A weather balloon carrying 7 cubesats, created by teams of Maine students, reaches an altitude of 103,199 feet.
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Maine astronaut Chris Cassidy retiring after 28 years of public service
Cassidy returned to Earth from the International Space Station in October 2020.
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Biden doubling emergency spending to prepare for hurricanes, storms, climate change
2021 has already had significant winter storms that caused a deadly blackout in Texas and other states and underscore the damage caused by climate change.
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NASA’s new chief hedges on 2024 moon landing
Former Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida says tackling climate change is a top issue, and he also wants to diversify the space agency’s workforce so it reflects America.
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Watch: Maine Voices Live with Chris Cassidy
Join us on Tuesday, June 15, at 7 p.m. for a conversation with NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy.
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NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
It was a brief hop — just 39 seconds — but accomplished all the major milestones.
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NASA gives the all clear: Earth safe from menacing asteroid for 100 years
First detected in 2004, Apophis is now officially off NASA’s asteroid ‘risk list.’
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Brunswick scientist on rover team, ‘telling the story of Mars’ one grain of sand at a time
Aileen Yingst is part of a team of scientists operating the Perseverance rover’s camera and other instruments designed to search for signs of past life on Mars.
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Hunting for ‘marsquakes,’ NASA lander finds surprisingly active red planet
The InSight’s seismometer picked up 174 marsquakes through Sept. 30, including more than 20 measuring magnitude 3 to magnitude 4.
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Pioneering black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies at 101
Johnson worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers.