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"Iceland. Better than space." That's the new tagline from Iceland's tourism board. We asked the head of Visit Iceland why her country might have an edge over space — and consulted NASA as well.
To prepare for NASA's first journey to the moon in over half a century, the crew of the Artemis II spent the summer training in Earth's most moon-like environment.. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman ...
Iceland has served as a lunar stand-in for training NASA astronauts since the days of the Apollo missions, and this summer the Artemis II crew took its place in that long history.
NASA image of the most recent eruption on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula in natural color overlaid with an infrared signal to help distinguish the lava’s heat signature.
The photos, taken by NASA's Landsat 9 satellite, show lava flowing from a fissure in the Sundhnúkur crater row on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula.
Recently, NASA sent a team of over a dozen scientists and engineers to Iceland to test new Mars exploration techniques in a lava field that closely matches the Mars landscape.
Nasa has captured red-hot lava flowing from Iceland's recent volcanic eruption in stunning satellite images. The Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 pictured the shot on November 24, showing ...
The astronauts that went to Iceland this summer are training for Artemis II: one small step towards NASA’s long-time goal to put humans back on the surface of the Moon.
Jahnavi Dangeti, a 23-year-old from Andhra Pradesh, becomes the first Indian to complete NASA's program and is set to travel to space in 2029.
The U.K. based aerospace company, Space Solar, plans to launch its space-based solar power plant by 2030 to deliver clean energy to Iceland, which is already a renewable-energy powerhouse.