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NASA Pilots Add Perspective to Research
NASA · 16 Oct 2024
NASA research pilots are experts on how to achieve the right flight-test conditions for experiments and the tools needed for successful missions. It is that expertise that enables pilots to help researchers learn how an...
New Team to Assess NASA’s Mars Sample Return Architecture Proposals
NASA · 16 Oct 2024
NASA announced Wednesday a new strategy review team will assess potential architecture adjustments for the agency’s Mars Sample Return Program, which aims to bring back scientifically selected samples from Mars, and is a...
Sacrifice and Success: NASA Engineer Honors Family Roots
NASA · 16 Oct 2024
Lee esta historia en Español aquí. Born and raised in Peru, Daniel Velasquez moved to the United States when was 10 years old. While that decision was a big transition for his family, it also created many opportunities f...
The Marshall Star for October 16, 2024
NASA · 16 Oct 2024
Liftoff! NASA’s Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have...
NASA Seeks Innovative Ideas with Revamped Procurement Framework
NASA · 16 Oct 2024
NASA is announcing the relaunch of the NASA Acquisition Innovation Launchpad (NAIL), a framework to drive innovation and modernize acquisition processes across the agency, after piloting the program for a year. NASA spen...
Hubble captures intricacies of R Aquarii
ESA · 16 Oct 2024
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colourful close-up look at one of the most boisterous stars in our galaxy, weaving a huge spiral pattern among the stars. Hubble's images capturing its deta...
NASA to Embrace Commercial Sector, Fly Out Legacy Relay Fleet
NASA · 16 Oct 2024
NASA is one step closer on its transition to using commercially owned and operated satellite communications services to provide future near-Earth space missions with increased service coverage, availability, and accelera...
NASA’s Hubble Sees a Stellar Volcano
NASA · 16 Oct 2024
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colorful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars in our galaxy, weaving a huge spiral pattern among the stars. Located approximately 700 light-years a...
Dr. Rickey Shyne Named Crain’s Notable Black Leader
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
Dr. Rickey J. Shyne, director of Research and Engineering at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has been named one of Crain’s Cleveland Business’ 2024 Notable Black Leaders. Shyne is responsible for leading a sta...
$1.5 Million Awarded at Watts on the Moon Finals
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
Great Lakes Science Center, home of the visitor center for NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, hosted the final phase of NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge on Sept. 20. NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen attended to hel...
Ohio State Marching Band Performs Tribute to NASA
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
The Ohio State University (OSU) teamed up with NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland for a multi-faceted tribute to NASA on Sept 21. During a home football game against Marshall University, OSU’s Marching Band recogn...
NASA Glenn Connects with Morehead State University
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
NASA’s Glenn Research Center Director Dr. Jimmy Kenyon met with students and faculty at Morehead State University (MSU) in Kentucky on Sept. 19. Kenyon provided the keynote address on the topic of NASA’s exploration effo...
Visitors Explore NASA at Ingenuity Fest
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
NASA’s Glenn Research Center participated in the Cleveland Ingenuity Fest 2024: Take Flight on Sept. 27-29. Ingenuity Fest, held at the 300,000-square-foot Hamilton Collaborative, features artwork, musicians, dancers, po...
NASA Glenn’s Photographers Capture Harvest Moon
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
The Harvest Moon refers to the nearest full Moon to the autumnal equinox. The Moon appeared full for about three days last month from the evening of Monday, Sept. 16, through Thursday morning, Sept. 19. The brightest Moo...
Artemis II Crew Visits NASA Glenn
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
Three of the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed flight paving the way for future lunar surface missions, visited NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Sept. 10-11. NASA...
NASA, NOAA: Sun Reaches Maximum Phase in 11-Year Solar Cycle
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
In a teleconference with reporters on Tuesday, representatives from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel announced that the Sun has reached...
Europa Clipper Begins Journey to Jupiter’s Icy Moon
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. Europa Clipper is the first mission designed to conduct a detailed st...
