- The First Space Shuttle
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In this image from April 12, 1981, the first space shuttle, STS-1, launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with NASA astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. ...
- NASA Invites Media to Mars Sample Return Update
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT, Monday, April 15, to discuss the agency’s response to a Mars Sample Return Independent Review Board report from September 2023, ...
- Tech Today: Folding NASA Experience into an Origami Toolkit
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Though the art of origami is centuries old, until the late 20th century it was considered virtually impossible to make insects ...
- Hubble Spots a Galaxy Hidden in a Dark Cloud
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Hubble Spots a Galaxy Hidden in a Dark Cloud
This Hubble image features the spiral galaxy IC 4633.
ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Acknowledgement: L. Shatz
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- Altitude Chamber Gets Upgrade for Artemis II, Spacecraft Testing Begins
Before the Orion spacecraft is stacked atop NASA’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) rocket ahead of the Artemis II mission, engineers will put it through a series of rigorous tests ...
- Media Get Close-Up of NASA’s Jupiter-Bound Europa Clipper
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Members of the media visited a clean room at JPL April 11 to get a close-up look at NASA’s Europa Clipper ...
- NASA’s PACE Data on Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Now Available
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NASA’s PACE satellite’s Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) detects light across a hyperspectral range, which gives scientists new information to differentiate communities ...
- NASA Invites Media to Switzerland Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
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NASA will welcome Switzerland as the 37th country to sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 15 at the agency’s headquarters in ...
- NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Announces 3 Personnel Appointments
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Left to right: JPL’s Keyur Patel, Howard Eisen, and Todd Gaier
NASA/JPL-Caltech
The staff changes tap into a deep well of talent ...
- NASA’s SERT II: ‘A Genuine Space Success Story’
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An illustration of the SERT II spacecraft, which was comprised of the Agena upper stage, the experimental thrusters and associated equipment, ...
- Shawnta M. Ball Turns Obstacles into Opportunities in Goddard’s Education Office
When it comes to transforming obstacles into opportunities, it’s all about a “grow where you’re planted” mentality, says Shawnta M. Ball, a program support specialist in Goddard’s education office.
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- The Marshall Star for April 10, 2024
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The Marshall Star for April 10, 2024
NASA, Marshall Help Viewers Celebrate Total Solar Eclipse in Arkansas
A group of Marshall and agency team members traveled to ...
- NASA, Japan Advance Space Cooperation, Sign Agreement for Lunar Rover
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, and Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Masahito Moriyama, hold signed copies of an historic agreement between the United States and Japan ...
- More Than 36,000 Volunteers Helped Do NASA Eclipse Science
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More Than 36,000 Volunteers Helped Do NASA Eclipse Science
SunSketcher volunteers captured sequences of eclipse images, revealing the precise size and shape of the Sun and testing ...
- A Langley Intern Traveled 1,340 Miles to View a Total Solar Eclipse. Here’s What She Saw.
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A Langley Intern Traveled 1,340 Miles to View a Total Solar Eclipse. Here’s What She Saw.
Emma Friedman, an intern with the Office of Communications at NASA's ...
- Media Invited to Learn About NASA’s New Solar Sail Technology
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Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center test deployment of the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System’s solar sail. The unfurled solar sail ...
- Sometimes Getting the Perfect Picture Really Is Rocket Science
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NASA Engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal waves goodbye to a Black Brant IX sounding rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in ...
- MAF EAP – Upcoming NASA-Wide EAP Programs (April 2024)
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Raising Awareness of Substance Use Disorder
April 11, 2024
Join us for an enlightening webinar on raising awareness of Substance Use Disorder (SUD). ...
- Media Invited to NASA’s Student Launch Challenge in Alabama
Hundreds of students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched amateur rockets near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, during the Agency’s 2023 Student Launch competition.
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- NASA Next-Generation Solar Sail Boom Technology Ready for Launch
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NASA Next-Generation Solar Sail Boom Technology Ready for Launch
An artist's concept of NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft in orbit as the Sun crests Earth's ...
- NASA’s DC-8 Completes Final Mission, Set to Retire
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The DC-8 aircraft returned to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, on April 1, 2024, after completing ...
- NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara to Discuss Space Station Mission
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara is pictured inside the cupola aboard the International Space Station.
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After spending six-and-a-half-months aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara will participate in a ...
- New NASA Strategy Envisions Sustainable Future for Space Operations
Low Earth orbit, the focus of volume one of NASA’s Space Sustainability Strategy, is the most concentrated area for orbital debris. This computer-generated image showcases objects that are currently being ...
- Seeing Totality
NASA/Keegan Barber
On April 8, 2024, a NASA photographer captured the total solar eclipse in Dallas. A small part of North America, from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of ...
- Through Astronaut Eyes, Virtual Reality Propels Gateway Forward
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NASA Astronaut Raja Chari explores Gateway in virtual reality at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Astronauts living aboard the Gateway lunar space ...