NASA and Lockheed Unveil Groundbreaking X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet
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At the core of NASA's Quesst mission, the X-59 aims to provide crucial data to prompt a reevaluation of regulations prohibiting supersonic flight over land. For half a century, such flights have been restricted due to the disruptive sonic booms that startle communities below.
NASA Extends Diwali Wishes with Stunning Celestial Image Captured by Hubble
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Globular clusters are defined as stable, densely packed groups of tens of thousands to millions of stars, commonly associated with various types of galaxies. 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx set to return to Earth on Sep 24 with 1st-ever asteroid samples
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OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer), the first US mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return with material from asteroid Bennu. It is carrying an estimated 8.8 ounces of rocky material collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu in 2020. 
No sufficient evidence for ‘extraterrestrial source’ for UAPs: NASA
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NASA had commissioned an independent study to better understand how the space agency can contribute to ongoing government efforts to further the study observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as balloons, aircraft, or as known natural phenomena from a scientific perspective.
Moon's South Pole has deep craters shielded from sunlight for billions of years
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There are deep craters which have been shielded from sunlight for billions of years, where temperatures can plummet to astonishing lows of -248-degree C (-414 F), BBC reported. Notably, India’s moon lander part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully set its four legs softly and safely on the lunar surface in the South Pole on Wednesday evening as planned.
NASA's Artemis missions will establish first long-term human presence on lunar surface
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Living and working on the lunar surface will require using resources that are already present there, like water ice, which can be used for life support and fuel, wrote Emily Furfaro of NASA.
Boeing postpones 1st Starliner astronaut launch for NASA to 2024
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"What I know everybody would like is (a) launch date. The vehicle will be ready in the March timeframe," added Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Programme.
New image from NASA's Webb Telescope reveals Saturn’s iconic rings
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"On June 25, 2023, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope turned to famed ringed world Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the planet. The initial imagery from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) is already fascinating researchers," Thaddeus Cesari, Strategic Communications Specialist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, wrote in a blogpost on Friday.
NASA calls off all-electric aircraft flight plan over safety concerns
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Safety and time is the reason behind the permanent scrubbing of the flight, NASA was quoted as saying in a conference call with reporters by science and tech news portal Popular Science. "Unfortunately, we recently discovered a potential failure mode in the propulsion system that we determined to pose an unacceptable risk to the pilot’s safety, and the safety of personnel on the ground, during ground tests," Bradley Flick, the director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, said in the call.
Titan submersible’s hull was apparently made of expired carbon fiber: Report
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Travel Weekly's editor in chief, Arnie Weissmann, wrote in a series of articles that he was due to board the Titan submersible for an expedition to the Titanic in May but the trip was stopped by weather.
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