Cassini Mission: 5 Things to Know About NASA Lewis’ Last Launch
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
NASA’s ambitious Cassini mission to Saturn in the late 1990s was one of the agency’s greatest accomplishments, providing unprecedented revelations about the esoteric outer planet and its moons. The complex undertaking wa...
Snippet of Euclid Mission’s Cosmic Atlas Released by ESA
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
With contributions from NASA, the mission will map a third of the sky in order to study a cosmic mystery called dark energy. ESA (the European Space Agency) has released a new, 208-gigapixel mosaic of images taken by Euc...
NASA Administrator to Visit, Engage Officials in Romania, Bulgaria
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
Continuing his efforts to deepen international collaboration and promote the peaceful use of space, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will travel to Romania and Bulgaria, beginning Thursday, Oct. 17. Both countries have sig...
Eclipse Megamovie Coding Competition
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
Making the most of a solar eclipse demands attention to detail. Do you have what it takes? NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie project launched a new coding competition, and they need your help to organize images from the April 8,...
Revealing the Hidden Universe with Full-shell X-ray Optics at NASA MSFC
NASA · 15 Oct 2024
The study of X-ray emission from astronomical objects reveals secrets about the Universe at the largest and smallest spatial scales. Celestial X-rays are produced by black holes consuming nearby stars, emitted by the mil...
Comet C/2023 A3 brightens SOHO’s week
ESA · 15 Oct 2024
From 7 until 13 October 2024, ESA/NASA’s SOHO spacecraft recorded Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), the second brightest comet it has ever seen. Meanwhile, large amounts of material were being spewed out by the Sun (c...
Thales to Supersize Europe’s Gateway Contribution with €164M Contract
European Spaceflight · 15 Oct 2024
Thales Alenia Space has been awarded a €164 million ESA contract amendment to build a larger than originally planned ESPRIT module for NASA’s lunar Gateway space station. Europe’s contributions to Gateway were formalized...
Launch Roundup: Europa Clipper launches, Starlink launches return
NASASpaceflight · 14 Oct 2024
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) recent decision to clear SpaceX’s Falcon 9 for a return to all flights paved the way for a busy week of launches. Before Falcon 9 returned to flying regular Starlink missions,...
Falcon Heavy launches NASA’s Europa Clipper mission
SpaceNews · 14 Oct 2024
A long-awaited mission to study if an icy moon of Jupiter could harbor life is on its way after a launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket Oct. 14.
Liftoff! NASA’s Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter
NASA · 14 Oct 2024
NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m....
NASA, SpaceX launch historic Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter
NASASpaceflight · 14 Oct 2024
NASA and SpaceX have launched NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Falcon Heavy launched during an instantaneous launch window on Monday, Oct. 14, at 12:05 PM EDT...
NASA Spotlight: Felipe Valdez, an Inspiring Engineer
NASA · 14 Oct 2024
Felipe Valdez is someone who took advantage of every possible opportunity at NASA, working his way from undergraduate intern to his current job as a flight controls engineer. Born in the United States but raised in Mexic...
Juice and Europa Clipper: Dream team to Jupiter
ESA · 14 Oct 2024
What’s better than one spacecraft on the quest to search for life-friendly ocean worlds in the Jupiter system? Two! ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is set to join forces with NASA’s Europa Clipper – launched on...
Europa Clipper ready for launch
SpaceNews · 14 Oct 2024
NASA and SpaceX are ready to launch a multibillion-dollar mission to a moon of Jupiter to see if that world could support life.
Europa Clipper Ready for Launch Tomorrow
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 13 Oct 2024
NASA, SpaceX, and the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron gave the green light this afternoon for Europa Clipper to launch tomorrow at 12:06 pm ET. The weather is 95...
Vast releases design of Haven-2 commercial space station
SpaceNews · 13 Oct 2024
Vast Space unveiled the design of the space station it plans to propose to NASA in the next phase of the agency’s program to develop commercial successors to the International Space Station.
Journey to a Water World: NASA’s Europa Clipper Is Ready to Launch
Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 13 Oct 2024
Find details about the launch sequences for the orbiter, which is targeting an Oct. 14 liftoff on its mission to search for ingredients of life at Jupiter’s moon Europa.