This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now,
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now,
If you asked someone what they expected to see during a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, they would probably list things like astronauts, engineers, and maybe a spacecraft or
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A powerful U.S.-Indian Earth-observing satellite has made it to the launch pad. On July 24, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) rolled the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) spacecraft and