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President Donald Trump presented NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The award recognizes the crew’s successful Artemis II mission and historic flight around the moon earlier this year.
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President Donald Trump presented NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The award recognizes the crew’s successful Artemis II mission and historic flight around the moon earlier this year.
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NASA has begun examining options to replace its fleet of T-38 Talon jets, which have trained astronauts for decades. The effort comes as the U.S. Air Force prepares to retire its own aging Talon fleet, creating potential challenges for sustaining astronaut training capabilities.
A new study examines possible mechanisms behind changes in astronauts’ lower eyelids during long-duration spaceflight. The condition is associated with vision problems, and understanding its causes could help researchers assess and manage a growing human-spaceflight health challenge.
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NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot completed a follow-up spacewalk on Aug. 25, successfully installing a replacement Space-to-Ground Antenna that had failed aboard the International Space Station. The operation followed their earlier removal of the faulty unit and was intended to restore communications capability.
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Expedition 75 officially began after Soyuz MS-28 departed the International Space Station, with the crew focused on upgrading the station’s solar arrays and communications antennas. NASA has also scheduled additional spacewalks for maintenance, including live coverage of the work outside the orbiting laboratory.
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NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk on Aug. 25, installing a replacement Space-to-Ground antenna outside the International Space Station. The task followed their Aug. 18 removal of a faulty antenna and concluded with the spacewalkers returning inside at 2:57 p.m. EDT.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and French astronaut Sophie Adenot will conduct a spacewalk Aug. 25 to replace a failed space-to-ground antenna on the International Space Station. NASA will provide live coverage of the extravehicular activity, which is intended to restore the station’s communications capability.
Eight early-stage companies have joined a national accelerator pairing International Space Station access with private investment, while NASA highlights next-generation commercial cargo landers intended to support a sustained human presence on the Moon. Together, the efforts connect near-term microgravity commercialization with longer-term lunar infrastructure development.
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