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🦅 Where nature and exploration take flight 🚀
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, space exploration shares the spotlight with an American icon. High above the ground, a bald eagle keeps watch from a tree branch while nearby, another adult eagle tends to a nest with two growing eaglets—an inspiring scene captured on March 13, 2026.
Each winter, bald eagles return to Florida’s Space Coast to nest, raise their young, and thrive alongside rocket launches and cutting‑edge science.
🌿 From launch pads to treetops!
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The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory
Solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges through space-based research.
Where? In space.
Low Earth orbit(Abbreviation: LEO) The orbit around the Earth that extends up to an altitude of 2,000 km (1,200 miles) from Earth’s surface. The International Space Station’s orbit is in LEO, at an altitude of approximately 250 miles. (LEO), approximately 250 miles above the Earth.
Research in Space Benefits Humanity
EXPLORE RESULTS FROM RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN SPACE
Upward Volume 8, Issue 3 Available Now
In this issue’s cover story, learn about microbes that hitchhike with astronauts, inhabit the space station, and adapt to the unique conditions there. Other features highlight how wave patterns in vibrating fluids could improve heat removal systems and how researchers are propelling bubbles using light to precisely steer fluids—both of which are critically important for future space missions.
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National Lab research announcements (NLRAs) seek proposals that advance R&D in key areas with demonstrated potential to develop into sustainable markets and benefit humanity.
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