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NASA Receives 8 2022 Webby Award Nominations

April 7, 2022
. NASA Receives 8 2022 Webby Award Nominations Nominees include JPL’s virtual tour and two JPL-managed sites: NASA’s Global Climate Change and NASA’s Solar System Exploration. Public voting is open through April 22. Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work “to the widest extent practicable.”…
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JPL-Mentored Teams Shine at Annual Student Robotics Competition

April 5, 2022
. JPL-Mentored Teams Shine at Annual Student Robotics Competition The regional FIRST Robotics Competition brings together students from diverse backgrounds to solve engineering problems – and shape their own futures. After 12 frantic weeks building 125-pound (57-kilogram) robots and two days of fast-paced competition with dozens of…
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NASA delays dress rehearsal of new Mega rocket

April 4, 2022
Today, NASA suspended the last major test of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket after pressurization issues prevented technicians from safely loading propellants into the rocket. The test — known as a wet dress rehearsal — has been postponed until Monday, April 4th at…
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Samsung’s Galaxy S22 is $100 off at Best Buy today only

April 1, 2022
We’re kicking off April Fools’ Day with a deal that’s dead serious. For today only, Best Buy is knocking $100 off the price of the unlocked Samsung Galaxy S22. The 128GB and 256GB models of the S22 are currently discounted to $699.99 and $749.99, respectively. Just…
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NASA to conduct elaborate dress rehearsal with new megarocket this weekend

April 1, 2022
For the next three days, NASA is staging an elaborate dress rehearsal with its massive new rocket, the Space Launch System — practicing all of the major steps the agency will have to perform when the vehicle launches for the very first time. It’s a major milestone for the rocket’s development and one of the last major tests it must undergo before the vehicle can be cleared to fly sometime…
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Watch Blue Origin launch its fourth crewed mission to space

March 31, 2022
This morning, space tourism venture Blue Origin will launch its fourth passenger flight to the edge of space and back — but this time, there won’t be any big name celebrities on board. Six crew members — five paying customers and one company employee — will be flying…
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NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei scheduled to return to Earth in Russian space capsule

March 29, 2022
Record-breaking NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is set to return to Earth from the International Space Station on early March 30th, coming back in a Russian Soyuz rocket along with two Russian cosmonauts. His scheduled journey back to the planet has been an ongoing source of strife these last few weeks, as tensions have dramatically soured between the United States and Russia after the latter’s…
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