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Space exploration

an astronaut sits on the moon and takes a photo of earth

Space exploration

Our lunar future

Published Winter 2022

In his new book, astrophysicist Joseph Silk explores what the moon can offer humans over the next half-century. / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Space Camp visit for Inspiration4 in Huntsville, Alabama, July 1, 2021

Q+A

And spaceflight for all

Published Sept 13, 2021

The School of Medicine's Mark Shelhamer discusses SpaceX's upcoming all-civilian Inspiration4 mission and its importance for broadening human access to space

illustration of two people looking up at the night sky

Going interstellar with a sun-skirting probe

Published Spring 2021

APL's Interstellar Probe will slingshot around the sun to explore the outer reaches of the universe / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Feinberg and Rizzardi aboard the Vomit Comet

Study looks at how astronaut's body changed in space

Published April 11, 2019

JHU's Andrew Feinberg finds that after year-long NASA mission to the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly had no lingering, major epigenetic differences from his earthbound twin, Mark

Red planet seen from rocky surface of moon

Seeing red

APL to build 'glasses' for Mars moon mission

Published Nov 17, 2017

2024 launch planned for mission being developed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Artist's rendering of the Cassini spacecraft as it orbits Saturn

Cassini plummets into Saturn's atmosphere

Published Sept 15, 2017

Spacecraft, with instrument designed and built in part at Applied Physics Lab, revolutionized our understanding of ringed planet

Image of a galaxy in outer space

Space exploration

Space@Hopkins awards seed grants

Published Aug 31, 2017

Group that supports civilian space research from across JHU funds four interdisciplinary research projects

Two drone devices with multiple rotors fly across a brown, rocky, barren surface, representing the surface of Titan

Space exploration

Dragonfly effect

Published Aug 23, 2017

APL proposal would use drone technology to explore possibility of life on Saturn's largest moon, Titan

Image depicts the atmosphere of Jupiter with dozens of circular features

Returns of the JEDI

Scientists marvel at Juno mission images

Published May 26, 2017

Spacecraft's flight to Jupiter, with APL-built instrument on board, is mission of 'pure discovery'

Space@Hopkins

Astronaut Kate Rubins to visit JHU

Published April 18, 2017

First person to ever sequence DNA in space visits Hopkins for a talk about her experiments, experiences aboard the International Space Station