NASA Announces Media Activities for New Horizons’ New Year’s Kuiper Belt Flyby

NASA Announces Media Activities for New Horizons’ New Year’s Kuiper Belt Flyby

NASA is inviting media to cover the farthest spacecraft flyby in history on Jan. 1, 2019, when the agency’s New Horizons spacecraft encounters the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. Flyby events will take place from Dec. 29 to Jan. 4 at the base of New Horizons operations, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel,

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European-Built Service Module Arrives in U.S. for First Orion Moon Mission

European-Built Service Module Arrives in U.S. for First Orion Moon Mission

The powerhouse that will help NASA’s Orion spacecraft venture beyond the Moon is stateside. The European-built service module that will propel, power and cool during Orion flight to the Moon on Exploration Mission-1 arrived from Germany at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday to begin final outfitting, integration and testing wit

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NASA Leads Urban Air Mobility ‘Grand Challenge’ Discussion with Industry

NASA Leads Urban Air Mobility ‘Grand Challenge’ Discussion with Industry

NASA officials welcomed more than 400 participants with a stake in the future of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) to Seattle last week for a two-day gathering in which the agency presented its plans to host a series of Grand Challenges for the UAM community.

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