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This Thanksgiving, We’re Grateful for NASA’s Amateur Scientists!
NASA · 26 Nov 2024
This year, we’re giving thanks to you for Doing NASA Science! You and the millions of other volunteers have enabled an incredible banquet of discoveries—by taking data, analyzing data, writing code, writing papers, and e...
NASA Data Reveals Role of Green Spaces in Cooling Cities
NASA · 26 Nov 2024
As any urban dweller who has lived through a heat wave knows, a shady tree can make all the difference. But what happens when there’s no shade available? A recent study in Nature Communications used NASA satellite data t...
Art Meets Exploration: Cosmic Connections in Galveston
NASA · 26 Nov 2024
The Texas Art Education Association hosted its annual conference from Nov. 14–16 at Moody Gardens Hotel & Convention Center in Galveston, Texas, drawing nearly 3,000 educators, administrators, and artists. This year’s th...
Emerging Engineering Leader Basil Baldauff Emphasizes Osage Values
NASA · 26 Nov 2024
Basil Baldauff knew early in his tenure at NASA’s Johnson Space Center that he wanted to become a leader within the agency and make an impact on the future of space exploration. As a contract electrical design and test e...
NASA’s Commercial Partners Make Progress on Low Earth Orbit Projects
NASA · 25 Nov 2024
NASA and its commercial partners continue to drive innovation in space exploration, achieving milestones that will ultimately benefit human spaceflight and commercial low Earth orbit efforts. These recent achievements fr...
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Dragonfly Mission
NASA · 25 Nov 2024
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission, a rotorcraft lander mission under NASA’s New Frontiers Program, designed to explore Saturn’s moon Titan. The mission will sample materials an...
Mini NASA Robot Takes a SWIM
NASA · 25 Nov 2024
A 16.5-inch-long prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons is reflected in the water’s surface during a test in a competition swimming pool in September 2024. Conducted by NASA’s Jet Propuls...
NASA Ames Stars of the Month: November 2024
NASA · 25 Nov 2024
The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Forrest Melton, Ariel Deutsch, Dan Sirbu, and Chanel Idos. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrep...
NASA’s Europa Clipper: Millions of Miles Down, Instruments Deploying
NASA · 25 Nov 2024
Headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft is operating without a hitch and will reach Mars in just three months for a gravity assist. NASA’s Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter’s moon Eur...
NASA, JAXA XRISM Mission Looks Deeply Into ‘Hidden’ Stellar System
NASA · 25 Nov 2024
The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within Cygnus X-3, one of the most studied sources in the X-ray sky. Cygnus X-3 is a b...
NASA Invites Media to Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Launch to Moon
NASA · 25 Nov 2024
Media accreditation is open for the next delivery to the Moon through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign for the benefit of humanity. A six-day launch window opens no earlier...
Sombrero Galaxy dazzles in new Webb image
ESA · 25 Nov 2024
A new mid-infrared image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the Sombrero galaxy, also known as Messier 104 (M104). The signature, glowing core seen in visible-light images does not shine, and inste...
Hats Off to NASA’s Webb: Sombrero Galaxy Dazzles in New Image
NASA · 25 Nov 2024
In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target. In Webb’s mid-infrared view of the Sombrero galaxy, also known...
NASA to make lunar cargo delivery awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX
SpaceNews · 24 Nov 2024
NASA plans to use cargo versions of Artemis lunar landers under development by Blue Origin and SpaceX to deliver a pressurized rover and surface habitat to the lunar surface in the early 2030s.
Artemis and the New Administration
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 23 Nov 2024
As the NASA community ponders how the agency, especially the Artemis program, may fare in the second Trump Administration, one industry veteran is suggesting a new policy approach: have NASA
SARP East 2024 Ocean Remote Sensing Group
NASA · 22 Nov 2024
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Tom Bell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Dr. Kelsey Bisson, NASA Headquarters Science Mission Directorate Graduate Mentor: Kelby Kramer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kelby Kramer, Gra...
