Space News
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55 Years Ago: Three Months Until the Moon Landing
The rapid pace of preparations for the first Moon landing continued in April 1969. The successful Apollo 9 mission in March cleared the way for Apollo 10 to test all…
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Two NASA Sounding Rockets Launch from Alaska During Solar Flare
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Two Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, April 17, 2024, during…
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Climate Change Research
6 Min Read Climate Change Research The Kibo laboratory module from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (comprised of a pressurized module and exposed facility, a logistics module, a remote manipulator…
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Hubble Goes Hunting for Small Main Belt Asteroids
5 min read Hubble Goes Hunting for Small Main Belt Asteroids Like boulders, rocks, and pebbles scattered across a landscape, asteroids come in a wide range of sizes. Cataloging asteroids…
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The Marshall Star for April 17, 2024
18 Min Read The Marshall Star for April 17, 2024 The Full Experience: NASA, Marshall, and Arkansas Celebrate Total Solar Eclipse By Celine Smith More than 100,000 people from across…
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NASA’s Near Space Network Enables PACE Climate Mission to ‘Phone Home’
The PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission has delivered its first operational data back to researchers, a feat made possible in part by innovative, data-storing technology from NASA’s Near…
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NASA Photographer Honored for Thrilling Inverted In-Flight Image
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA research pilot Nils Larson and photographer Jim Ross complete aerobatic maneuvers in a NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in…
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NASA to Hoist Its Sail: Solar Sail Mission Gets Ready for Launch
An artist’s concept of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft in orbit. NASA/Aero Animation/Ben Schweighart A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready…
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NASA Announces Winners of Power to Explore Challenge
The winners of NASA’s 2024 Power to Explore Student Challenge are: 9-year-old Raine Lin, left, 12-year-old Aadya Karthik, and 18-year-old Thomas Liu. Credit: NASA/Dave Lam NASA announced the winners on…
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NASA Invites Media for Climate Update, New Earth Missions
For a media briefing in advance of Earth Day, NASA will share info about next steps for its Earth research program, as well as highlight our newest Earth-observing satellite PACE…