Editor’s note: Right now NASA is planning the spacesuit and sensor technology needed for astronauts to operate during prolonged AwayTeam sorties to study astrogeology on the lunar surface. While the […]
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Offworld Away Team Practice For Astronauts
Editor’s note: the procedures, new advanced spacesuits, analytical instruments, imaging and communications gear, and other tools associated with Artemis activities on the lunar surface will directly impact the capabilities that […]
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NASA Offworld Away Team Training In Arizona
To prepare for exploring the Moon during NASA’s Artemis campaign, the agency is conducting a week-long field test in the lunar-like landscape of San Francisco Volcanic Field near Flagstaff, Arizona […]
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Tricorder Tech: Astronaut Kate Rubins Uses ESA’s Electronic FieldBook Microscope
NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins as she produces science documentation using of the Electronic FieldBook (EFB) and associated science instruments.
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Offworld Genomics Research On the ISS: Studying DNA in Space
Long-term space exploration exposes humans to radiation that can damage deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA, which carries the genetic information for our development and functioning. Conditions in space also affect the […]
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Tricorder Tech: Astronaut Kate Rubins Uses ESA’s Electronic FieldBook Microscope In A Cave
NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins performing detailed analyses with the EFB-associated microscope.
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Tricorder Tech: Kate Rubins Practices Away Team Skills With ESA’s Electronic FieldBook Microscope
A close-up view of NASA astronaut Kate Rubins as she analyzes images from the microscope associated with the ESA Electronic FieldBook (EFB) to better recognize minerals contained in rocks outcropping […]
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Space Biologists Thora Halstead and Ken Souza Honored Aboard The International Space Station
A small plant growth chamber orbiting in space was remotely dedicated in Cleveland Saturday evening. At the annual meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) it […]