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- Jared Isaacman nominated as next NASA administrator NASASpaceflight · 4 Dec 2024 Jared Isaacman has been nominated by President-Elect Donald Trump of the United States of America…
- NASA Leadership to Provide Update on Artemis Campaign NASA · 4 Dec 2024 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST, Thursday, Dec. 5, at the agency’s headquarters in Washington to provide a briefing about the agency’s Artemis campaign. Watch the m...
- Jared Isaacman Tapped to be Next NASA Administrator SpacePolicyOnline.com · 4 Dec 2024 President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Jared Isaacman as his nominee to be the next NASA Administrator. Isaacman is a tech industry billionaire who has flown two spaceflights on Elon Musk’s
- Trump selects Isaacman to be NASA administrator SpaceNews · 4 Dec 2024 President-elect Donald Trump has selected Jared Isaacman, a billionaire who has commanded two SpaceX commercial spaceflights, as his choice to be the next administrator of NASA.
- NASA’s C-20A Studies Extreme Weather Events NASA · 4 Dec 2024 On a changing planet, where phenomena like severe hurricanes, landslides, and wildfires are becoming more severe, scientists need data to assess and model disaster impacts and to potentially make predictions about hazard...
- 2024 AGU Fall Meeting Hyperwall Schedule NASA · 4 Dec 2024 NASA Science at AGU Fall Meeting Hyperwall Schedule, December 9-12, 2024 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #719) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. ***Copies of the 2025 NASA Scie...
- Expanded AI Model with Global Data Enhances Earth Science Applications NASA · 4 Dec 2024 NASA, IBM, and Forschungszentrum Jülich have released an expanded version of the open-source Prithvi Geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model to support a broader range of geographical applications. Now,...
- Lagniappe for December 2024 NASA · 4 Dec 2024 Explore Lagniappe for December 2024 featuring: Gator Speaks Do you have time for a quick story? Recently, your ol‘ friend Gator had the chance to help his family move. This move was not the same as going to the Moon or M...
- NASA Attorney Enjoys Serving Others and Contributing to the Team Mission NASA · 4 Dec 2024 NASA attorney Jeff Renshaw’s work has primarily revolved around two things: serving others and solving problems. The New Orleans native retired as an U.S. Air Force judge advocate following more than two decades of servi...
- White Sands Test Facility Encourages Locals to Leave Their Footprint on the Space Industry NASA · 4 Dec 2024 At the edge of Las Cruces, New Mexico, surrounded by miles of sunbaked earth, NASA’s White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is quietly shaping the future. There is no flash, no fanfare — the self-contained facility operates as...
- Webb finds surprises in Spiderweb protocluster field ESA · 4 Dec 2024 Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found new galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster. Their characteristics reveal that new galaxies are forming in these large cos...
- NASA Builds Bridges at Bayou Classic NASA · 3 Dec 2024 NASA was on full display during the 51st Annual Bayou Classic Fan Fest activity on Nov. 30, hosting an informational booth and interacting with event participants. Kicking off the Fan Fest on stage were Ken Newton, direc...
- Towards Autonomous Surface Missions on Ocean Worlds NASA · 3 Dec 2024 Through advanced autonomy testbed programs, NASA is setting the groundwork for one of its top priorities—the search for signs of life and potentially habitable bodies in our solar system and beyond. The prime destination...
- NASA-Led Team Links Comet Water to Earth’s Oceans NASA · 3 Dec 2024 Scientists find that cometary dust affects interpretation of spacecraft measurements, reopening the case for comets as potential sources of water for early Earth.
- Coming Spring 2025: Planetary Defenders Documentary NASA · 3 Dec 2024 ow would humanity respond if we discovered an asteroid headed for Earth? NASA’s Planetary Defenders is a gripping documentary that follows the dedicated scientists involved in the high-stakes world of asteroid detection...
- NASA Experts Share Inspiring Stories of Perseverance to Students NASA · 2 Dec 2024 In celebration of National Aviation History Month, experts from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, spoke with middle school students during a recent event hosted by NASA’s California Office o...
- Sols 4732-4735: I’ll Zap You, My Pretty, and Your Pebble Too NASA · 2 Dec 2024 Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 22, 2024 For more than a year, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been climbing through layers of sulfate-rich rock in Gale Crater, where alternating thick light- and dark-toned bands are visibl...
- Carnarvon's NASA satellite dish receives first signal in almost 40 years ABC News · 2 Dec 2024 A 29-metre-wide satellite dish that once aided NASA missions has received its first signal since being mothballed in 1987. Private aerospace company ThothX began refurbishing the parabolic antenna last year.
- A Mission at Home and at Work: Caregivers at Johnson Navigate Dual Role With Community Supports NASA · 2 Dec 2024 Many team members at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston may recognize Alicia Baker as the talented flutist in the Hispanic Employee Resource Group’s Mariachi Celestial band. Or, they may have worked with Baker in her...
