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The Payload Operations Integration Center at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, enhances collaboration and enables the ground team to efficiently help the International Space Station crew and researchers around the world perform cutting-edge science in the unique environment of low Earth orbit. Credit: NASA Host Andres Almeida: Every experiment and scientificContinue Reading

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The Flight Dynamics Research Facility, located at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is the agency’s first major wind tunnel built in more than 40 years. NASA/Mark Knopp Media are invited to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, July 31, to attend a media tour andContinue Reading

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A beauty salon in Kyiv, Ukraine has had severed pig heads dumped at its entrance after publicly supporting LGBTQ+ people. The attack on the G.Bar salon on Lesi Ukrainky Boulevard took place on 21 July, the chain’s management said on Instagram (WARNING – the Instagram post features graphic images). G.BarContinue Reading

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Following its liftoff from Cape Canaveral on July 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) hosting the NASA-supported Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload is now en route to geosynchronous Earth orbit, where it will use its advanced robotics to service spacecraft. RSGS leveragesContinue Reading

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Darryl Gaines  Acting Deputy Director, Exploration Architecture Integration and Science Directorate Darryl Gaines currently serves as acting deputy director of the Exploration Architecture Integration and Science Directorate at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where he leads efforts in mission planning, architecture development, systems engineering, and science activities for the Artemis program. Gaines has more than 35 years of experience managing and leading aeronautics and human spaceflight programs and projects.   Gaines’ career began at McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company in St. Louis, before joiningContinue Reading

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The Roscosmos Soyuz MS 28 spacecraft is pictured in November 2025 shortly after docking to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module. Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev are wrapping up their 241‑day mission aboard the International Space Station. The crew and itsContinue Reading

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For decades, Renée Jacobs has been fighting for LGBTQ+ visibility. Before she became an internationally recognized photographer, she was helping shape queer legal history as a civil rights and constitutional litigator, bringing some of the earliest gay rights cases in the United States. Today, her newest photography collection, Dreams fromContinue Reading