- NASA Releases Hubble Image Taken in New Pointing Mode
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NASA Releases Hubble Image Taken in New Pointing Mode
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy NGC 1546.
NASA, ESA, STScI, David Thilker (JHU)
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken ...
- Artemis, Architecture, and Lunar Science: SMD and ESDMD Associate Administrators visits Tokyo
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Artemis, Architecture, and Lunar Science: SMD and ESDMD Associate Administrators visits Tokyo
June 18, 2024
At NASA we always say that exploration enables science, and science enables exploration. During a ...
- NASA Awards Logistic Services, Management Contract
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NASA has awarded the Goddard Logistics Services Contract to TRAX International Corporation of Las Vegas to provide logistics services and management for NASA missions.
The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes a base ...
- NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Build Next-Gen Spacecraft for NOAA
Conceptualization of the GeoXO constellation.
Credits: NOAA
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build the spacecraft for NOAA’s ...
- NASA Sets Launch Coverage for NOAA Weather Satellite
Crews transport NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-U) from the Astrotech Space Operations facility to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy ...
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Etched into Collier Trophy, Aerospace History
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been immortalized at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington as the latest awardee of the Robert J. Collier Trophy. Bestowed annually by the ...
- Celebrating Juneteenth
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The crew aboard the International Space Station captured this image of Galveston, Texas, the birthplace of Juneteenth, as the station orbited 224 miles above on Nov. 23, 2011.
In the early 1800s, ...
- Happy Birthday, Redshift Wrangler!
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Happy Birthday, Redshift Wrangler!
Redshift Wranglers have roped nearly 8,000 galaxies! The project is now on its 3rd data set, and more data is on the way.
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- Summary of the 2023 GEDI Science Team Meeting
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Summary of the 2023 GEDI Science Team Meeting
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The 2023 Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Science Team Meeting ...
- 15 Years Ago: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Begins Moon Mapping Mission
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) launched together from Cape Canaveral Air Force, now Space Force, Station on June 18, 2009, atop ...
- NASA, MagniX Altitude Tests Lay Groundwork for Hybrid Electric Planes
Phil Korpeck, a magniX test engineer, sets up a magni650 electric engine in preparation for a series of simulated altitude tests. These tests took place in April 2024 inside NASA’s ...
- NASA Updates Coverage for US Spacewalks 90, 91 Outside Space Station
Astronauts pictured completing an installation outside of the International Space Station.
Credits: NASA
NASA will provide live coverage as astronauts conduct two spacewalks outside the International Space Station scheduled for Monday, June ...
- Sols 4219-4221: It’s a Complex Morning…
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Sols 4219-4221: It’s a Complex Morning…
There are many whiteish rocks in ...
- Astronaut Nicole Mann Throws First Pitch at Giants-Angels Game
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NASA astronaut Nicole Mann waves as she is introduced before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the San Francisco Giants versus Los Angeles Angels game at Oracle ...
- Perseverance Finds Popcorn on Planet Mars
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Perseverance Finds Popcorn on Planet Mars
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- NASA Interns Blast Off for Their First Week at Goddard
Several hundred new faces walked through the gates of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for the first time on June 3. Who is this small army of ...
- NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn’t Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
Despite some years with significant snowfalls, long-term drought conditions in the Great Basin region of Nevada, California, Arizona, and Utah, along ...
- Slow Your Student’s ‘Summer Slide’ and Beat Boredom With NASA STEM
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Slow Your Student’s ‘Summer Slide’ and Beat Boredom With NASA STEM
Creating and testing soda-straw rockets is a fun way for younger students to avoid the “summer ...
- Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA’s Webb
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Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA’s Webb
This image by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows different ...
- Globetrotting NASA Research Model Increases Accuracy
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
The NASA 5.2% scale, semi-span version of the High Lift Common Research Model installed in the German-Dutch Wind Tunnels – Braunschweig ...
- Tropical Solstice Shadows
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Tropical Solstice Shadows
June 20, 2024, marks the summer solstice — the beginning of astronomical summer — in the Northern Hemisphere.
Credits: NASA/DSCOVR EPIC
Solstices mark ...
- NASA, Boeing to Discuss Starliner’s Mission
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission (Credits: NASA)
NASA and Boeing will discuss Starliner’s mission and departure ...
- NASA Announces Winners of 2024 Student Launch Competition
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
High school and collegiate student teams gathered just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to participate in ...
- NASA Joins National Space Council in Celebration of Black Space Week
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NASA astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Victor Glover reviews procedures on a computer for the Monoclonal Antibodies Protein Crystal Growth ...
- NASA to Discuss Outcome of 5th Biennial Asteroid Threat Exercise
Representatives from NASA, FEMA, and the planetary defense community participate in the fifth Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise on April 2 and 3, 2024, to discuss the nation’s ability to ...