NASA Awards Safety, Health, Medical, Mission Assurance Contract
NASA · 22 Nov 2024
NASA has awarded Bastion Technologies Inc., of Houston, the Center Occupational Safety, Health, Medical, System Safety and Mission Assurance Contract (COSMC) at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon V...
NASA Leadership to Visit, Strengthen Cooperation with Mexico
NASA · 22 Nov 2024
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, will travel to Mexico City on Sunday, Nov. 24, for a multi-day trip to build on previous engagements an...
Icelandic Cyclones
NASA · 22 Nov 2024
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer flying aboard NASA’s Terra satellite took this picture of two cyclones near Iceland on Nov. 20, 2006. Though we usually think of cyclones occurring in the tropics, these...
Why NASA Is a Great Place to Launch Your Career
NASA · 22 Nov 2024
Recently recognized as the most prestigious internship program by Vault.com, NASA has empowered countless students and early-career professionals to launch careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (ST...
Texas A&M Breaks Ground at NASA Johnson for Giant Leap in Space Innovation
NASA · 22 Nov 2024
The future of human space exploration took a bold step forward at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Nov. 15, 2024, as Texas A&M University leaders’ broke ground for the Texas A&M University Space Institute. Texas...
Hubble Captures an Edge-On Spiral with Curve Appeal
NASA · 22 Nov 2024
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. We don’t see the galaxy’s spiral arms because we are seeing it from the side. Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth in th...
Space station developers weigh in on NASA’s continuous presence rethink
SpaceNews · 22 Nov 2024
Commercial space station developers are questioning whether NASA’s reconsideration of continuous human presence in low Earth orbit risks holding back International Space Station alternatives.
NASA Langley Employees Earn Silver Snoopy Awards
NASA · 21 Nov 2024
Two employees from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently earned the prestigious Silver Snoopy award, an honor given to NASA employees and contractors across the agency for outstanding achievements...
NASA Awards Test Operations Contract
NASA · 21 Nov 2024
NASA has selected Sierra Lobo, Inc. of Fremont, Ohio, to provide for test operations, test support, and technical system maintenance activities at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The NASA Ste...
FAQ: The Real Story About Astronaut Health Care in Space
NASA · 21 Nov 2024
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The International Space Station is humanity’s home in space and a research station orbiting about 250 miles above the Earth. NASA and its international partners have maintained a contin...
Ready, Set, Action! Our Sun is the Star in Dazzling Simulation
NASA · 21 Nov 2024
NASA supercomputers are shedding light on what causes some of the Sun’s most complex behaviors. Using data from the suite of active Sun-watching spacecraft currently observing the star at the heart of our solar system, r...
NASA: Mystery of Life’s Handedness Deepens
NASA · 21 Nov 2024
The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a NASA-funded discovery that RNA — a key molecule thought to have potentially held the instructions for life before DNA emerged — can fa...
NASA’s Hubble Finds Sizzling Details About Young Star FU Orionis
NASA · 21 Nov 2024
In 1936, astronomers saw a puzzling event in the constellation Orion: the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) became a hundred times brighter in a matter of months. At its peak, FU Ori was intrinsically 100 times brighter tha...
Weld-ASSIST: Weldability Assessment for In-Space Conditions using a Digital Twin
NASA · 21 Nov 2024
ESI24 Haghighi Quadchart Azadeh HaghighiUniversity of Illinois, Chicago In-space manufacturing and assembly are vital to NASA’s long-term exploration goals, especially for the Moon and Mars missions. Deploying welding te...
NASA, SpaceX Illustrate Key Moments of Artemis Lunar Lander Mission
NASA · 20 Nov 2024
NASA is working with U.S. industry to develop the human landing systems that will safely carry astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back throughout the agency’s Artemis campaign. For Artemis III, th...
STS-129 Crew Aboard the Space Station
NASA · 20 Nov 2024
The STS-129 crew members pose for a portrait following a joint news conference with the Expedition 21 crew members on Nov. 24, 2009. Astronauts Charles O. Hobaugh, Mike Foreman, Leland Melvin, Robert L. Satcher Jr., Rand...