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NASA Launches “Mars To Table” Challenge To Build Earth-Independent Food Systems For Deep Space

NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on long-duration Moon and Mars missions.
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NASA moon mission contender has surprisingly deep Flagstaff roots

When NASA looks for people to send toward the Moon, the search often leads through the high desert of Northern Arizona. The latest contender, geologist and astronaut candidate Lauren Edgar, is not just passing through that landscape,

NASA forced to delay return to the Moon after major problem during 'wet dress rehearsal'

The Artemis II mission hit a delay after a major problem during a 'wet dress rehearsal', with NASA looking at putting back the launch date.
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover completes its first AI-planned drive

During the demonstration, NASA engineers used vision-language models, or VLMs, to create waypoints on Mars for Perseverance.
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NASA’s Hubble sparks viral buzz with bird-shaped illusion in deep space

A very rare and beautiful occurrence of two galaxies has again made headlines with the re-emergence of a picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on the social media platform X. The