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This artist’s illustration shows NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration relaying a laser communication signal to a ground station on Earth. Optical communications systems promise dramatic increases in data transfer rates. Credit: NASA
Demonstration Mission to Test Laser Communications
December 27, 2021 // by

Bidirectional system offers significant increase in data transfer rates.

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This spiral galaxy, M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, has come into much sharper focus as centuries of innovation in telescopes has revealed increasing levels of detail. Credit: NASA
Flagship Telescopes Reveal the Unexpected
December 13, 2021 // by

Astronomers will use Webb to continue the long search for early galaxies.

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Thirteen tons of telescopes and support equipment occupy the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia for mission STS-35, the first shuttle mission dedicated entirely to astronomy. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: 13 Tons of Telescopes
December 6, 2021 // by

STS-35 was the first mission devoted exclusively to astronomy.

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The sunshield on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, shown here stacked and expanded in a cleanroom in the Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, California, will be folded up during launch and deploy in space. Credit: NASA
Webb’s Deployments Most Complex Ever Attempted
November 24, 2021 // by

Observatory will unfold massive sunshield, mirror in space.

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With the Orion spacecraft secured atop the powerful Space Launch System, NASA has finished stacking and integrating the components of the Artemis I mission inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA
Artemis I Undergoing Final Rounds of Testing
November 15, 2021 // by

Team preparing massive rocket for wet dress rehearsal.

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At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers tow the space shuttle orbiter Columbia from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: Columbia Returns to Space
November 8, 2021 // by

Crew of STS-2 works through the night on shortened mission.

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This artist’s illustration depicts the Lucy spacecraft passing one of the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids. Lucy will travel 4 billion miles in 12 years, passing by seven of these asteroids, believed to be remnants from the formation of the planets. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
Pioneering Spacecraft Bound for Jupiter Trojan Asteroids
October 26, 2021 // by

Lucy will travel ambitious trajectory to examine remnants from the early solar system. 

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European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano took this "space-selfie" during an extravehicular activity (EVA) at the International Space Station (ISS) in 2019. Six years earlier, Parmitano’s helmet dangerously filled with water during an EVA at the ISS. Credit: NASA
Investigation of EVA 23 Resonates at PK Expo
October 18, 2021 // by

High-visibility close call yields timeless lessons learned.

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An NB-52 mothership carries an X-15 aloft for a research flight on April 13, 1960, Maj. Gen. Robert M. White's first flight in the hypersonic rocket plane. The X-15s reached speeds well beyond 4,000 mph and altitudes that qualified eight pilots for astronaut wings. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: The X-15 Lands
October 8, 2021 // by

Rocket plane pushed the boundaries of aeronautics at dawn of the space race.

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