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What ever happened to (that NASA link about) SpinSat?
My 2016 question What ever happened to SpinSat - did it work? about the 2012 "Special Purpose Inexpensive Satellite" draws heavily from "NASA's mission pages link for SpinSat" ...
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Unable to find Incident Report for aborted launch of first Shuttle flight
There is an amazingly well writen report on the aborted launch of the first(?) shuttle because the computers did not sync up. I remember reading this report and it being fascinating and prescient ...
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From which NASA publication originates/where can I find a higher resolution version of this SSME flow diagram?
This came up when I was taking a look at Endeavour over in LA. Where can I find a readable version of this full flow diagram (valves, control systems, and everything)?
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Where can I read about the other 17 telescope proposals that NASA’s Astrophysics Explorers Program didn't accept in 2019?
Update: Per @DH's comment: Possibly nowhere, except for brief and oftentimes inscrutable summaries. The summaries have to be publicly releasable. Proposers often do their best to make the publicly ...
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How to get the Voyager Golden Record music?
This link https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/music From NASA lists the tracks in the Golden Record sent to outer space. Has anyone come across an easy way to actually ...
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Does NASA yet have an official history of the Shuttle?
NASA has official "histories" of many of their past programs. These are more about people and decisions, not technical details. This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury On the ...
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Where is the uncropped version of this cool Ingenuity navigation camera GIF?
Ingenuity's Shadow During Third Flight shows the GIF below which is made from cropped bits from several downward-looking images from Ingenuity's navigation camera, stretched so that the ground is ...
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Looking for a live audio-only stream of NASA TV or JSC/ISS loops
I recently installed an old iMac G3 machine just for the fun of it, but it doesn't play YouTube videos for obvious reasons, so I can't use it to play NASA TV in any form. However, audio streams is ...
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NASA design handbooks and specifications
Does anybody know the designations, publication names, etc. for the design standards which NASA uses for space flight hardware? I’d like to add these resources into my engineering library.
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Is there a publicly available inventory of things sent to the ISS?
I spent some time looking through NASA datasets and news articles, and couldn't find anything, so I'm hoping that someone in the community will know better than I do: I'm trying to understand what the ...
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Where can I find data on current space agency contracts?
I'm trying to compile a list of current space contracts held by NASA, the CSA, and any other space-related agency so that I can get a feel for what the most heavily researched areas are. What are ...
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NASA Astronaut Group 2 Press Conference
Is there footage of the NASA Astronaut Group 2 press conference online? I can watch the press conference for the Mercury astronauts here, but can't find Group 2 footage. I've seen snippets of the 1962 ...
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What is the accepted methodology for prioritizing scientific exploration missions?
This question is motivated by an argument that arose in relation to this question. We know there are decadal surveys recommending the priorities in planetary exploration. There is also a neat problem ...
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What's the current timeline for NASA's Mars orbiter laser communications?
Dr. Jim Green, Director, NASA Planetary Science Division, mentioned during his "The Martian": Science Fiction & Science Fact talk for the 18th Annual International Mars Society Convention (you can ...
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