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Graphic showing the Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast logo featuring a graphic of astronaut leaping from Moon to Mars. The text at top left reads New Podcast Episode. Below is a Listen Now button. At the right third of the image, a bouquet of zinnia flowers appears to float in space. The picture was taken from the space station's cupola, which has windows that face Earth and space. Above the flowers are the words #133: The Science of Space Gardening. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 133: The Science of Space Gardening

Growing vegetables in orbit? We’re doing that. Learn about food crop production in space and potential spinoff benefits for people on Earth.

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Featured Video: Olympics on the International Space Station

NASA’s astronauts are getting into the Olympic spirit. Check out their training montage from space, followed by a message to Earth from astronaut Matt Dominick.

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Featured Video: Edward C. Stone, Explorer. 1936-2024

Edward C. Stone, former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and longtime project scientist of the Voyager mission, passed away on June 9, 2024. He was 88 years old. In this 2018 video, Stone talks about the Voyager 2 spacecraft reaching interstellar space, six years after Voyager 1 reached the same milestone.

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Featured Video: Seeing Exoplanets Like Never Before With the Roman Coronagraph (Instrument Overview)

NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a flagship astrophysics mission, will launch with a very special piece of technology on board that will directly observe exoplanets like never before: the Roman Coronagraph Instrument.

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Featured Video: Success and Preparation

Following the success of Artemis I, human beings will fly around the Moon on Artemis II.

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Featured Video: Spacecraft Makers: Europa Clipper’s Instrument Integration

Europa Clipper is expected to launch in October 2024 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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2017 Solar Eclipse first images from Oregon State Fair Grounds, Salem, Oregon. This image taken at 10:19:24 on August 21, 2017 as Oregon begins to see first light 'diamond' following totality. Photo Credit: NASA/Dominic Hart
Featured Video: Different Ways to Safely View a Solar Eclipse

Do you know how to safely view a solar eclipse? There are more ways than one!

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Kennedy Space Center workers and guests placed flowers at the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida during NASA’s Day of Remembrance on Jan. 26, 2023. Photo Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Featured Video: NASA Day of Remembrance 2024 – Honoring Our Fallen Heroes

NASA remembers the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger STS-51L, and Columbia STS-107 during the agency’s Day of Remembrance on Jan. 25, 2024.

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View of Earth's curved horizon from Space. Photo Credit: NASA
Featured Video: NASA 2023: Nothing is Beyond Our Reach

NASA showed the world that anything is possible in 2023.

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