- Spiral Galaxy NGC 4254’s Dazzling Swirls
It’s oh-so-easy to be mesmerized by this spiral galaxy. Follow its clearly defined arms, which are brimming with stars, to its center, where there may be old star clusters and ...
- Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed
A team of engineers prepares to integrate TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain – into the belly of NASA’s first robotic Moon rover, VIPER ...
- Team Assessing SHERLOC Instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Rover
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NASA’s Perseverance puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in a set of images captured ...
- 55 Years Ago: President Nixon Establishes Space Task Group to Chart Post-Apollo Plans
In early 1969, the goal set by President John F. Kennedy to land a man on the Moon seemed within reach. A new president, Richard M. Nixon, now sat in ...
- NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 30th Resupply Launch to Space Station
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Dragon cargo spacecraft atop, pictured at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 13, 2023.
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Media accreditation is ...
- Sujung Go: Helping Humanity and the Environment
Research scientist Sujung Go analyzes atmospheric data to help humanity and the environment.
Name: Sujung Go
Title: Research scientist
Organization: Climate and Radiation Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science Directorate (Code 613)
Sujung Go is ...
- Career Journey: Building Strength as an Astronaut Fitness Trainer
NASA astronauts must prepare their bodies for the physical stresses of living and working in microgravity before they launch on a spaceflight. Fortunately, they get customized training programs and plenty ...
- NASA Collaborates in an International Air Quality Study
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NASA’s DC-8 aircraft takes off from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, to conduct test flights as ...
- NASA Solar Sail Technology Passes Crucial Deployment Test
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NASA Marshall Space Flight Center technologists Les Johnson and Leslie McNutt at Redwire Space on Jan. 30, 2024, following a successful ...
- Astronaut Charles Bolden Preps for Deorbit
STS-60 commander Charles F. Bolden is seen at the commander’s station on the forward flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery. He is wearing the orange launch and entry suit. ...
- Collins Aerospace Tests NASA Space Station Suit in Weightlessness
A key NASA design milestone was recently completed by Collins Aerospace as the company works to develop a next-generation spacesuit for use on the International Space Station.
The milestone – a ...
- NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 87 Launch, Space Station Docking
The Progress 84 cargo craft is pictured shortly after undocking from the International Space Station’s Poisk Module at 2:55 a.m. EST.
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NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking ...
- NASA Marshall Invites Media to Meet New Center Director
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Joseph Pelfrey, director, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
NASA
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will host a media day at ...
- NASA Administrator Names New Head of Small Business Programs
Assistant Administrator for NASA’s Office of Small Business Programs, Dwight Deneal, poses for portrait, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington. Photo Credit: ...
- Meet NASA’s Twin Spacecraft Headed to the Ends of the Earth
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Sunlight glints off patches of ice in the Chukchi Sea, a part of the Arctic Ocean. NASA’s PREFIRE mission to Earth’s ...
- Sense the Solar Eclipse with NASA’s Eclipse Soundscapes Project
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Sense the Solar Eclipse with NASA’s Eclipse Soundscapes Project
When darkness sweeps across the landscape during a total solar eclipse, unusual things start happening. Fooled by the false dusk, ...
- Do NASA Science LIVE on February 21! What’s it mean to be cool?
Join the next Do NASA Science LIVE event as we explore ways to participate in NASA’s winter-themed volunteer research projects. Register here for this event on February 21st at 7pm ...
- NASA Welcomes Greece as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
(From left) Ioannis Daglis, president of the Hellenic Space Center, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, watch as Giorgos Gerapetritis, Greek foreign minister, signs the ...
- Rahul Ramachandran Essay Published on NASA’s EarthData
January 29, 2024 / Earth Science
Rahul Ramachandran (ST11) wrote his American Geophysical Union (AGU) Leptoukh lecture as an essay titled “From petabytes to Insights: Tackling Earth Science’s Scaling Problem ”. While Ramachandran ...
- Third NASA Enabled Private Flight to Space Station Completes Safely
The Axiom Mission 3 crew aboard the International Space Station, pictured from left to right: Marcus Wandt, Michael López-Alegría, Alper Gezeravci, and Walter Villadei. Credits: Axiom Space
The third private astronaut ...
- NASA Expedition 71 Astronauts to Conduct Research aboard Space Station
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Studies of neurological organoids, plant growth, and shifts in body fluids are among the scientific investigations that NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, ...
- Hubble Spots a Galaxy Shrouded by Stars
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Hubble Spots a Galaxy Shrouded by Stars
This Hubble image shows irregular galaxy, ESO 245-5, located some of 15 million light-years from Earth.
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This NASA/ESA Hubble ...
- NASA Awards Inaugural Grants to Support Emerging Research Institutions
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NASA has awarded $3.7 million to 11 teams to support new collaborations between the agency and United States institutions not historically part of the agency’s research enterprise. These are the ...
- Skylab 4 Recovery Ends Program
The crewmen of the third and final manned Skylab mission relax on the USS New Orleans, prime recovery ship for their mission, about an hour after their Command Module splashed ...
- NASA’s New Experimental Antenna Tracks Deep Space Laser
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Deep Space Station 13 at NASA’s Goldstone complex in California – part of the agency’s Deep Space Network – is an ...