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The Dream Chaser spacecraft glides to a landing at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California, following a successful free flight demonstration in 2017. Photo Credit: NASA
Work Continues at KSC on New Spaceplane

Dream Chaser, with roots in a NASA project from the 1990s, will take lifting body design to new heights.

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PIXL, the white instrument mounted on the robotic arm of NASA’s Perseverance Rover, uses a form of artificial intelligence known as adaptive sampling to examine rocks on the surface of Mars. Photo Credit: NASA
Using AI to Advance NASA Missions

Teams are creating AI tools to find new craters on Mars, forecast algae blooms, estimate hurricane intensity, improve weather and climate models, and track the smoke from wildfires.

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The surface of the Moon captured by Lunar Orbiter 3. The Lunar Orbiter program took more than 3,000 images of the Moon, which helped NASA program managers, scientists, and mission managers identify the landing sites for Apollo lunar landings. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: The Lunar Orbiter Missions

A young geologist catalogs thousands of photos of the lunar surface and helps to identify key landing zones for the Apollo program.

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