Artemis I Moon Tree Stewards
NASA · 31 Oct 2024
Artemis I Moon Tree seedlings continue to find new homes with schools, museums, libraries, universities, and community organizations across the contiguous United States. An open call to NASA’s Artifacts Module in Fall, 2...
Why NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Make ‘Most Colorful’ Cosmic Map Ever
NASA · 31 Oct 2024
The space telescope will detect over 100 colors from hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies. Here’s what astronomers will do with all that color. NASA’s SPHEREx mission won’t be the first space telescope to observe h...
‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy Pair
NASA · 31 Oct 2024
Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly “stare” of their searing eye-like cores shines out into the supreme cosmic darkness. It’s good fo...
NASA updates list of Artemis 3 landing sites
SpaceNews · 31 Oct 2024
NASA has updated a list of candidate landing sites near the south pole of the moon for the Artemis 3 mission, taking into account surface conditions and capabilities of SpaceX’s Starship lander.
The Marshall Star for October 30, 2024
NASA · 30 Oct 2024
Editor’s Note: Starting Nov. 4, the Office of Communications at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will no longer publish the Marshall Star on nasa.gov. The last public issue will be Oct. 30. To continue reading Marshal...
Buckle Up: NASA-Funded Study Explores Turbulence in Molecular Clouds
NASA · 30 Oct 2024
On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in a bumpy flight. Turbulence on a much larger scale is important to how stars form in giant molecular clouds t...
60 Years Ago: Lunar Landing Research Vehicle Takes Flight
NASA · 30 Oct 2024
NASA pilot Joe Walker sits in the pilot’s platform of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) number 1 on Oct. 30, 1964. The LLRV and its successor the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV) provided the training tool t...
NASA’s Perseverance Captures ‘Googly Eye’ During Solar Eclipse
NASA · 30 Oct 2024
The tiny, potato-shaped moon Phobos, one of two Martian moons, cast a silhouette as it passed in front of the Sun, creating an eye in Mars’ sky. From its perch on the western wall of Mars’ Jezero Crater, NASA’s Persevera...
NASA to Launch Innovative Solar Coronagraph to Space Station
NASA · 30 Oct 2024
NASA’s Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is ready to launch to the International Space Station to reveal new details about the solar wind including its origin and its evolution. Launching in November 2024 aboard Spac...
NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024
Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 30 Oct 2024
Honorees include the agency’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment, and Europa Clipper.
NASA Brings Drone and Space Rover to Air Show
NASA · 30 Oct 2024
Lee esta historia en Español aquí. In September, the three NASA centers in California came together to share aerospace innovations with thousands of guests at the Miramar Air Show in San Diego, California. Agency experts...
NASA Sets Coverage for SpaceX 31st Station Resupply Launch, Arrival
NASA · 30 Oct 2024
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 9:29 p.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 4, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the 31st SpaceX commercial resupply...
NASA, NOAA Rank 2024 Ozone Hole as 7th-Smallest Since Recovery Began
NASA · 30 Oct 2024
Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern pole was relatively small in 2024 compared to other years. Scientists with NASA and the National...
NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024
NASA · 30 Oct 2024
As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for space travel, enable communications with spacecraft at record-breaking distances, and determine...
VIPER Passes All Its Tests, But Future Still Uncertain
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 30 Oct 2024
The project scientist for NASA’s VIPER lunar rover said today the spacecraft has successfully completed all of its pre-launch tests, but its future remains uncertain. NASA intends to terminate the...
China chooses 2 teams to develop low-cost space station cargo spacecraft
SpaceNews · 29 Oct 2024
HELSINKI — China’s human spaceflight agency has selected two proposals to develop spacecraft for low-cost space station resupply missions, echoing earlier moves by NASA. The China Manned Space Engineering Office
Ken Iliff: Engineering 40 Years of Success
NASA · 29 Oct 2024
Editor’s note: This article was published May 23, 2003, in NASA Armstrong’s X-Press newsletter. NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was redesignated Armstrong Flight Research Center on March 1, 2...
Carissa Arillo: Testing Spacecraft, Penning the Owner’s Manuals
NASA · 29 Oct 2024
Flight operations engineer Carissa Arillo helped ensure one of the instruments on NASA’s PACE mission made it successfully through its prelaunch testing. She and her group also documented the work rigorously, to ensure t...
NASA Sets Coverage for its SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon Station Relocation
NASA · 29 Oct 2024
In preparation for the arrival of NASA’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply services mission, four crew members aboard the International Space Station will relocate the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft to a differen...
How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Could Decipher the Moon’s Icy Secrets
NASA · 29 Oct 2024
There’s water on the Moon, but scientists only have a general idea of where it is and what form it is in. A trailblazing NASA mission will get some answers. When NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer begins orbiting the Moon next yea...
Memorable Moment 2024
NASA · 29 Oct 2024
As a NASA Community Anchor, Union Station (Kansas City, KS) has welcomed over 1,100 students from different Kansas City area schools to our Spectra programming, which includes all expense paid field trips, Planetarium sh...
NASA Helps Find Thawing Permafrost Adds to Near-Term Global Warming
NASA · 29 Oct 2024
Earth’s far northern reaches have locked carbon underground for millennia. New research paints a picture of a landscape in change. A new study, co-authored by NASA scientists, details where and how greenhouse gases are e...
NASA Group Amplifies Voices of Employees with Disabilities
NASA · 29 Oct 2024
Kathy Clark started her career at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland straight out of high school, and when offered either a job as an accountant or a job in training, the choice was crystal clear. “I started in tr...
NASA Relaunches Mentor-Protégé Program to Fill Supply Chain Gaps
NASA · 29 Oct 2024
In an effort to grow new commercial markets that support the future of space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research, NASA is preparing to relaunch its Mentor-Protégé Program for contractors on Friday...
New NASA Instrument for Studying Snowpack Completes Airborne Testing
NASA · 29 Oct 2024
Summer heat has significant effects in the mountainous regions of the western United States. Melted snow washes from snowy peaks into the rivers, reservoirs, and streams that supply millions of Americans with freshwater—...
Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster
NASA · 28 Oct 2024
Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out large amounts of high-energy radiation, which can disrupt relatively fragile disks of dust and...
Watch How Students Help NASA Grow Plants in Space: Growing Beyond Earth
NASA · 28 Oct 2024
Since 2015, students from across the USA have been partnering with scientists at NASA to advance research on growing plants in space, ultimately to feed astronauts on long-distance space missions, as part of Fairchild Tr...
An Opportunity to Study Water
NASA · 28 Oct 2024
NASA astronaut Don Pettit fills a sphere of water with food coloring in this image from Oct. 20, 2024. Pettit calls experiments like these “science of opportunity” – moments of scientific exploration that spontaneously c...
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Looks Back While Climbing Slippery Slope
NASA · 28 Oct 2024
On its way up the side of Jezero Crater, the agency’s latest Red Planet off-roader peers all the way back to its landing site and scopes the path ahead. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is negotiating a steeply sloping rou...
NASA Identifies Root Cause of Orion Heat Shield Char Loss
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 28 Oct 2024
NASA has identified the root cause of the unexpected char loss on Orion’s heat shield after it returned from the Artemis I uncrewed test flight to the Moon almost two...