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Charles T. Smoot

Charles Smoot was employed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where he began laying the foundation of a cooperative program targeting qualified African American students from universities across the nation. To source

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Two radar eyes are better than one

A novel airborne experiment over the flat agricultural landscape of the Netherlands recently simulated, for the first time, images that could be taken by radar satellites orbiting in tandem. To source

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Exoplanet Tour: Meet the 7 Earth-Size Planets of TRAPPIST-1

By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer | February 23, 2017 06:33am ET Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech TRAPPIST-1: A system full of possibility Astronomers have discovered the first known system to host seven Earth-size planets around one star , and it lies just 39 light-years away from our own solar system. Using data from the TRAPPIST telescope in Chile and other […]

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Straight Out of Sci-Fi: Hoverbike 'Surfs' Through the Air in Test

The hoverbike prototype, dubbed Scorpion-3, is capable of lifting itself and a driver into the air. Credit: Hoversurf/YouTube Think of it as half drone, half motorcycle: A new hoverbike prototype aims to make flying as simple as riding a bike. Hoversurf, a Russian drone startup, recently unveiled its Scorpion-3 hoverbike  in a test- flight video — […]

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Traveling to TRAPPIST-1: How Long Would It Take? | Video

Recommended videos for you Planet Hunter: Spitzer Space Telescope TRAPPI… TRAPPIST-1 System Has 7 Earth-Sized Exoplanet… TRAPPIST-1 Planets Tidally Locked to Star, Ha… TRAPPIST-1 is ‘Most Incredible Star System to… Traveling to TRAPPIST-1: How Long Would It Ta… SpaceX Aborts Space Station Docking Attempt |… Strange Andromeda Galaxy Signal May Have Dark… Monitoring Snow Changes: […]

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Smithsonian to Launch Apollo 11 Columbia Spacecraft on National Tour

The Apollo 11 command module, Columbia, is embarking on a two-year, four city tour in celebration of the mission’s 50th anniversary. “Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission” marks the first time the craft has left the Smithsonian in 46 years. The iconic NASA spacecraft that flew with the first U.S. astronauts to walk on the […]

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White Water: NASA Probes Snow's Effect on Water Resources

No resource on Earth is more precious than water; all life on the planet depends on it to survive. However, only a fraction of Earth’s water, a mere 3 percent, is freshwater, and about 70 percent of that freshwater is inaccessible, locked up in glaciers, ice and permanent snow cover. In fact, both seasonal and […]

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