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NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 34th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station

NASA 16 May 2026
The 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission under contract with NASA is headed to the International Space Station with new scientific experiments after NASA home page.
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NASA refines Artemis III flight details for next year

Decatur Daily 16 May 2026
NASA announced it would forgo using the same Decatur-built United Launch Alliance upper stage used on the first two Artemis flights for next year’s Artemis III mission since it won’t be heading to the moon ... .
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Offensive lineman Spencer Rolland takes unique path from Harvard to NASA to Battlehawks

St Louis Post-Dispatch 16 May 2026
"I want to help get this team where it's playing the best it can at the right time," Rollins said ... .
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft is flying to a metal asteroid. So, why did it just visit Mars?

Space 16 May 2026
NASA's Psyche flyby of Mars highlights how gravity assists help spacecraft gain speed, conserve fuel and travel across the solar system ....
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Youth Voices: For NASA, this team of 8 freshmen girls from Beaverton’s Sunset High School ...

The Oregonian 16 May 2026
In a classroom at Sunset High School in Beaverton, a group of freshmen congregate most days after school, racing against the clock to finish their entry in a prestigious NASA competition for teens ....
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NASA reveals new clues to 2027’s Artemis III, the final test mission before a moon landing

Scientific American 16 May 2026
NASA is starting to paint in some of the details of its planned 2027 Artemis III mission, but key questions, such as who its astronauts will be, are yet to be answered ... .
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NASA, SpaceX launch new resupply mission to int'l space station

China.dot.org 16 May 2026
LOS ANGELES, May 15 (Xinhua) -- NASA and SpaceX launched a new commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday ... The mission marks the 34th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the ISS for NASA.
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New 250-watt nuclear generator could fuel future NASA Uranus orbiter missions

Interesting Engineering 16 May 2026
NASA could soon gain a more powerful energy source for missions far beyond Mars after a next-generation nuclear space generator cleared a major development milestone ... The new generator could begin powering NASA deep-space missions in the early 2030s.
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NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean

Futurism 16 May 2026
NASA satellites are tracking an intriguing patch of colored plumes in the waters off the US’s Mid-Atlantic coast ... Diatom-dominated blooms tend to happen in the spring and look greenish in natural-color satellite imagery, according to NASA.
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NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that ...

SpaceDaily 16 May 2026
NASA still runs the Voyagers on software written in a programming language nobody alive can read, kept going by a handful of engineers all in their eighties, with no one queued up to replace them.
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NASA just put a 30-day clock on a $700 million Mars contract, and the deadline ...

SpaceDaily 16 May 2026
NASA’s Mars relay infrastructure is dying, and the agency just put a 30-day clock on finding a replacement ... NASA is racing against time before its existing relay orbiters at Mars go dark. Why NASA Is Panicking.
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See photos of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching cargo to ISS from Florida

Florida Today 16 May 2026
After two weather-triggered scrubs earlier this week, NASA and SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket under ideal sunny conditions Friday, May 15, during a dinnertime cargo-resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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