- Expedition 71 Astronauts to Discuss Mission in NASA Welcome Home Event NASA · 2 Dec 2024 Dec. 2, 2024 RELEASE: J24-015 Expedition 71 Astronauts to Discuss Mission in NASA Welcome Home Event Four NASA astronauts will participate in a welcome home ceremony at Space Center Houston after recently returning from...
- What’s Up: December 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA NASA · 2 Dec 2024 Catch December’s Celestial Highlights! This month, Venus dazzles as the “Evening Star,” Jupiter reaches its brightest for the year, and the Geminid meteor shower peaks under challenging moonlit skies. Skywatching Highlig...
- NASA to Cover its 31st SpaceX Resupply Mission Station Departure NASA · 2 Dec 2024 NASA and its international partners are set to receive scientific research samples and hardware as a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 5, for its return to Earth. NASA’s l...
- Experience the Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission NASA · 2 Dec 2024 Digital content creators are invited to register to attend the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to carry astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of NASA’s Commercial...
- New Artemis Virtual Meeting Backgrounds Released Celebrating Artemis I, Looking to Artemis II and Beyond NASA · 2 Dec 2024 Virtual meetings feeling a little stale? NASA has just unveiled a suite of new Artemis backgrounds to elevate your digital workspace. From the majesty of the Artemis I launch lighting up the night sky to the iconic image...
- Foust Forward | Who gets the final word on Mars Sample Return? SpaceNews · 2 Dec 2024 By the end of this year, NASA may have a new plan in place for returning samples from Mars. The agency announced in October that it had convened an outside […]
- Over a month into mission, Europa Clipper continues deploying instruments NASASpaceflight · 1 Dec 2024 On Oct. 14, NASA’s groundbreaking Europa Clipper mission launched from Launch Complex 39A at the…
- NASA Set to Update Moon to Mars Architecture with ACR24 Space Scout · 30 Nov 2024 NASA is developing the latest version of its overarching vision for space exploration: the Moon to Mars Architecture. Amid an environment of questions about the Artemis Program, the agency’s year-long Strategic Analysis...
- Lockheed Martin unveils solar power array for Artemis program SpaceNews · 30 Nov 2024 NASA-funded technology aims to solve lunar power challenges
- NASA Provides More Details to Congress about VIPER Decision SpacePolicyOnline.com · 30 Nov 2024 NASA has provided more details of its decision to cancel the VIPER robotic lunar rover mission in response to a letter from a key House committee. It doesn’t specifically answer
- Aaron Yazzie: Bridging Indigenous Heritage and Space Exploration NASA · 27 Nov 2024 Aaron Yazzie’s dream of being part of humanity’s exploration of space took him on a journey from his childhood home on the Navajo Nation to working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. His jo...
- John Herrington Performs a Spacewalk NASA · 27 Nov 2024 On Nov. 30, 2002, NASA astronauts John Herrington (pictured) and Michael Lopez-Alegria performed the third and final spacewalk of the STS-113 mission. The goal of the mission was to install and activate the Port 1 Integr...
- NASA Plane Supported Innovative Microgravity Research in ‘90s NASA · 27 Nov 2024 A bell rings and a strobe light flashes as a pilot pulls the nose of the DC-9 aircraft up sharply. The blood quickly drains from researchers’ heads as they are pulled to the cabin floor by a force twice that of normal gr...
- VERITAS Venus mission seeks to avoid further delays SpaceNews · 27 Nov 2024 A NASA mission to Venus already delayed by three years because of institutional issues is seeking to avoid another delay of nearly a year and a half.
- NASA outlines impacts of VIPER on CLPS lunar lander program SpaceNews · 27 Nov 2024 NASA estimated it would have to cancel up to four commercial lunar lander missions and delay up to four more to fly a rover mission the agency announced in July it planned to cancel.
- NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Next-Generation Space Weather Sensors NASA · 26 Nov 2024 NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory of Laurel, Maryland, to build the Suprathermal Ion Sensors for the Lagrang...
- NASA, USAID Invite Media to Launch of New SERVIR Central America Hub NASA · 26 Nov 2024 NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) invite media to the official launch celebration of the new SERVIR Central America regional hub, located in Costa Rica, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 11 a.m. EST. Th...
- Selfie Time with Astronaut Victor Glover NASA · 26 Nov 2024 Employees at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and NASA astronaut Victor Glover (right) happily snap a photo of themselves during a visit on Nov. 8, 2024. The employees are part of the agency’s Exploration Ground Sy...
- NASA AI, Open Science Advance Natural Disaster Research and Recovery NASA · 26 Nov 2024 By Lauren Perkins When you think of NASA, disasters such as hurricanes may not be the first thing to come to mind, but several NASA programs are building tools and advancing science to help communities make more informed...
- Discovery Alert: a ‘Hot Neptune’ in a Tight Orbit NASA · 26 Nov 2024 By Grace Jacobs Corban The Discovery A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planet...
- Alfonso Delgado Bonal Has His Head in the Clouds — for Research NASA · 26 Nov 2024 Research scientist Alfonso Delgado Bonal makes important discoveries about patterns in cloud movements while thriving within the NASA Goddard family. Name: Alfonso Delgado BonalFormal Job Classification: Research scienti...