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With all the drama of an actual trip to space, guests of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida will be greeted with a dramatic sense of arrival with the new Heroes & Legends, featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, presented by Boeing. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Suddenly, you are Alan Shepard, standing […]

The WorldView-4 satellite and its Atlas V rocket being prepped for liftoff at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A sharp-eyed Earth-observing satellite is launching today (Nov. 11), and you can watch all the spaceflight action live. The WorldView-4 satellite is scheduled to lift off today at 1:30 p.m. EST (1830 GMT) atop a United […]

Maria Mitchell studied navigation and astronomy in the 1800s. She discovered a comet in 1847. Maria Mitchell was a 19th-century astronomer and feminist who is best known for discovering a comet in 1847. Her discovery made her instantly famous and resulted in her being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — the […]

Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered a relationship between the period of a star’s brightness cycle to its absolute magnitude. The discovery made it possible to calculate their distance from Earth; Henrietta Swan Leavitt was a Harvard “computer” — one of several women in the early 1900s who studied photographic plates for fundamental properties of stars. Leavitt […]

Annie Jump Cannon examines a photographic plates of the night sky. She created the stellar classification system still used today. Annie Jump Cannon was a female astronomer best known for coming up with the current system of stellar classification. Her system — ranking stars as O, B, A, F, G, K or M, with “O” […]

On Monday (Nov. 14) at 6:15 a.m. EST, the moon will arrive at its closest point to the Earth in 2016: a distance of 221,524 miles (356,508 kilometers) away. This distance, which is measured from the center of the Earth to the center of the moon, is within 85 miles (137 km) of the moon’s […]

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Marikje Jorritsma, an intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and a master’s student at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, demonstrated JPL-developed programs for Microsoft’s HoloLens headset at an NYU event Nov. 7. Here, she manipulates a technical model of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. NEW YORK — Visitors from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) […]

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