- Orion on the Rise
NASA/Radislav Sinyak
Technicians lift NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell on June 28, 2024. The integrated spacecraft, which will be used for the Artemis II ...
- NASA Announces its Artemis II Backup Crew Member for Moon Mission
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Credits: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
NASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as its backup crew member for the agency’s ...
- NASA’s Planetary Radar Tracks Two Large Asteroid Close Approaches
The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered 500-foot-wide (150-meter-wide) asteroid 2024 MK, which made its closest approach — within ...
- Fourth of July Holidays in Space
It may seem remarkable that no American spent the Fourth of July holiday in space for the first 21 years of human spaceflight. Not until 1982 and the 35th U.S. ...
- WorldHotels invites Partners to Rediscover Tawa Ravadee Resort
Bangkok, Thailand, July 3, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / Nestled in the lush rice fields and natural forests of Prachinburi province, a hidden charm of the East, Tawa Ravadee Resort brings ...
- Volunteer Crew to Exit NASA’s Simulated Mars Habitat After 378 Days
The first CHAPEA mission crew members who have been living and working inside NASA’s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission pose for a photograph taken on June 25, 2024. (Credits: ...
- NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Space Telescope Mission
Credits: NASA
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) mission.
The firm-fixed-price contract has a value of ...
- NASA’s ECOSTRESS Maps Burn Risk Across Phoenix Streets
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NASA’s ECOSTRESS instrument on June 19 recorded scorching roads and sidewalks across Phoenix where contact with skin could cause serious burns ...
- Studying Hurricane Beryl from Space
NASA/Matthew Dominick
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this image of Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean on July 1, 2024, while aboard the International Space Station, and posted it to X. The ...
- Lagniappe for July 2024
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Lagniappe for July 2024
Explore the July 2024 issue, featuring NASA Stennis Achieves Primary Success for Historic In-Space Mission, NASA at the Mississippi Comic Convention, NASA Stennis ...
- How a NASA Engineer Supports the Commercialization of Space
Chris Barnett-Woods is shown at the E-1 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where NASA Stennis accelerates the exploration and commercialization of space and ...
- Interview with Xinchuan Huang
Xinchuan Huang
Let’s start with your childhood, where you were born, where you’re from, your young years, your family at the time, what your parents did, and how early it was ...
- NASA’s Boeing Test Flight Crew to Discuss Starliner Mission from Space
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts (from top) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and the Starliner ...
- What’s Up: July 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA
What to Look for in July
The scorpion’s star clusters, and Mars reveals elusive Uranus
Follow the tail of Scorpius to locate star clusters M6 and M7, let Mars guide you to ...
- NASA Asteroid Experts Create Hypothetical Impact Scenario for Exercise
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This artist’s concept depicts an asteroid drifting through space. Many such objects frequently pass Earth. To help prepare for the discovery ...
- NASA Shares Use Requirements with Commercial Destination Partners
NASA astronaut Mike Barratt processes brain organoid samples inside the life science glovebox for a neurodegenerative disorder study. NASA plans to use future commercial low Earth orbit destinations for the ...
- NASA’s Upgraded Hyperwall Offers Improved Data Visualization
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NAS visualization & data sciences lead Chris Henze demonstrates the newly upgraded hyperwall visualization system to Ames center director Eugene Tu, ...
- NASA Awards Support STEM Research at Minority Serving Institutions
A photo of MPLAN principal investigator awardees from various minority-serving institutions at the 2023 NASA Better Together conference in San Jose, California.
Credits: NASA
NASA has selected 23 minority-serving institutions to receive ...
- Behind the Scenes of a NASA ‘Moonwalk’ in the Arizona Desert
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Behind the Scenes of a NASA ‘Moonwalk’ in the Arizona Desert
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins (left) and Andre Douglas.
Credits: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins ...
- NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman’s 21st Station Resupply Launch
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft approaches the International Space Station. Cygnus will deliver science experiments, crew supplies, and station hardware (Credits: NASA).
Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver ...
- July’s Night Sky Notes: A Hero, a Crown, and Possibly a Nova!
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July’s Night Sky Notes: A Hero, a Crown, and Possibly a Nova!
Like shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, over 100,000 stars whirl within the globular ...
- NASA Awards Contract for Infrared Telescope Facility Operations
Credits: NASA
NASA has selected the University of Hawaii in Honolulu to maintain and operate the agency’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea in Hilo, Hawaii.
The Management and Operations of ...
- NASA Announces Winners of Inaugural Human Lander Challenge
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NASA Announces Winners of Inaugural Human Lander Challenge
NASA’s 2024 Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) Forum brought 12 university teams from across the United States to Huntsville, ...
- The Maze is Afoot
NASA/JPL-Caltech
This labyrinth – with a silhouette of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes at its center – is used as a calibration target for the cameras and laser that are part ...
- NASA Opportunities Fuel Growth and Entrepreneurship for Bronco Space Club Students
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The Bronco Space team assembles its Bronco Ember technology, which uses a short-wave infrared camera with AI to improve early wildfire ...