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- NASA invita a los medios a firma de Acuerdos de Artemis con Panamá y Austria NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Read this release in English here. El miércoles 11 de diciembre, Panamá y Austria firmarán los Acuerdos de Artemis en la sede de la NASA en Washington. Tras las ceremonias de firma, el administrador de la NASA, Bill Nels...
- NASA Invites Media to Panama, Austria Artemis Accords Signings NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. On Wednesday, Dec. 11, Panama and Austria will sign the Artemis Accords at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Following the signing ceremonies, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will h...
- NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from US Students Abroad NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Students from U.S. military families based overseas will have the chance to hear NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions. On Wednesday, Dec. 11, NASA astronauts Nick Hagu...
- Grants NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Award Terms and Conditions General Award Terms and ConditionsSpecial Terms and ConditionsProgram Specific Terms and ConditionsAppendix A: NASA Prior Approval Matrix for Research AwardsAppendix B: National Policy Requirem...
- 2024 Be An Astronaut Campaign NASA · 9 Dec 2024 NASA astronauts have been traveling to space for more than six decades and living there continuously since 2000. Now, NASA’s Artemis program is preparing to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon. As NASA cont...
- Nelson “basically optimistic” about NASA’s future in the next administration SpaceNews · 8 Dec 2024 The outgoing administrator of NASA says he is “basically optimistic” about the future of the agency under the person proposed by President-elect Donald Trump to be his successor despite the strong possibility of signific...
- Heliophysics decadal survey recommends two flagship missions for NASA SpaceNews · 7 Dec 2024 A new decadal survey for solar and space physics recommends that NASA’s heliophysics program pursue two billion-dollar missions even as the agency proposes to cancel a recommendation from the previous decadal.
- Students Aim High at NASA JPL ‘Candy Toss’ Competition NASA · 7 Dec 2024 Treats went flying through the air by the dozens at the annual Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The 25th Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which welco...
- Students Aim High at NASA JPL ‘Candy Toss’ Competition Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 7 Dec 2024 Treats went flying through the air by the dozens at the annual Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- NASA Accelerates Space Exploration, Earth Science for All in 2024 NASA · 6 Dec 2024 With a look back at 2024, NASA is celebrating its many innovative and inspiring accomplishments this year including for the first time, landing new science and technology on the Moon with an American company, pushing the...
- NASA Awards Operations, Services, Maintenance, and Infrastructure Contract NASA · 6 Dec 2024 NASA has selected Nova Space Solutions, LLC of Anchorage, Alaska, to provide operations, services, maintenance, and infrastructure support for NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and NASA’s Micho...
- Lunar Autonomy Challenge: Selected Teams NASA · 6 Dec 2024 Congratulations to the selected teams and their schools who will participate in the Lunar Autonomy Challenge! 31 teams were selected for the qualifying round, engaging 229 students from colleges and universities in 15 st...
- NASA JPL Unveils the Dr. Edward Stone Exploration Trail NASA · 6 Dec 2024 A series of plaques stretching through the heart of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers highlights of the space explorer’s career and the Voyager mission he led. Family members, colleagues, and local dignitarie...
- NASA’s IXPE Details Shapes of Structures at Newly Discovered Black Hole NASA · 6 Dec 2024 NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole – specifically, the disk of material swirling around it, and the shifting plasm...
- NASA, USAID Launch SERVIR Central American Hub NASA · 6 Dec 2024 SERVIR, NASA’s flagship partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a new regional center, or hub, in Central America on Dec. 3. The new hub is in partnership with the Tropical Agricu...
- Annual Science Conference to Highlight NASA Research NASA · 6 Dec 2024 NASA researchers will present findings on Earth science, planetary science, and heliophysics at the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2024 annual meeting in Washington, DC, beginning on Monday, Dec. 9. New NASA s...
- NASA JPL Unveils the Dr. Edward Stone Exploration Trail Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 6 Dec 2024 A series of plaques stretching through the heart of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers highlights of the space explorer’s career and the Voyager mission he led.
- NASA’s ASTRO CAMP – and its Impact – Continues to Grow in FY2024 NASA · 6 Dec 2024 When it comes to NASA’s ASTRO CAMP®, the numbers – and impact – of the initiative to help students across the nation and world learn about NASA and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) just continue t...
- Rocket Report: NASA delays Artemis again; SpinLaunch spins a little cash Ars Technica · 6 Dec 2024 A report in which we read some tea leaves.
- Hubble Spots a Spiral in the Celestial River NASA · 6 Dec 2024 The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1637, a spiral galaxy located 38 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, the River. This image comes from an observing program dedica...
- NASA to Test Technology for X-59’s Unique Shock Wave Measurements NASA · 5 Dec 2024 NASA will soon test advancements made on a key tool for measuring the unique “sonic thumps” that its quiet supersonic X-59 research aircraft will make while flying. A shock-sensing probe is a cone-shaped air data probe d...
