Happy 65 Years: NASA’s Johnson Space Center Then and Now
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Sixty-five years ago, a bold vision took root in Houston: a NASA center dedicated to human spaceflight. Since its founding, NASA’s Johnson Space Center has helped lead the nation’s human spaceflight program, supporting missions from Project Mercury thr...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:35 +0000
TB 26-09 Measured Hammer-Tap Inputs
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For more information, contact Joel W. Sills, Langley Research Center, joel.w.sills@nasa.gov. Download the PDF version An instrumented hammer test does not require an idealized single half-sine waveform. When the complete force and response are measured acc...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:47 +0000
The JWST May Have Found Where Heavy Black Hole Seeds Formed
Reported by Universe Today
Astrophysicists think that black holes grow through a hierarchical merger framework. But the elusive Intermediate Mass Black Holes are the missing link between stellar mass black holes, and the gargantuan supermassive black holes like the one at the center...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:28 +0000
NASA’s CHAPEA Crew “Returns” to Earth
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The four-member Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) crew poses outside for the first time in more than a year following the end of their simulated Mars journey on Oct. 31, 2026. Crew members Matthew Montgomery (left), James Spicer (midd...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 18:50 +0000
What’s Up: November 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
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Meteor Showers, a Spacecraft Milestone, and a Supermoon Catch Taurid and Leonid meteors, spot Mars near Jupiter, celebrate Voyager 1’s light-day milestone, and watch November’s supermoon. Skywatching Highlights Transcript A month of meteor showers … ...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 18:19 +0000
Researchers May Have Solved a Puzzling Contradiction in the Ryugu Sample
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Samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and from carbonaceous chondrites that have crashed on Earth, present an apparent contradiction. Their fine-grained matrices have widely varied compositions of their clay-like minerals. That suggests that there were widely d...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 18:08 +0000