NASA has selected 45 student essays as winners of the Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes.
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RTG-powered spacecraft have explored every planet in our solar system from Venus outward—including the weather systems of Earth—as well as the polar regions of the Sun.
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While the spacecraft continues to return science data and otherwise operate as normal, the mission team is searching for the source of a system data issue.
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Six decades after the launch of the first nuclear-powered space mission, Transit IV-A, NASA is embarking on a bold future of human exploration and scientific discovery.
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For more than five decades, radioisotope power systems have played a critical role in the exploration of space, enabling missions of scientific discovery to destinations across the solar system.
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For more than five decades, radioisotope power systems have played a critical role in the exploration of space, enabling missions of scientific discovery to destinations across the solar system.
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