A pair of spacewalking astronauts completed a four-year effort to modernize the ISS's power grid. The space station is now equipped with 24 lithium-ion batteries to store power collected by the solar panels. NASA expects these batteries to last the rest of the space station's operating life.
NASA Names Leaders to Key Agency Roles
A twenty-five-thousand-trillion-ton rock, about the size of New Jersey, hit the moon 4 billion years ago. The impact caused molten seas to flow for millions of years. The Apollo 17 astronauts picked up pieces form the shore of that lava ocean, and one of those pieces is now in the White House.