilot on Apollo 16 in 1972.  He and astronaut John Young set a record of 72 hours and 14 minutes on the lunar surface.
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Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana attends a meeting of the National Space Council inside the Apollo/Saturn V Center at the Kennedy Visitor Complex in Florida on Dec. 9, 2020. The council's role is to advise the president regarding national space policy and strategy and to review the nation's long-range goals for space activities. Vice President Mike Pence chaired the meeting, at which he announced the initial team of 18 astronauts eligible for early Artemis missions on and around the Moon. Under the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024.
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New Horizons project scientist Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory speaks about the Kuiper Belt during an overview of the New Horizons Mission, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Richard Fitzgerald, Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, project manager at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, M.D., participates in a postlaunch news conference at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site in Florida. The RBSP spacecraft launched atop a United Launch Alliance, or ULA, Atlas V rocket at 4:05 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. RBSP will explore changes in Earth's space environment caused by the sun -- known as "space weather" -- that can disable satellites, create power-grid failures and disrupt GPS service. The mission also will provide data on the fundamental radiation and particle acceleration processes throughout the universe.
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NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Post-Launch News Conference. Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general of JAXAs (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, participates in a postlaunch news conference for NASAs SpaceX Crew-5 mission inside the News Auditorium at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 5, 2022. SpaceXs Dragon Endurance is carrying NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, commander; Josh Cassada, pilot; and Mission Specialists Koichi Wakata, of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program. SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at noon EDT from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A.
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NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate William Gerstenmaier speaks at the opening of an industry forum on the agency's lunar exploration plans, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The agency will work with industry to study and refine the approach to landing on the Moon, which includes a system of three separate elements that will provide astronauts transportation, landing, and safe return.
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Nuclear Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022 Conference
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Apollo 17 50th Anniversary Celebration. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson delivers remarks during an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, at the National Academies of Science in Washington. The three-astronaut crew of Apollo 17 - commander Eugene Cernan, lunar module pilot Harrison Schmitt, and command module pilot Ronald Evans, embarked on the last mission of the Apollo program to land humans on the Moon in December of 1972. Cernan and Schmitt spent three days on the lunar surface collecting samples and performing scientific experiments before lifting off from the Taurus-Littrow Valley on December 14, 1972.
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Former Congressman John Culberson gives remarks after having received the NASA Distinguished Public Service medal, which is NASAs highest award for a non-NASA individual, by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, in Washington.
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JSC2001-E-04137 (7 February 2001) ---Astronaut Gerhard P.J. Thiele, representing the European Space Agency,monitors information from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on STS-98 launch day.Thiele serves as spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) in the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center (MCC).
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