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NASA's New 3D-Printed Superalloy Can Take the Heat

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NASA has demonstrated a breakthrough in 3D printable high-temperature materials that could lead to stronger, more durable parts for airplanes and spacecraft. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Katmai National Park

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The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, located in Katmai National Park, forms a unique and ashen landscape. Encircled by volcanoes – both active and inactive – it has served as a perfect collection area for huge amounts of volcanic ash. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Astronaut Jessica Watkins

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"Operating the International Space Station requires an entire team of people all coming together with one goal in pursuit of that one mission." — Jessica Watkins, Astronaut, NASA's Johnson Space Center (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Astronaut Kjell Lindgren

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"I think that getting to be a crewmember on the International Space Station, and getting to serve there over the course of two long-duration stays, we really feel like we are bridge-builders." — Kjell Lindgren, Astronaut, NASA's Johnson Space Center (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Exploring the Cosmos Together

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Miloslav Stašek, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States (left), Foreign Affairs Minister for the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavský (second from left), NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (second from right), and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Jennifer R. Littlejohn (right), (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Eyes on Ice

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Curtis Flack (left) and Paul von Hardenberg inspect the ice formation on the spinner of an Advanced Air Mobility proprotor model tested in the Icing Research Tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi Exit the Quest Airlock

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Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi are pictured in their Extravehicular Mobility Units, or spacesuits, exiting the International Space Station's Quest airlock and beginning a spacewalk. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Vance Oyama, Searching for Life in Our Solar System

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Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in this picture from April 22, 1965. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Stabilizing Shorelines with Mangroves

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A team member from the Environmental Management Branch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center works to remove a mangrove seedling deposited by tropical winds on the shoreline of KARS Park at Kennedy in this image from April 12, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Hearing and Seeing the Music of the Spheres

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Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the world premiere performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Cosmic Cycles,” in this photo from Thursday, May 11, 2023, as an enhanced color image of Jupiter is displayed above. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
U.S. Senate Members Meet the Crew of Artemis II

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The four astronauts who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II visited Washington on Wednesday, May 17, to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
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