Space & Aviation
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At Home in Space presents the challenges and benefits of a permanent human presence in low Earth orbit. The knowledge gained from the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs informs where we go next and what we do there. The ability to launch,. Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
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At the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, surround yourself with the planes and spacecraft that set records, charted new courses, and made history.
How far apart are the planets—and how big are they compared with one another? In this episode of On Air, Marty and Beth demonstrate a great classroom activity designed to help students visualize distances and relative planet sizes.
Operation Mincemeat is a hit Broadway musical, and it's based on a remarkable true mission that saved hundreds of lives and helped win World War II. This musical has everything you could want in a screwball comedy: spies, dead bodies, and more.
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An eerie structure resembling a ghostly figure has been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Nancy Roman Space Telescope are revealing the universe’s earliest chapters in extraordinary detail.
The gas orbiting Sagittarius A (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, is rich in metals, researchers at McGill University’s Trottier Space Institute have found.