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[ad_1] President-elect Joe Biden named members of his NASA transition team on Tuesday. Ellen Stofan, a former NASA chief scientist, will chair the team, which also includes an astrophysicist and a climate researcher. Biden will likely postpone the timeline of NASA’s Artemis moon mission, extend funding for the International Space …

[ad_1] President-elect Joe Biden named members of his NASA transition team on Tuesday. Ellen Stofan, a former NASA chief scientist, will chair the team, which also includes an astrophysicist and a climate researcher. Biden will likely postpone the timeline of NASA’s Artemis moon mission, extend funding for the International Space …

[ad_1] NASA Science will host the community town hall meeting Press release from: NASA Science Mission Directorate Published: Tuesday 10 November 2020 NASA Science Mission Directorate will hold a community town hall meeting with Associate Science Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen and his leadership team at 3:00 PM EST on Tuesday, November …

[ad_1] Student Roy Smith discovered fossils of the mysterious pterosaur after sifting through the collections at Cambridge’s Sedgwick Museum and Brighton’s Booth Museum, reports the BBC. Mr. Smith, 26, has realized that what was believed to be the file shark spine fossils they were in fact pieces of jaws belonging …

[ad_1] Three NASA crew members and a Japanese astronaut are ready to launch aboard a SpaceX rocket on Saturday, bound for the International Space Station on the program’s first six-month routine mission since the United States resumed spaceflight with crew in May after nine years of dependence on Russia. NASA …

[ad_1] Research from the International Space Station reveals the benefits of using bacteria to extract minerals from material found on the Moon and Mars. A specific bacterium is capable of extracting rare earth elements from volcanic rock under multiple gravity conditions. NASA has historically avoided contaminating its mission with bacteria, …

[ad_1] A fossil discovery in New Zealand has revealed a new species of monk seal it once called Australasia home. We introduce the three million year seal, Eomonachus belegaerensis, in an article published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Eomonaco it is the first monk seal species, …

[ad_1] A fossil discovery in New Zealand has revealed a new species of monk seal it once called Australasia home. We introduce the three million year seal, Eomonachus belegaerensis, in an article published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Eomonaco it is the first monk seal species, …

[ad_1] SpaceX is about to launch four astronauts in the first human-rated commercial spacecraft. This will not be SpaceX’s first human mission. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley boarded the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft this summer, flew into Earth orbit, and docked at the International Space Station. After two …

[ad_1] Research from the International Space Station reveals the benefits of using bacteria to extract minerals from material found on the Moon and Mars. A specific bacterium is capable of extracting rare earth elements from volcanic rock under multiple gravity conditions. NASA has historically avoided contaminating its mission with bacteria, …