- Ice to Fuel: NASA Tests Technology for Refueling Landers
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NASA engineers Jonathan Davis, left, and Markus Perkins inspect a flight-like cryocooler developed by Creare LLC prior to its integration into ...
- Expanding the Human Factors Toolbox: An Approach to Balancing Crew and Mission Design Parameters
This article is from the 2025 Technical Update.
The human factors TDT looks for and creates opportunities to influence design to leverage human strengths and to protect people and missions. The ...
- Webinar 3/25: NASA CSDA Vendor Focus – Satellogic
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Webinar 3/25: NASA CSDA Vendor Focus – Satellogic
Satellogic satellite imagery of coastal Louisiana shows sediment plumes entering the Gulf of Mexico, illustrating how Earth observation data can monitor ...
- COPV Damage Tolerance Life Demonstration Guidelines
This article is from the 2025 Technical Update.
The NESC has invested significant time and resources to better understand composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPV) performance and more importantly, how these complex, high-pressure storage ...
- A Technical Resource for the Agency
This article is from the 2025 Technical Update.
The NESC’s Thermal Control & Protection Technical Discipline Team (TDT) is a resource providing subject matter expertise in active and passive thermal control ...
- Celebrating NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s 20th Anniversary: Crater Near Sirenum Fossae
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a detailed view of a relatively fresh crater in this image released on June 3, 2015. The crater has a sharp rim ...
- L’Arôme by the Sea Introduces a New Menu
Phuket, Thailand, March 10, 2026 / TRAVELINDEX / L’Arôme by the Sea introduces a new dégustation menu that reaffirms its commitment to contemporary French coastal gastronomy, guided by Executive Chef ...
- NASA’s Van Allen Probe A to Re-Enter Atmosphere
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NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere almost 14 years after launch. From 2012 to 2019, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe ...
- About Subsonic Flight Demonstrator (SFD) Project
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NASA / Scott Anders / Lillian Gipson / Rich Wahls
The purpose of the Subsonic Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project is to engage ...
- About Flight Demonstrations and Capabilities (FDC) Project
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The aircraft’s first flight marks ...
- What Is Pi? (Grades 5-8)
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What Is Pi? (Grades 5-8)
This article is for students grades 5-8.
What is Pi?
Pi is a number. You might know it as 3.14 or the symbol π. But it’s ...
- NASA Armstrong Director Brad Flick to Retire After 40 Years of Service
Portrait of Brad Flick
Credit: NASA
On Monday, NASA announced Bradley Flick, director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, will retire Thursday, March 19, after a nearly 40-year ...
- La NASA compartirá información actualizada sobre la evaluación de aptitud para el vuelo de Artemis II
El transportador oruga 2 de la NASA, que traslada el cohete Sistema de Lanzamiento Espacial con la nave espacial Orion de la misión Artemis II de la agencia, llega el ...
- NASA to Share Artemis II Flight Readiness Review Update
NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, carrying the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft, arrives Feb. 25, 2026, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space ...
- TB 26-03 Flammability Testing Configuration and Approach of Barrier MaterialAssemblies Designed for Space Flight Applications
The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) partnered with Materials and Processes and Flammability subject matter experts from the Johnson Space Center, White Sands Test Facility, and the Marshall Space ...
- Webb Studies Cranium Nebula
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull, ...
- MTCO Reappoints Suvimol Thanasarakij to Lead Mekong Tourism Cooperation
Bangkok, Thailand, March 9, 2026 / TRAVELINDEX / The Board of Directors of the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO) has reappointed Suvimol Thanasarakij (Dee) as Executive Director for a new ...
- ATF TRAVEX 2026 Concludes in Cebu with Strong Business Results and Regional Momentum
Cebu, Philippines, March 8, 2026 / TRAVELINDEX / The ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) TRAVEX 2026 concluded on a high note in Cebu, Philippines, delivering strong business outcomes, robust industry engagement, ...
- Jim Thompson Celebrates 75 Years: Weaving Heritage into a Global Lifestyle Legacy
Bangkok, Thailand, March 6, 2026 / TRAVELINDEX / Jim Thompson marks its 75th anniversary with the launch of a global celebration, reflecting its evolution from a Thai silk pioneer into ...
- ARMD Research Solicitations (Updated March 6)
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THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED ON MARCH 6, 2026
This Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) solicitations page compiles the ...
- NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman CRS-24 Station Resupply Launch
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo craft, carrying over 11,000 pounds of new science and supplies for the Expedition 73 crew, is pictured moments before its capture with the International Space ...
- NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun
The Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube traveled alongside NASA’s DART to capture the spacecraft’s collision with Dimorphos. In this LICIACube image, taken moments after impact on Sept. 26, 2022, rocky debris ...
- Track NASA’s Artemis II Mission in Real Time
As NASA invites the public to follow the Artemis II mission as a crew of four astronauts venture around the Moon inside the agency’s Orion spacecraft, people around the world ...
- Weekends on the Space Station
NASA/Chris Williams
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir trims the hair of fellow NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway in this March 1, 2026, image. Meir uses an electric razor attached to a vacuum that ...
- NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman Cargo Spacecraft Departure
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft, loaded with more than 11,000 pounds of science and supplies for Expedition 73, is seen grasped by the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 after its ...