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- NASA Welcomes Estonia as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory NASA · 13 Oct 2024 While in Milan for international meetings, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was among the witnesses as Estonia signed the Artemis Accords and became the 45th nation to join the United States and other signatories agreeing...
- A Serendipitous NASA Family Reunion NASA · 13 Oct 2024 Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn’t imagine that one day she would work at NASA. Today, she serves as technical project coordinator at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, supporting its Aeronautic...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to attempt first booster catch during the Starship Flight 5 mission Spaceflight Now · 13 Oct 2024 The launch continues SpaceX’s advancement of the rocket, which is key not only to its ambitions, but also to NASA’s Artemis program. Liftoff from Starbase is set for 7 a.m. CDT (1200 UTC), the start of a 30-minute launch...
- Can Life Exist on an Icy Moon? NASA’s Europa Clipper Aims to Find Out Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 13 Oct 2024 With a spacecraft launching soon, the mission will try to answer the question of whether there are ingredients suitable for life in the ocean below Europa’s icy crust.
- Can Life Exist on an Icy Moon? NASA’s Europa Clipper Aims to Find Out NASA · 13 Oct 2024 With a spacecraft launching soon, the mission will try to answer the question of whether there are ingredients suitable for life in the ocean below Europa’s icy crust. Deep down, in an ocean beneath its ice shell, Jupite...
- NASA Updates Coverage for Europa Clipper Following Hurricane Milton Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 13 Oct 2024 Find details on teleconferences with mission members and NASA leadership, the launch preview, and the live launch broadcast.
- Space Trifecta on Tap Tomorrow Morning SpacePolicyOnline.com · 12 Oct 2024 A space trifecta of sorts is coming up tomorrow morning, October 13. At the moment, within an hour-and-a-half NASA’s Crew-8 will depart the International Space Station, SpaceX will launch the...
- NASA Activates Resources to Help Assess Impacts from Hurricane Milton NASA · 12 Oct 2024 In the wake of Hurricane Milton, NASA is deploying resources to support Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and state emergency management agencies to aid their response effort including satellite and aerial data...
- NASA Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2024 NASA · 11 Oct 2024 In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize Hispanic astronauts who have flown in space. The table below lists these individuals of various nationalities who have made significant contributions to their space progr...
- NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-8 Return, Splashdown NASA · 11 Oct 2024 NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 7:05 a.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 13, for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to undock from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, the earliest splashdown time...
- Ancient Comet Makes Appearance NASA · 11 Oct 2024 NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this timelapse photo of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) International Space Station as it orbited 272 miles above the South Pacific Ocean southeast of New Zealand just before...
- ESA/NASA’s SOHO Spies Bright Comet Making Debut in Evening Sky NASA · 11 Oct 2024 The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured images of the second-brightest comet to ever pass through its field of view, comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.
- Pioneering NASA Astronaut Health Tech Thwarts Heart Failure NASA · 11 Oct 2024 Prioritizing health is important on Earth, and it’s even more important in space. Exploring beyond the Earth’s surface exposes humans to conditions that can impact blood pressure, bone density, immune health, and much mo...
- Controlled Propulsion for Gentle Landings NASA · 11 Oct 2024 A valve designed for NASA rover landings enables effective stage separations for commercial spaceflight
- Europa Clipper Set to Revolutionize Jovian Science Space Scout · 11 Oct 2024 NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, a 5 billion dollar Jovian orbiter, will aim to answer questions about one of the most tantalizing candidates for life in the solar system: the gas giant’s icy moon of Europa.
- Planning our lunar return? Get a telescope SpaceNews · 11 Oct 2024 Perhaps you’re a propulsion engineer making lunar landers as part of NASA’s CLPS program. Perhaps you’re a lawyer specializing in the OST. Or you are a chemist cracking the codes
- Hubble Spots a Grand Spiral of Starbursts NASA · 11 Oct 2024 The sparkling scene depicted in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is of the spiral galaxy NGC 5248, located 42 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Boötes. It is also known as Caldwell 45. The Cal...
- Igniting Inspiration: Jennifer Becerra’s STEM Legacy at Johnson NASA · 10 Oct 2024 Jennifer Becerra has nearly three decades of experience in education, both in the classroom and within the NASA community. Leading a team dedicated to fostering a passion for science, technology, engineering, and mathema...
- NASA Awards Aerospace Research, Technology, and Simulations Contract NASA · 10 Oct 2024 NASA has selected Metis Technology Solutions Inc. of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide engineering services as well as develop and maintain software and hardware used to conduct simulations for aerospace research and d...
- NASA Highlights Low Earth Orbit, Sustainability at Space Conference NASA · 10 Oct 2024 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will lead the agency’s delegation at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) from Monday, Oct. 14, to Thursday, Oct. 17, in Milan. During the cong...
