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With the Artemis missions, NASA intends to create a blueprint for sustained human presence and exploration throughout the solar system. In this artist’s illustration, Artemis astronauts work on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA

April 26, 2023 // by Kevin Wilcox

NASA aims to create a blueprint for sustained human exploration of solar system.

A view of the Perseverance rover drill. NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera on March 7, 2022 (Sol 371) at the local mean solar time of 15:34:26. Credit: NASA

April 5, 2023 // by INSIGHT Staff

Mars Sample Return Deputy Lead Scientist Lindsay Hays discusses plans to bring the first samples of Mars material to Earth.

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover surveys the floor of Jezero Crater on Feb. 5, the 698th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rover began its third year on Mars recently. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Updates from NASA’s Far-flung Missions

March 28, 2023 // by Kevin Wilcox

A unique view of the Sun, gathering Martian dust, and preparing for asteroid samples.

This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Credit: NASA

Podcast Episode 99: Webb Space Telescope’s First Year

December 14, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

NASA James Webb Space Telescope Mission Systems Engineer Mike Menzel discusses highlights of the observatory’s first year in space.

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Video Feature banner showing Moonikin Campos, named after Arturo Campos, that is flying aboard Artemis I, an uncrewed flight test of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Featured Video: NASA’s Artemis I ‘Passengers’

November 1, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

Meet the three “passengers” that are collecting data to help us keep future NASA astronauts safe and understand what they will be experiencing on upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon.

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A full-scale model of the inflated aeroshell for NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) is displayed at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Credit: NASA/David C. Bowman

NASA Prepares for Hypersonic Test of Inflatable Decelerator

October 21, 2022 // by Kevin Wilcox

Technology could transform exploration of Mars, other planets.

Artist's concept of OSAM-1 servicing a satellite in space. Credit: NASA

Podcast Episode 91: OSAM-1

August 24, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

OSAM-1 Lead Systems Engineer Wendy Morgenstern discusses NASA’s On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 mission to robotically refuel a satellite that wasn’t designed to be serviced.

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