- NASA Invites Media to Administrator Flight in Electra Hybrid-Electric Aircraft NASA · 5 Dec 2024 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will fly in aircraft manufacturer Electra’s EL2 Goldfinch experimental prototype aircraft on Sunday, Dec. 8. Members of the media are invited to speak with Nelson and Electra leaders just p...
- 10 Years Ago: Orion Flies its First Mission NASA · 5 Dec 2024 A new American human-rated spacecraft made its first foray into space on Dec. 5, 2014. Under contract to NASA, Lockheed Martin builds Orion as the vehicle to take American astronauts back to the Moon and eventually beyon...
- More Delays: Artemis II Slips to April 2026, Artemis III to Mid-2027 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 5 Dec 2024 NASA’s program to return American astronauts to the Moon is encountering more delays. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced today that the second flight, Artemis II, is now planned for April
- NASA Flights Map Critical Minerals From Skies Above Western US Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 5 Dec 2024 Technology used to chart other worlds is revealing minerals in the American West that are critical to the country’s renewable energy future.
- NASA further delays next Artemis missions SpaceNews · 5 Dec 2024 WASHINGTON — NASA has further delayed the next two Artemis missions to the moon, pushing back the first crewed landing of the program to the middle of 2027. At a […]
- Space Station Trajectory Data NASA · 5 Dec 2024 International Space Station trajectory data is now available to the public! This data, called an ephemeris, is generated by the ISS Trajectory Operations and Planning Officer (TOPO) flight controllers in the Mission Cont...
- How did the CEO of an online payments firm become the nominee to lead NASA? Ars Technica · 5 Dec 2024 Expect significant changes for America's space agency.
- 2024 NESC Technical Update NASA · 5 Dec 2024 Annual Report of NESC Technical Activities On behalf of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC), I am pleased to provide you with the 2024 NESC Technical Update. This annual report summarizes the technical work, en...
- NASA Flights Map Critical Minerals from Skies Above Western US NASA · 5 Dec 2024 Technology used to chart other worlds is revealing minerals in the American West that are critical to the country’s renewable energy future.
- FAQ: NASA’s Artemis Campaign and Recent Updates NASA · 5 Dec 2024 The Artemis II test flight will be NASA’s first mission with crew under the Artemis campaign and will pave the way to land astronauts on the Moon on Artemis III and future missions. The crew of four aboard the agency’s O...
- NASA Shares Orion Heat Shield Findings, Updates Artemis Moon Missions NASA · 5 Dec 2024 Through the Artemis campaign, NASA will land the next American astronauts and first international astronaut on the South Pole region of the Moon. On Thursday, NASA announced the latest updates to its lunar exploration pl...
- NASA Identifies Cause of Artemis I Orion Heat Shield Char Loss NASA · 5 Dec 2024 After extensive analysis and testing, NASA has identified the technical cause of unexpected char loss across the Artemis I Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. Engineers determined as Orion was returning from its uncrewed mis...
- As it happened: NASA leadership announces delays to first Artemis crewed launch, Moon landing missions Spaceflight Now · 5 Dec 2024 NASA announced new delays for the Artemis Moon program at a news conference at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Artemis 2 mission to circle the Moon is now scheduled for 2026 and the first lunar landing...
- NASA’s Hubble Takes the Closest-Ever Look at a Quasar NASA · 5 Dec 2024 Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of an energetic monster black hole powering a quasar. A quasar is a galactic center that glows brigh...
- Matt Dominick’s X Account: A Visual Journey from Space NASA · 5 Dec 2024 NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Matthew Dominick launched to the International Space Station on March 3, 2024 as the commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. As a flight engineer aboard the orbiting la...
- NASA Astronauts Compete in ISS “Olympics” NASA · 5 Dec 2024 See the Content Online: Olympics Instagram | Olympics X | Olympics Website | NASA HQ YouTube | NASA Facebook | FLOTUS Instagram “Over the past few days on the International Space Station, we’ve had an absolute blast pret...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch latest broadcast satellite for SiriusXM on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Spaceflight Now · 5 Dec 2024 This will be the third satellite launched by SpaceX for the broadcast radio corporation. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for the opening of the 90-minute launch window at 11:10...
- NASA Flips Efficient Wing Concept for Testing NASA · 4 Dec 2024 Upside down can be right side up. That’s what NASA researchers determined for tests of an efficient wing concept that could be part of the agency’s answer to making future aircraft sustainable. Research from NASA’s Advan...
- Trump nominates Jared Isaacman to serve as next NASA administrator Spaceflight Now · 4 Dec 2024 If confirmed, Isaacman, 41, would be the fifth NASA administrator with spaceflight experience, replacing former Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, who flew into orbit aboard the space shuttle Columbia in early 1986.