- First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected With NASA-Designed Instrument NASA · 10 Oct 2024 The imaging spectrometer aboard the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager-1 satellite identified methane and carbon dioxide plumes in the United States and internationally. Using data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Je...
- Ring Around the Mountain NASA · 10 Oct 2024 On June 10, 2023, the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8 acquired this image of Mount Taranaki, a snow-capped mountain in New Zealand that is ringed by a dark green forest. Two older and extinct volcanoes, Kaitake and...
- First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected With NASA-Designed Instrument Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 10 Oct 2024 The imaging spectrometer aboard the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager-1 satellite identified methane and carbon dioxide plumes in the United States and internationally.
- Lunar Autonomy Mobility Pathfinder Workshop: A NASA Chief Technologist Sponsored Workshop NASA · 10 Oct 2024 OVERVIEW The NASA chief technologist’s team, within the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS), is hosting a Lunar Autonomy Mobility Pathfinder (LAMP) workshop on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, to provide a commu...
- Kathryn Sullivan: The First American Woman to Walk in Space NASA · 10 Oct 2024 Forty years ago, in October 1984, Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space. But being the first presented several challenges that started well before she took those historic steps. Things got...
- Does Distant Planet Host Volcanic Moon Like Jupiter’s Io? NASA · 10 Oct 2024 The existence of a moon located outside our solar system has never been confirmed but a new NASA-led study may provide indirect evidence for one. New research done at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveals potential si...
- Does Distant Planet Host Volcanic Moon Like Jupiter’s Io? Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 10 Oct 2024 The existence of a moon located outside our solar system has never been confirmed but a new NASA-led study may provide indirect evidence for one.
- NASA “really looking forward” to next Starship test flight SpaceNews · 9 Oct 2024 As SpaceX prepares for the test flight of its Starship vehicle, NASA is closely watching as it waits for the company to achieve the next milestones on development of the lunar lander version of the vehicle.
- The Marshall Star for October 9, 2024 NASA · 9 Oct 2024 Marshall Lends Insight, Expertise to Auburn Aerospace Industry Day Event By Rick Smith Nearly 500 students and faculty of Auburn University gathered on campus Sept. 30-Oct. 2 to hear lectures from leading NASA propulsion...
- NASA Astronauts, Leadership Visit Children’s Hospital, Cancer Moonshot Event NASA · 9 Oct 2024 NASA astronauts, scientists, and researchers, and leadership from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) met with cancer patients and gathered in a discussion about potential research opportunities and collab...
- Project Engineer Miranda Peters Flips the Script on Neurological Differences NASA · 9 Oct 2024 In her six years working with NASA, Miranda Peters has filled a variety of roles. She trained in flight control for the International Space Station, worked as a safety engineer in the station’s program office, and served...
- NASA’s Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus NASA · 9 Oct 2024 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different viewpoints. The results...
- Ocean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Station SpaceNews · 9 Oct 2024 GOLDEN, Colorado — NASA is faced with the challenge of safely deorbiting, in one fell swoop, over 400 tons of space hardware in a few years. As of now, the
- Artemis I Radiation Measurements Validate Orion Safety for Astronauts NASA · 9 Oct 2024 NASA’s Orion spacecraft is designed to keep astronauts safe in deep space, protecting them from the unforgiving environment far from Earth. During the uncrewed Artemis I mission, researchers from NASA, along with several...
- NASA’s Hubble Watches Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball NASA · 9 Oct 2024 Astronomers have observed Jupiter’s legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises – especially when NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope...
- NASA Terminal Transmits First Laser Communications Uplink to Space NASA · 9 Oct 2024 NASA’s LCOT (Low-Cost Optical Terminal), a ground station made of modified commercial hardware, transmitted its first laser communications uplink to the TBIRD (TeraByte Infrared Delivery), a tissue box-sized payload form...
- How Do Astronauts Get in Shape? – New “Ask SME” from NASA eClips NASA · 9 Oct 2024 The NASA Science Activation program’s NASA eClips project, led by the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), aims to increase Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) literacy and inspire the next generatio...
- NASA-Funded Study Assesses Pollution Near Los Angeles-Area Warehouses NASA · 9 Oct 2024 Satellite-based data offers a broad view of particulate air pollution patterns across a major West Coast e-commerce hub. As goods of all shapes and sizes journey from factory to doorstep, chances are they’ve stopped at a...
- NASA-Funded Study Assesses Pollution Near Los Angeles-Area Warehouses Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 9 Oct 2024 Satellite-based data offers a broad view of particulate air pollution patterns across a major West Coast e-commerce hub.
- Black Hole Destroys Star, Goes After Another, NASA Missions Find NASA · 9 Oct 2024 NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have identified a supermassive black hole that has torn apart one star and is now using that stellar wreckage to pummel another star or smaller black hole, as describ...