- NASA-Led Mission to Map Air Pollution Over Both U.S. Coasts
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This summer between June 17 and July 2, NASA will fly aircraft over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California to ...
- NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility to Launch Student Experiments
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A Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket carrying students experiments for the RockOn! mission successfully launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Aug. 17, ...
- Summary of the Ninth DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting
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Summary of the Ninth DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting
Introduction
The ninth Deep Space Climate Observatory ...
- NASA’s LRO Spots China’s Chang’e 6 Spacecraft on Lunar Far Side
This image from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows China’s Chang’e 6 lander in the Apollo basin on the far side of the Moon on June 7, 2024. The lander is ...
- Johnson Celebrates LGBTQI+ Pride Month: Meet Michael Chandler
Michael Chandler has provided configuration and data management support at Houston’s Johnson Space Center for the last 13 years. After roughly seven years supporting the Exploration Systems Development Division, Chandler ...
- Human Factors Researcher Garrett Sadler
“I graduated in 2008, so that job market was not super great, and I ended up with this very unusual job working for this guy who thought that he had ...
- Hubble Captures a Cosmic Fossil
ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Niederhofe
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 2005. It’s not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself, but it is a peculiarity when compared to ...
- NASA Invites Media to See Artemis II Moon Rocket Elements at Kennedy
NASA’s Pegasus barge delivers the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s core stage for the 2022 Artemis I mission to the turn basin at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in April ...
- NASA’s Webb Reveals Long-Studied Star Is Actually Twins
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Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory through launch, Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument also revealed jets of gas flowing into space from the ...
- NASA’s RASC-AL Competition Selects 2024 Winners
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The Virginia Tech team, winners of first place overall in the RASC-AL 2024 competition.
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Out of 14 finalist teams that encompassed collegiate ...
- ‘NASA in the Park’ Returns to Rocket City June 22
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Credits: Downtown Huntsville Inc.
NASA in the Park is coming back to Big Spring Park East in Huntsville, Alabama, on Saturday, June ...
- Sea Ice Swirls
NASA/Wanmei Liang, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview
NASA’s Terra satellite captured floating fragments of sea ice as ocean currents carried them south along Greenland’s east coast on June 4, 2024.
This ...
- Flag Day 2024 – One Small Flag’s Incredible Journey
This article tells the story of one small American flag fortunate enough to be singled out from a group of one thousand flags just like it and embark on an ...
- Flag Day – One Small Flag’s Incredible Journey
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Flag Day – One Small Flag’s Incredible Journey
This article is for students grades 5-8.
This story tells the tale of one small American flag fortunate enough to ...
- California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge
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California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge
By Savannah Bullard
After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are ...
- NASA’s Perseverance Fords an Ancient River to Reach Science Target
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Perseverance captured this mosaic looking downstream of the dune-filled Neretva Vallis river channel on May 17. The channel fed Jezero Crater ...
- Sols 4212-4214: Gearing up to Drill!
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Sols 4212-4214: Gearing up to Drill!
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- Ames Research Center Democratizes Space Biosciences Research with First Commercial Astronaut Data
Background: To protect astronauts from spaceflight health risks like solar radiation and microgravity, scientists develop countermeasures by studying model organisms exposed to the space environment. For the first time, commercial ...
- Lakita Lowe: Leading Space Commercialization Innovations and Fostering STEM Engagement
Lakita Lowe is at the forefront of space commercialization, seamlessly merging scientific expertise with visionary leadership to propel NASA’s commercial ambitions and ignite a passion for STEM in future generations. ...
- Quirky Circling Behavior in Mice Informs Research on Humans in Space
During the Rodent Research-1 (RR-1) mission flown to the ISS in 2014, videos that were taken to observe the mice revealed an unusual behavior that researchers are still working to ...
- A Solitary Sight
NASA, ESA/Andreas Mogensen
ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen snapped a photo of the waning gibbous moon from the International Space Station as it soared 260 miles above the Atlantic ...
- NASA’s Roman Mission Gets Cosmic ‘Sneak Peek’ From Supercomputers
Researchers are diving into a synthetic universe to help us better understand the real one. Using supercomputers at the U.S. DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, scientists ...
- NASA Supports California Students Aiming to Advance Technology
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Brad Flick, center director at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, talks to students from California State University, Northridge, ...
- NASA Ames Hosts National Wildfire Coordinating Group
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NWCG Executive Board members stand in front of giant turbines in the National Full Scale Aerodynamic Complex during their visit to ...
- NASA Selects 2024 Small Business, Research Teams for Tech Development
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NASA will award funding to nearly 250 small business teams to develop new technologies to address agency priorities, such as carbon neutrality and energy storage for various ...