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The first color image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, taken by the News Horizons spacecraft when it was still 71 million miles away. Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
New Horizons Prepares to Reveal a New World

After traveling more than 3 billion miles through space, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is the first mission to explore the farthest reaches of the solar system.

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One of the final images to be sent back from MESSENGER, this April 16 image depicts the ejecta blanket of a newly formed impact crater. MESSENGER has sent back more than 250,000 images over the course of its mission. Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
MESSENGER Mission Ends But Its Value Lives On

NASA’s Mercury orbiter is completely out of fuel. But that hasn’t stopped it from returning groundbreaking data about the innermost planet.

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The XB-70 Air Vehicle 1 using drag chutes to slow down after landing. Photo Credit: NASA/Air Force
This Month in NASA History: NASA Took Over the Valkyrie Program

On April 25, 1967, the XB-70—a high-altitude supersonic long-range bomber—flew under the NASA banner for the first time.

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James Van Laak talks with Training Specialist Travis Millner and participants in APPEL’s Foundations of Aerospace at NASA course about some of his experiences during his successful career at the agency. Photo Credit: NASA APPEL/Donna Wilson
Succeeding at NASA: From Concept to Reality

James Van Laak, former Operations Manager for the International Space Station (ISS), shared hard-earned wisdom with APPEL’s Foundations of Aerospace course participants.

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Workers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida accompany shuttle Atlantis as it is towed back to its processing hangar after landing at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility, completing its 13-day mission to the International Space Station and the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
My Best Mistake: Dan Keenan’s “Where Journeys Begin”

Anyone who has ever had the courage to go out into the world and do something knows there are only two kinds of mistakes: ones we can recover from and ones we cannot recover from.

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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly preparing for the One-Year Mission in a soyuz simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Two Men. One Year. The Future of Human Spaceflight.

On March 27, 2015, two spaceflight veterans blasted off for a year in low Earth orbit (LEO) that will ultimately help humans travel to Mars.

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Artist’s concept of an astronaut conducting a spacewalk from Orion to examine the boulder obtained during the Asteroid Redirect Mission. Image Credit NASA
Asteroid Redirect Mission Charts a Path Leading Toward Mars

NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) recently identified a boulder as the ideal stepping stone in the journey to Mars.

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ISS Expedition 42 came to an end on March 11, 2015, as the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan. The mission included a focus on human health management for long-duration spaceflight. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Human Risk Evaluation Supports Deep Space Exploration

In preparation for missions beyond low Earth orbit (LEO), NASA has enlisted the Institute of Medicine to examine reports of human spaceflight risks.

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Knowledge 2020 Conference
Second Knowledge 2020 Conference to be Held at Johnson Space Center

NASA’s Chief Knowledge Officers (CKO), NASA knowledge community, and project and program practitioners are invited to a unique knowledge sharing conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC), April 27 – 29, 2015.

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