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Three MIT Alumni Graduate From NASA Astronaut Training

March 8, 2024

Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12, now eligible for spaceflight assignments, encourage MIT students to apply for the next astronaut class. Sandi Miller | Department of…

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With Psyche, A Journey To An Ancient Asteroid Is Set To Begin

October 13, 2023

The NASA mission, a project with deep roots at MIT, is setting course for a metallic space rock that could be the remnant of a planetary core like our own.…

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Autonomous systems need to be reliable, so NASA puts the code it develops through rigorous testing, like this Artemis I launch countdown training simulation, to avoid potential failures.

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NASA Software Catalog Offers Free Programs for Earth Science, More

August 10, 2023

Autonomous systems need to be reliable, so NASA puts the code it develops through rigorous testing, like this Artemis I launch countdown training simulation, to avoid potential failures.Credits: NASA Each…

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Most Americans Support NASA – But Don’t Think It Should Prioritize Sending People To Space

August 6, 2023

The Artemis I Launch in November 2022. NASA/Bill Ingalls, CC BY-NC Mariel Borowitz, Georgia Institute of Technology and Teasel Muir-Harmony, Georgetown University Most Americans (69%) believe it is essential that…

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5 Moon-Landing Innovations That Changed Life On Earth

July 25, 2019

Much of the technology common in daily life today originates from the drive to put a human being on the Moon. This effort reached its pinnacle when Neil Armstrong stepped…

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The Dream Of Living On Other Worlds

July 15, 2019

The idea of living on the Moon, Mars or an even more distant planet has long captured our imagination. When facts are in short supply, fiction thrives – but science…

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