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In a new 'This Month in NASA History,' learn about GRAIL–a mission that measured the Doppler shifts of twin spacecraft to identify the Moon's gravitational anomalies and internal structure. Learn more about GRAIL and its findings: https://lnkd.in/epBYA-Cb

Teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center are making progress preparing a new spacecraft—Sierra Space's Dream Chaser—for final assembly, testing, and pre-launch processing before its first flight to the International Space Station. #LiftingBodies Learn more about Dream Chaser in our new INSIGHT article: https://lnkd.in/eeykE4bF

Curious to find out how #NASA uses artificial intelligence to advance its missions? For example, PIXL, the white instrument mounted on the robotic arm of NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover, uses AI to examine rocks on the surface of Mars. To learn more, read our latest INSIGHT article, 'Using AI to Advance NASA Missions': https://lnkd.in/evUQiXrt

Robots inspired by nature? In our new podcast episode we discuss a newer field of robotics engineering that takes inspiration from animal movements – Soft Robotics. Jim Neilan, Project Manager and Software Engineer at NASA Langley Research Center, joins us. #SoftRobotics Listen to 'Soft Robotics': https://lnkd.in/eY2FNnsv

In our recent This Month in #NASAhistory, learn about NASA’s Lunar Orbiter missions and Farouk El-Baz, a geologist who cataloged thousands of photos of the lunar surface and helped to identify key landing zones for the #Apollo program. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eCKHJEq4