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Observed the first Monday in September, Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers.

The Voyager twins are the longest-running and most distant spacecraft in history.

Each morning, the Mars rovers engineering team played a song for Spirit and Opportunity related to the task for that sol, or Martian day.

The techniques developed at NASA for testing batteries for space have become part of a UL-defined method for testing all large lithium-ion battery systems.

LEMS is a compact, autonomous seismometer designed to carry out continuous, long-term monitoring of ground motion on the Moon.

It’s not easy to predict the path of forest fires, but it is crucial to be as accurate as possible.

Scientific balloons offer near-space access for suspended payloads up to eight thousand pounds.

Skylights are some of the smaller holes that go directly down into caves below the lunar surface.

Astronomically speaking, the Veil Nebula, found in the Cygnus constellation, is one of our planet’s close celestial neighbors.

Just as a sailboat is powered by wind in a sail, solar sails take advantage of the pressure of sunlight for propulsion, eliminating the need for conventional rocket propellant.

Beyond heat and lava, volcanic activity may also cool the climate.

FLOAT would employ unpowered magnetic robots that levitate over a three-layer flexible film track, creating a lunar railway network.

Sometimes failure is a critical component of success.

NASA is looking to laser communications to send large amounts of information back to Earth.

Three fuel cells in the service module provided all the electricity needed for the Apollo astronauts to make their historic journeys to the Moon.

By successfully carrying out the first U.S. mission to collect an asteroid sample, the OSIRIS-REx team has guaranteed their place in the timeline of flight.

This post-mission testing will help engineers evaluate how critical systems fared after Orion completed its 25-day, one-point-four-million-mile trip to space.

As these updated robots make a beeline through the International Space Station, they will test their new skills.

In competitive swimming, where every hundredth of a second counts, reducing drag is crucial.

A NASA spinoff involving piezoelectric technology developed decades ago is still in use in sports and by Olympic trainers today.