NASA's new laSer tech could revolutionize communication | LiveNOW from FOX
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The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration launched from The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Sunday morning and is tasked with using lasers to communicate in space in Florida this Sunday morning and is tasked with using lasers to communicate in space. LiveNOW from FOX's Rain Augustine speaks to NASA about the mission.

NASA's "Lucy" probe blasts into space | LiveNOW from FOX
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The aircraft started its 12 year journey early Saturday morning, heading towards Jupiter's orbit in order to find more secrets and clues about the history of the solar system.

NASA announces 2 new missions to Venus launching around 2028-2030
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Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator, said the missions would aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world. Credit - NASA via Storyful

Bill Nelson sworn in as NASA administrator | NewsNOW from FOX
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The Senate has confirmed former Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, who once flew on the space shuttle, to be the next NASA administrator. Lawmakers agreed to President Joe Biden?s choice to lead the space agency by consensus late Thursday, without a roll call vote. "I am honored by the President?s nomination and the Senate vote," Nelson said in a statement. "I will try to merit that trust. Onward and upward!" Nelson will become NASA?s 14th administrator, succeeding another former member of Congress, Jim Bridenstine, a Republican from Oklahoma. Nelson currently serves on the NASA Advisory Council. Nelson, 78, grew up near Cape Canaveral and was serving as a Democratic congressman when he launched aboard space shuttle Columbia on Jan. 12, 1986. His commander was Charles Bolden Jr., who later served as NASA administrator under President Barack Obama ? at Nelson?s urging.

Full briefing following successful launch of astronauts to ISS | NewsNOW from FOX
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SpaceX?s Crew-2 is headed for the International Space Station after a successful pre-dawn launch on Friday. The Falcon 9 rocket thundered into the morning sky from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:49 a.m. ET. "I couldn't be more proud of the Commercial Crew Program, and the SpaceX team, and the NASA team and what they've been able to do to enable reliable, safe, effective transportation to and from station," Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk said at a press conference earlier this week. Before the liftoff, NASA tweeted a video of the International Space Station flying over the Kennedy Space Center. The mission marks SpaceX?s third crewed flight in partnership with NASA, following its previous launch Crew-1 and Demo-2 missions. The launch also marks the first time that SpaceX reuses a rocket and a capsule for a mission.

Successful Liftoff: NASA, SpaceX launches 4 astronauts to the International Space Station
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SpaceX?s Crew-2 is headed for the International Space Station after a successful pre-dawn launch on Friday. The Falcon 9 rocket thundered into the morning sky from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:49 a.m. ET. "I couldn't be more proud of the Commercial Crew Program, and the SpaceX team, and the NASA team and what they've been able to do to enable reliable, safe, effective transportation to and from station," Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk said at a press conference earlier this week. The mission marks SpaceX?s third crewed flight in partnership with NASA, following its previous launch Crew-1 and Demo-2 missions. The launch also marks the first time that SpaceX reuses a rocket and a capsule for a mission.

Biden nominates former Sen. Bill Nelson as NASA Head
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The Biden administration has tapped Former Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson to lead NASA. Nelson represented Florida?s Space Coast during his nearly two decades on Capitol Hill, where he was one of the space agency?s most vocal supporters. Nelson, as NASA administrator, will be tasked with leading the agency as it races to return American astronauts to the moon under the Trump-era Artemis program. The White House, last month, said it supports the Artemis Program, which aims to land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024.

NASA, SpaceX launch of the Crew-2 mission to ISS now targeted for Friday | NewsNOW from FOX
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NASA blog, Twitter break the news that the launch of the Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station has been pushed back to Friday, April 23, 2021. NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 5:49 a.m. EDT Friday, April 23, for the launch of the agency?s Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station due to unfavorable weather conditions along the flight path on Thursday. Although conditions around the launch site were expected to be favorable for liftoff, mission teams also must consider conditions along the flight path and recovery area in the unlikely event of a launch escape. For a launch April 23, the U.S. Space Force 45th Weather Squadron predicts a 90% chance of favorable weather conditions at the launch pad for liftoff of the Crew-2 mission based on Falcon 9 Crew Dragon launch weather criteria. Conditions also are expected to improve along the flight path and recovery area for the mission. The primary weather concerns for the launch area will be liftoff winds.

Ingenuity: NASA's first aircraft on Mars
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will make history's first attempt at powered flight on another planet. (Source: NASA)

ULA launch: Mission to Mars
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover into space on Thursday.

What is a solar minimum?
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Astronomers say the star at the center of our solar system goes through a period about every 11 years in which sunspots and solar flare activity diminishes.

Eta Aquarids meteor shower to peak this week
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The meteor shower is expected to peak on the mornings of May 5 and 6, 2020, but will also coincide with a supermoon on May 7.

Katherine Johnson, famed NASA mathematician, dies at 101
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Johnson played a key role in NASA?s voyages to the moon. She helped calculate the trajectory for Alan Shepard?s Freedom 7 mission in 1961.

NASA hiring for its next class of astronauts
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Calling all space lovers - NASA is hiring for its class of Artemis Genesis astronauts.

Photo of sun eclipsed by moon bears uncanny resemblance to 'devil horns'
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The visual phenomenon seen in the photo is the result of the moon eclipsing the sun at the same time that there was an inversion layer of unusually warm air in the Persian Gulf.

Australia's bushfires can be seen from space
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NASA released images showing the devastation from the bushfires burning all over Australia.