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Business Email: jgrate4@gmail.com
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NASA’s Artemis III Announcement.
The next chapter of human space exploration is here. Tune in live at 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 9, as NASA reveals the Artemis III crew and shares new mission updates from Johnson Space Center in Houston. Watch the event on NASA+ or here on YouTube.
Artemis III will launch four astronauts from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the Orion spacecraft on the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The mission will test critical rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial human landing systems needed to deliver astronauts to the lunar surface. Building on the successful Artemis II crewed test flight in April, Artemis III will pave the way for future surface missions.
Credit: NASA
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Expedition 73/74 Crew Members on Capitol Hill
NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, second from right, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui, right, speak with U.S. Rep. Mike Haridopolos, R-Fla., alongside Trey Carlson, chief of staff of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expeditions 73 and 74, Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in the Longworth House Office Building in Washington.
Cardman and Yui spent 167 days onboard the orbiting laboratory as part of Expeditions 73 and 74.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
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James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam Images of the “Cosmic Cliffs” in Carina Nebula.
What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth.
Called the Cosmic Cliffs, the region is actually the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, roughly 7,600 light-years away. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image.
The high-energy radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away. NIRCam – with its crisp resolution and unparalleled sensitivity – unveils hundreds of previously hidden stars, and even numerous background galaxies. Several prominent features in this image are described below.
1. The “steam” that appears to rise from the celestial “mountains” is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to intense, ultraviolet radiation.
2. Dramatic pillars rise above the glowing wall of gas, resisting the blistering ultraviolet radiation from the young stars.
3. Bubbles and cavities are being blown by the intense radiation and stellar winds of newborn stars.
4. Protostellar jets and outflows, which appear in gold, shoot from dust-enshrouded, nascent stars.
5. A “blow-out” erupts at the top-center of the ridge, spewing gas and dust into the interstellar medium.
6. An unusual “arch” appears, looking like a bent-over cylinder.
This period of very early star formation is difficult to capture because, for an individual star, it lasts only about 50,000 to 100,000 years – but Webb’s extreme sensitivity and exquisite spatial resolution have chronicled this rare event. Located roughly 7,600 light-years away, NGC 3324 was first catalogued by James Dunlop in 1826.
Visible from the Southern Hemisphere, it is located at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), which resides in the constellation Carina. The Carina Nebula is home to the Keyhole Nebula and the active, unstable supergiant star called Eta Carinae. NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.
Credit: NASA
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NASA astronaut replaces sample hardware inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox
(May 28, 2026)
NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 Flight Engineer Chris Williams replaces sample hardware inside the Destiny laboratory module’s Microgravity Science Glovebox aboard the International Space Station to support semiconductor crystal research.
Growing crystals in weightlessness may enable future large-scale semiconductor manufacturing, advancing the commercial space economy and supporting Earth-based industries.
Credit: NASA/Jack Hathaway
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