Space News
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NASA Marshall Team Supports Safe Travels for Space Station Science
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s payload technician Chris Honea, left, and quality assurance specialist Keith Brandon, right, on Feb.…
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Hubble Captures a Bright Spiral in the Queen’s Hair
2 min read Hubble Captures a Bright Spiral in the Queen’s Hair This Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the bright spiral galaxy NGC 4689. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, J.…
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Rae Ann Meyer Named Deputy Director of NASA Marshall
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Portrait: Rae Ann Meyer NASA Rae Ann Meyer has been selected as deputy director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight…
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NASA Selects Technology Transfer Services Contractor
Credits: NASA NASA has awarded the Consolidated Agency Technology Transfer Services contract to Summit Technologies & Solutions, Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia, to provide support for the agency’s Technology Transfer Program.…
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What is 3D-MAT?
A thermal protection material for the Artemis Generation On the 19th day of the Artemis I mission, the Moon grows larger in frame as Orion prepares for the return powered…
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A Moonlit Moonwalk
NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA astronauts Kate Rubins, foreground, and Andre Douglas execute a nighttime simulated moonwalk in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 16, 2024, as part…
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40 Years Ago: NASA Selects its 10th Group of Astronauts
On May 23, 1984, NASA announced the selection of its 10th group of astronauts. Chosen from nearly 5,000 applicants, the group comprised 17 astronaut candidates – seven pilots and 10…
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NASA, Mission Partners to Discuss Starliner Crew Flight Test Progress
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at…
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NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus
5 min read NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus Using observations by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and many other facilities, two international teams of astronomers…
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New Images From Euclid Mission Reveal Wide View of the Dark Universe
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Messier 78 is a nursery of star formation enveloped in a shroud of interstellar dust located 1,300 light-years away…