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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Astronaut Returns to Houston
https://blogs.nasa.gov/blog/2024/10/26/nasas-spacex-crew-8-astronaut-returns-to-houston/
Published: October 26, 2024 17:35
After an overnight stay at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Florida, the NASA astronaut was released and returned to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Saturday. The crew member is in good health and will resume normal post-flight reconditioning…
NASA Provides Update on Agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 Health
https://blogs.nasa.gov/blog/2024/10/25/nasa-provides-update-on-agencys-spacex-crew-8-health/
Published: October 25, 2024 17:37
After safely splashing down on Earth as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission Friday, a NASA astronaut experienced a medical issue. NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin were flown…
Fireball lights up the sky over Salt Lake City
https://blogs.nasa.gov/blog/2022/08/18/fireball-lights-up-the-sky-over-salt-lake-city/
Published: August 18, 2022 18:33
A bright meteor flew through the skies over northern Utah on Saturday morning, later raining down meteorites over the Great Salt Lake. Residents of the Salt Lake City area were startled by loud booms at 8:30 a.m. MDT on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022.…
Saturn to Reach Opposition Aug. 14
https://blogs.nasa.gov/blog/2022/08/10/saturn-to-reach-opposition-aug-14/
Published: August 10, 2022 14:16
Saturn will have one of its best viewing opportunities of the year in the period surrounding Sunday, Aug. 14. Or it would, if the nearly Full Moon doesn’t spoil our fun. On that date, Saturn will reach opposition – the point where it lies directly opposite…
Perseids Meteor Shower on the Way
https://blogs.nasa.gov/blog/2022/08/01/perseids-meteor-shower-on-the-way/
Published: August 1, 2022 19:23
The Perseids are back! Well… sort of. Usually bringing one of the most vivid annual meteor showers visible in Earth’s night sky, commonly delivering 50-100 “shooting stars” per hour at its height, the Perseids will peak Aug. 12 and 13. There’s just one…
Meet IXPE Scientist Abel Lawrence Peirson
https://blogs.nasa.gov/blog/2022/07/11/meet-ixpe-scientist-abel-lawrence-peirson/
Published: July 11, 2022 20:56
Artificial intelligence (AI) has led Abel Lawrence Peirson to all kinds of interesting places. He’s used AI techniques to examine brain activity in flies and other neuroscience applications. With the help of AI, he’s even trained a neural network to create…
Meteor Showers to Bookend Overnight Skywatching Opportunities in May
https://blogs.nasa.gov/blog/2022/05/03/meteor-showers-to-bookend-overnight-skywatching-opportunities-in-may/
Published: May 3, 2022 19:17
As the spring season continues, May could prove to be of great interest for stargazers and space enthusiasts – with a pair of potentially active meteor showers opening and closing the month. “Meteors aren’t uncommon,” Bill Cooke said, who leads NASA’s…
Loud fireball spotted over southern Mississippi mostly heard, hardly seen
https://blogs.nasa.gov/blog/2022/04/28/loud-fireball-spotted-over-southern-mississippi-mostly-heard-hardly-seen/
Published: April 28, 2022 15:06
A fiery meteor streaked across the morning skies in southern Mississippi yesterday on April 27, 2022. More than 30 eyewitnesses in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi reported seeing a bright fireball at 8:03 a.m. CDT. The sighting was soon…
NASA Celebrates Earth Day: How NASA Benefits Our Home
https://blogs.nasa.gov/blog/2022/04/22/nasa-celebrates-earth-day-how-nasa-benefits-our-home/
Published: April 22, 2022 14:42
No matter where you are located on this globe, we all have one thing in common – we all call planet Earth our home! Earth provides humanity with everything we need to survive. Earth Day is a time to acknowledge what we can do to help our planet. With more…
Mars-Saturn, Jupiter-Venus Conjunctions Happening This Month!
https://blogs.nasa.gov/blog/2022/04/01/mars-saturn-jupiter-venus-conjunctions-happening-this-month/
Published: April 1, 2022 18:18
Skywatchers, you have the opportunity to see not just one, but two planetary conjunctions during the month of April 2022! A conjunction is a celestial event in which two planets, a planet and the Moon, or a planet and a star appear close together in…