Space News
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Ground Antenna Trio to Give NASA’s Artemis Campaign ‘LEGS’ to Stand On
New 66-foot-wide antenna dishes will be built, online, and operational in time to provide near-continuous communications services to Artemis astronauts at the Moon later this decade. Called LEGS, short for…
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Eileen Collins Broke Barriers as America’s First Female Space Shuttle Commander
5 Min Read Eileen Collins Broke Barriers as America’s First Female Space Shuttle Commander Astronauts Eileen M. Collins, mission commander and Jeffrey S. Ashby, pilot, peruse checklists on Columbia's middeck…
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NASA Research Volunteers to Begin Next Simulated Mission to Mars
The latest crew chosen by NASA to venture on a simulated trip to Mars inside the agency’s Human Exploration Research Analog. From left are Sergii Iakymov, Erin Anderson, Brandon Kent,…
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NASA to Host Panels, Forums, and More at Oshkosh 2024
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s pavilion as it will look at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024 is seen in this illustration, Flying into the…
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Exploring the Moon: Episode Previews
2 Min Read Exploring the Moon: Episode Previews Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program Discover. Learn. Explore. NASA’s video series, Exploring the Moon, takes a “behind-the-scenes” look at humanity’s…
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I am Artemis: John Campbell
John Campbell, a logistics engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, stands on NASA’s Pegasus barge July 15. NASA How do you move NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s massive…
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NASA’s Juno Mission Captures the Colorful and Chaotic Clouds of Jupiter
Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Gary Eason © CC BY During its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the…
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Explorers on the Moon: Apollo 11 Landing
NASA On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon in the lunar module “Eagle.” Afterward, Aldrin posed for this photo, taken by Armstrong, beside…
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NASA-Funded Studies Explain How Climate Is Changing Earth’s Rotation
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Arctic is captured in this 2010 visualization using data from NASA’s Aqua satellite. A new study quantifies how…
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NASA Awards Launch Excitement for STEM Learning Nationwide
3 Min Read NASA Awards Launch Excitement for STEM Learning Nationwide Southwest Girl Scout Council Leaders test out their “cereal box” pin-hole viewers to study the sun during educator training…