The research has implications for NASA’s goals to build a base on the moon and eventually conduct crewed missions to Mars.
The reactors will be used to support NASA's moon research and future missions to Mars, according to the announcement Tuesday.
ISS research over 25 years shows how humans adapt biologically, medically, and technologically to space, informing future missions and scientific understanding of life beyond Earth.
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Jan. 13, 1920: The New York Times doubts spaceflight
In 1959, NASA posthumously named the Goddard Space Flight Center in honor of Robert Goddard's lifetime of work in rocketry, ...
Spaceflight takes a physical toll on astronauts, causing muscles to atrophy, bones to thin and bodily fluids to shift.
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NASA and Harvard experts clash over whether interstellar 3I/ATLAS is 'alien scout' — here's why
When the unusual object 3I/ATLAS first entered our cosmic neighbourhood in July 2025, it didn't just appear on telescopes — ...
On the other were two more figures in space suits, with the tiniest Stars and Stripes planted in the lunar soil. Cruz ...
Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...
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