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Get into the Halloween spirit with resources in this week's NASA EXPRESS! 🎃
Find pumpkin carving stencils, listen to haunting sounds from the universe, learn how to be a candy bar geologist, and more!
Click, if you dare! 👻
conta.cc/4jKpJMp
ALT A large orange pumpkin with the Artemis logo carved into it, lit from within, next to a black terracotta pumpkin nestled into grass and fallen leaves
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Virgin Galactic's first "Delta-class" space plane, the newly named Apeiron, lifted off for the first time on Thursday (Oct. 29) —beneath the wings of its carrier aircraft. space.com/space-exploration/…
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China and Russia are expanding their reach in orbit. How does America keep its edge in space?
Join The Washington Times, @LockheedMartin, @vantortech, @_Rocketdyne, @ulalaunch, @HigherOrbits and Obviant for the Golden Age of Space, bringing together military leaders, lawmakers and industry executives for a morning of candid conversation.
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Virgin Galactic has officially unveiled its first "Delta-class" space plane, and announced the results of the worldwide vote to choose its name. space.com/space-exploration/…
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Leo Vulcan 1 (LV-01) update:
Our first mission on @ulalaunch's Vulcan rocket is set for Friday, Nov. 13, pending range approval. All 40 Leo satellites—our largest payload to date—have been integrated with Vulcan inside Amazon's vertical integration facility (VIF-A) at the Cape, and teams are working through final processing ahead of launch from SLC-41.
Follow along with upcoming Leo missions: spr.ly/6015BHly5U
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Meet Spaceship Apeiron. From the Greek for boundless. Named by you → bit.ly/SpaceshipApeiron #NameASpaceship
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We built it. You named it. On Oct 28, the name you voted for will be revealed to the world. Then our lead Delta Class Spaceship is set to fly from our Spaceship Factory in Phoenix-Mesa to its new home at Spaceport America → bit.ly/leadspaceshipreveal #NameASpaceship
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The universe has a musical side. 🎶
Meet the Treble Clef, an unusual radio structure stretching more than 2 million light-years across space. Its shape is striking, but the science behind it is even more fascinating.
Studying structures like this can reveal how galaxy clusters interact and evolve. In this composite, radio emission appears in red, X-rays in blue, and infrared data in white: go.nasa.gov/3WCV89U
ALT Composite image of the Treble Clef, a giant radio structure in space. Bright pink filaments resembling a musical treble clef stretch through a diffuse blue cloud, surrounded by scattered stars against a black background.
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It's the final countdown 🎶
We're one step closer to Roman's first images! The observatory is now fully functional and the team is performing their final checks and calibrations before starting science observations.
go.nasa.gov/4A9menV
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I launched into space for the first time #OTD in 1995 as part of STS-73. There is nothing quite like the energy and anticipation of your first spaceflight!
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We’re 3 for 3 in orbit this October. This time, it’s space drugs. W-7 carries pharmaceutical hardware and a promising new type of cancer medicine known as a protein degrader. Microgravity will help overcome one of its biggest limitations: poor solubility.
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The 2026 Orionid meteor shower peaks on the night between October 21 and October 22! Here's how to watch ☄️
planetary.org/articles/your-…
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
Roman continues its journey in space to its final orbit, completing critical milestones along the way. We expect first images by early 2027.
go.nasa.gov/4yQuwkb
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Midland students are taking their ideas to space!🚀 Five MISD students who participated in the past Higher Orbits Go for Launch! Midland series will prepare experiments for the International Space Station, with launch planned in late 2027.
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#NASAWebb has pinpointed the host galaxy of the most distant fast radio burst ever seen. The galaxy proved surprisingly small and young, which provides a clue to the source of the burst: news.stsci.edu/4hEmZip 🔭
ALT A field full of small galaxies of all shapes against the blackness of space. A few bright white stars show 8 prominent diffraction spikes. A small galaxy at lower right is highlighted with a white box. A shaded triangle extends upward to the corners of a larger box showing a zoom in of the region. Two fuzzy, light blue blobs are at center of the box, with a larger and brighter one at top. Just above the top blob is a white crosshair showing the location where a fast radio burst was detected.
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1000+ Leo satellites complete, with hundreds on standby for launch.
From two prototypes to a full-rate production line, every Leo satellite is designed, built, and tested at our factory in Kirkland, WA. Getting here meant standing up a satellite factory from scratch, compressing test cycles that traditionally take months into days, and learning from every piece of hardware we broke along the way.
Here's an inside look: aboutamazon.com/stories/how-…
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Watch Dragon and Crew-12 return to Earth nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DGLdZyZZ…
