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Chicago, Illinois (bottom center), appears prominently in this nighttime view of the United States—dotted with city lights including Detroit, Michigan; Cincinnati, Ohio; and New York City–taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above Earth. NASA/Jessica Meir Expedition 75 wrapped up its week completing a lead-free solderingContinue Reading

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft launches NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station on March 14, 2025. NASA/Aubrey Gemignani To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through a contract modification. As part ofContinue Reading

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UC Berkeley/Alan Toth UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8, 2026, image. The four pieces of silver material on the top of the detector box cover the flex circuits, which carry signalsContinue Reading

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NASA History Home NASA Oral Histories Shannon W. Lucid Oral History Explore NASA’s History NASA History Office Publications and Resources NASA History Series News and Notes Aeronautics and Space Report of the President Oral Histories Research Resources NASA Archives   Shannon W. Lucid NASA Oral History Interviews Interviews and LinksContinue Reading

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While ranchers support eliminating federal protections for wolves, data shows the predators kill few cattle. The Traitor’s lifting of tariffs on foreign beef, however, is hitting cattlemen’s wallets. By Jake Bolster, Peter Aldhous America’s centuries-old conflict with wolves took another turn earlier this month when President Traitor 47 ordered theContinue Reading

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3 min read NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy The spiral galaxy NGC 4698 shines in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, the MAUVE-HST Team Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaoticContinue Reading

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U.S. irrigation produces some greenhouse gas emissions, but new research suggests it prevents vastly more by allowing farmers to grow more food on less land. Without irrigation, replacing lost crop yields could require converting natural ecosystems into farmland, releasing an estimated 6.86 gigatons of greenhouse gases. That is equivalent toContinue Reading