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This Month in NASA History: Gemini IX-A Overcomes

Astronauts struggled with EVA unit and docking target during three-day mission overshadowed by pre-launch accident.

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Podcast Episode 155: Risk Management at NASA

Big or small, we all take risks nearly every day. But how does NASA manage it? Dr. Mary Skow, NASA’s first agency risk management officer, explains.

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NASA’s Robust Risk Management Approach Enables Engineers to Address Challenges

Continuous, integrated risk management process enables NASA to develop missions with complex, state-of-the-art engineering systems designed to achieve ambitious science objectives.

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SPHEREx, an anagram for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, will create a map of the cosmos like no other. Using a technique called spectroscopy to image the entire sky in 102 wavelengths of infrared light, SPHEREx will gather information about the composition of and distance to millions of galaxies and stars. Learn more about SPHEREx

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems

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