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NASA Engineers Activate Thrusters On Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Extending Its Mission Further Beyond Our Solar System
When it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...
OTD In Space - November 9: Saturn V Launches On Maiden Voyage With Apollo 4
On 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall. That's ...
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Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring
NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
Watch Nasa drone that will visit nearby moon in hunt for alien life in ‘unthinkable’ trip to ‘mysterious ocean world’
NASA is planning to send a drone to a nearby moon that will hunt for alien life. The Dragonfly probe will explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – around 745 million miles from Earth. That ...
55 Years Of Apollo 12: When NASA Rocket Got Struck By Lightning Twice Seconds After Launch
NASA has marked the 55th anniversary of Apollo 12 - world's second manned mission to the Moon. Astronauts Charles "Pete" ...
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What’s Up: November 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.
The Icy Crust of Saturn’s Moon Titan Could Be Hiding Secrets to Our World and Life Beyond It
A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...
NASA’s monthly skywatching tips include a rare lunar occultation
NASA has just released its monthly tips for what to look out for in the sky during November. There are several planets that ...
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Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...
NASA’s Voyager Shuts Down Plasma Sensor After 47 Years of Discovery
After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off.
Nasa's Voyager 1 reconnects with scientists 15 billion miles away from Earth
Nasa scientists are celebrating as, after a period of silence, the craft recently called home again using a bit of kit that ...
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Watch Nasa drone that will visit nearby moon in hunt for alien life in ‘unthinkable’ trip to ‘mysterious ocean world’
Dragonfly marks the first time Nasa will fly a vehicle for science on another planetary body. The giant moon Titan – seen here set against Saturn – is even bigger than the planet MercuryCredit ...