NASA is working with industry to advance the next phase of cislunar infrastructure for the agency’s Artemis and Lunar Base program, including orbital assets and demonstrations. Under a contract awarded to Advanced Space, the agency’s CAPSTONE 02 mission will demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations, autonomous navigation, and cislunar communication capabilities while continuing to characterize the
Growing up, celebrations in my family were basically reserved for birthdays and Christmas. We don’t really celebrate academic achievements or traditional milestones. Those things were seen simply as expectations, not necessarily achievements worthy of recognition. Now that I’m a parent of teenagers, I’ve found myself intentionally doing the opposite: celebrating the small victories on the
Many people have experienced diarrhea. So when Nick Palmiter found out in early July, he didn’t think much of it. “I’ll be fine,” he told himself. But the symptoms persisted. And as the days turned into weeks, the stomach cramps were unbearable. “It hurt like hell,” Palmiter said. “And it got to the point where
The size of scientific research teams has steadily increased over time.Credit: two meows/Getty Few articles in history have had the disruptive impact of the 1953 article by James Watson and Francis Crick. Nature article proposing the double helix structure of DNA1. It is a classic of small team science; two authors who propose a paradigm-changing
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WASHINGTON– On one hand: a small community in rural Texas. On the other: the Trump administration. A small Texas town along the border with Mexico is fighting the government’s efforts to build a border wall across a levee system to protect the community. The city argued in court Tuesday that the wall could cause flooding