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How Does NASA Get Photos Back From Deep Space Probes?
Every once in awhile, NASA publishes a photo of something in space taken by one of their probes. But how exactly do probes in deep space send those photos back to us on Earth? Well, it’s actually pretty simple, and you use technology operating on similar principles every day without realizing it. NASA Uses Wireless Data Transmission to Communicate With…
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NASA will bring the Starliner astronauts home next year on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission
NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced today that US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will return next February with the SpaceX Crew-9 mission after spending more than 80 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS). According to NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich, “As we got more and more data over the summer and understood the uncertainty of that…
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