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Australia’s Cloudy Beauty
Valley fog gathered in the Victorian Alps while an arch-shaped cloud drifted across Port Phillip Bay.
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4886-4892: Ingenuity and Perseverance, Curiosity Style
Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator Earth planning date: Friday, May 8, 2026 While we know the monikers Ingenuity and Perseverance are attached to our sister helicopter and rover on the Mars 2020 mission, those characteristics were in full force with Curiosity over the past week. The science we achieved this week was […]
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NASA’s Curiosity Takes Close Look at Rock That Got Stuck on Drill
Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of a rock nicknamed “Atacama” on May 6, 2026, the 4,877th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rock had gotten stuck to the drill on the end of Curiosity’s robotic arm on April 25. Engineers spent several days […]
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May 2026 Satellite Puzzler
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
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Launch Preview: SpaceX and Chinese missions fill busy launch manifest
The week of May 11 brings nine launches across the United States and China, spanning… The post Launch Preview: SpaceX and Chinese missions fill busy launch manifest appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-172
SpaceX Mission Type Government/Top Secret
Orbit Unknown
Pad Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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Long March 6A | Unknown Payload
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Mission Type Unknown
Orbit Unknown
Pad Launch Complex 9A, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-34
SpaceX Mission Type Resupply
Orbit Low Earth Orbit
Pad Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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SpaceX CRS-34 Prelaunch Media Teleconference
Press Event
Prelaunch media teleconference with the following participants: - Bill Spetch, operations and integration manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program - Dr. Liz Warren, deputy chief scientist, NASA’s International Space Station Program - Lee Echerd, senior mission manger, Government and Commercial Mission Management, SpaceX - Brian Cizek, launch weather officer, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron
SpaceX CRS-34 Dragon Docking
Docking
Following its launch atop a Falcon 9, the CRS-34 Dragon will autonomously dock to the ISS, bringing crew supplies as well as experiments.
US EVA-95
EVA
Two astronauts will replace a high-definition camera on camera port 3, install a new navigational aid for visiting spacecraft, called a planar reflector, on the Harmony module’s forward port, and relocate an early ammonia servicer jumper — a flexible hose assembly that connects parts of a fluid system — along with other jumpers on the station’s S6 and S4 truss.
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International Space Station
Founded: 1998-11-20
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its first component was launched into orbit in 1998, with the first long-term residents arriving in November 2000. It has been inhabited continuously since that date. The last pressurised module was fitted in 2011, and an experimental inflatable space habitat was added in 2016. The station is expected to operate until 2030. Development and assembly of the station continues, with several new elements scheduled for launch in 2019. The ISS is the largest human-made body in low Earth orbit and can often be seen with the naked eye from Earth. The ISS consists of pressurised habitation modules, structural trusses, solar arrays, radiators, docking ports, experiment bays and robotic arms. ISS components have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets, and American Space Shuttles.
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Mir
Founded: 1986-02-20
Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. The station served as a microgravity research laboratory in which crews conducted experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology and spacecraft systems with a goal of developing technologies required for permanent occupation of space.
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Skylab
Founded: 1973-05-14
Skylab was a United States space station launched and operated by NASA, and occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974 – the only space station the U.S. has operated exclusively. In 1979 it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Skylab included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems necessary for crew survival and scientific experiments. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket, with a weight of 170,000 pounds (77,000 kg). Lifting Skylab into low earth orbit was the final mission and launch of a Saturn V rocket (famous for carrying the manned Moon landing missions). Three missions delivered three-astronaut crews in the Apollo command and service module (Apollo CSM), launched by the smaller Saturn IB rocket. For the final two manned missions to Skylab, a backup Apollo CSM/Saturn IB was assembled and made ready in case an in-orbit rescue mission was needed, but this backup vehicle was never flown.
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