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And conducting high-flying science during the recent solar eclipse…Prelaunch Activities Underway for Commercial Crew Flight TestTeams recently moved the Starliner from Kennedy to nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in preparation for launch. Liftoff is scheduled for no earlier than Monday, May 6.
For Earth Day, NASA wanted everyone to share the planet from their point of view. Need an idea of what kind of picture to take? Get outside and show us mountains, parks, the sky, rivers, lakes – and you! Wherever you are, there’s your picture. Credit: NASAFor Earth Day, NASA invited people around the world to take selfies and share them on social media as part of NASA’s Global Selfie event. NASA’s worldwide celebration of Earth Day also included online resources at nasa.gov/earthday.
A team from NASA’s Langley Research Center was in Fort Drum, N.Y. during the April 8 total solar eclipse with a specially modified Alta X Uncrewed Aircraft System, or UAS. The aircraft was used to study changes in the Sun’s radiation during the solar event. The UAS also collects data on temperature, relative humidity, pressure, and wind, so it is also being tested as an alternative to using traditional weather balloons, which are typically not recovered once they are released.
Artist’s impression of Dragonfly soaring over the dunes of Saturn’s moon Titan. NASA has authorized the mission team to proceed on development toward a July 2028 launch date. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben. The rotorcraft, targeted to arrive at Titan in 2034, will fly to dozens of promising locations on the moon, looking for prebiotic chemical processes common on both Titan and early Earth before life developed here.
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