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  • Starliner astronauts adjust to long-term ISS stay SpaceNews · 13 Sep 2024 The NASA astronauts left on the International Space Station after Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth uncrewed said they supported NASA’s decision but believed that, given more time, the agency may ha...
  • Augustine: NASA Needs to Focus on the Basics–Infrastructure, Workforce, Technology SpacePolicyOnline.com · 13 Sep 2024 A new report from the National Academies warns NASA that it needs to focus on the basics even if it means forgoing new missions. Chaired by Norm Augustine, the report...
  • NASA Ames Selects Aeronautics and Exploration Support Contractor NASA · 13 Sep 2024 NASA has awarded the NASA Academic Mission Services 2 (NAMS-2) contract to Crown Consulting Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, to provide the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, aeronautics and explo...
  • NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards NASA · 13 Sep 2024 Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, with a correct phone number for the media contact at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. NASA‘s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation...
  • NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge NASA · 13 Sep 2024 The Digital Information Platform (DIP) Sub-Project of Air Traffic Management – eXploration (ATM-X) is seeking to make available in the National Airspace System a variety of live data feeds and services built on that data...
  • NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training NASA · 13 Sep 2024 At first glance, it seems like a scene from an excursion on the Moon’s surface…except the people are in hiking gear, not spacesuits.
  • NASA Taps Finland’s ICEYE to Provide Earth Observation Data European Spaceflight · 13 Sep 2024 Finnish Earth observation data provider ICEYE has won a five-year contract with NASA to provide radar satellite imagery for Earth science and research purposes. ICEYE owns and operates the world’s largest constellation o...
  • Hubble Examines a Spiral Star Factory NASA · 13 Sep 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668. It is relatively near to us at 90 million light-years from Earth and quite accessible for astronomers to stud...
  • Testing Europa Clipper’s Solar Arrays NASA · 12 Sep 2024 On Aug. 21, 2024, engineers and technicians deployed and tested NASA’s Europa Clipper giant solar arrays. Each array measures about 46.5 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13.5 feet (4.1 meters) high. Europa Clipper is sc...
  • NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Conduct Space Station Research NASA · 12 Sep 2024 NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are headed to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission in September. Once on station, these crew members will support sci...
  • Ice-hunting Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2 nearly ready for January 2025 launch SpaceNews · 12 Sep 2024 GOLDEN, Colorado — Finding exploitable water ice at the lunar south pole is high on the agenda of NASA’s Artemis program. If reservoirs of water ice exist in lunar cold
  • Ready at Kennedy ESA · 12 Sep 2024 Unboxing ESA's third European Service Module at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
  • NASA Moon to Mars Architecture Art Challenge NASA · 12 Sep 2024 NASA wants you to visualize the future of space exploration! This art challenge is looking for creative, artistic images to represent NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture, the agency’s roadmap for crewed exploration of deep...
  • NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives NASA · 12 Sep 2024 NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) following a policy directive from the White House in April. The agen...
  • NASA’s Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 12 Sep 2024 The telescope’s MIRI instrument, managed through launch by JPL, is helping provide new insights about the sparse outer regions of the Milky Way.
  • NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy NASA · 12 Sep 2024 Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away fro...
  • Foust Forward | Auditing the auditors SpaceNews · 12 Sep 2024 On Aug. 27, NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an audit of Mobile Launcher 2, the mobile launch platform the agency is building for the Block 1B version of
  • The Marshall Star for September 11, 2024 NASA · 11 Sep 2024 Starship Super Heavy Breezes Through Wind Tunnel Testing NASA and its industry partners continue to make progress toward Artemis III and beyond, the first crewed lunar landing missions under the agency’s Artemis campaign...
  • NASA Evaluating 11 VIPER Proposals as Congress Asks Questions SpacePolicyOnline.com · 11 Sep 2024 NASA is evaluating 11 responses from organizations large and small that might want to take over the VIPER lunar rover project. NASA intends to cancel VIPER because of cost growth
  • NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Arrive at Space Station NASA · 11 Sep 2024 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its number of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover period....
  • NASA to Preview Europa Clipper Mission to Jupiter Moon Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 11 Sep 2024 Targeting an Oct. 10 launch, Europa Clipper aims to determine whether Jupiter’s moon Europa potentially has the ingredients necessary for life.
  • NASA to Preview Europa Clipper Mission to Jupiter Moon NASA · 11 Sep 2024 NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to discuss the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The briefin...
  • NASA Finds Summer 2024 Hottest to Date NASA · 11 Sep 2024 The agency also shared new state-of-the-art datasets that allow scientists to track Earth’s temperature for any month and region going back to 1880 with greater certainty. August 2024 set a new monthly temperature record...
  • Chile Flowers Bloom in Space NASA · 11 Sep 2024 In July 2021, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station started growing chile peppers in the Advanced Plant Habitat, as part of the Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04) experiment. The astronauts and a team of researche...
  • NASA Remembers Sept. 11 NASA · 11 Sep 2024 The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were a national tragedy that resulted in a staggering loss of life and a significant change in American culture. Each year, we pause and remember. Beyond honoring the Americans who died that...
  • NASA Scientists Re-Create Mars ‘Spiders’ in a Lab for First Time Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 11 Sep 2024 Tests on Earth appear to confirm how the Red Planet’s spider-shaped geologic formations are carved by carbon dioxide.
  • 9 Phenomena NASA Astronauts Will Encounter at Moon’s South Pole NASA · 11 Sep 2024 Out-of-this-world phenomena NASA astronauts will experience at the Moon’s south polar region.
  • NASA Scientists Re-Create Mars ‘Spiders’ in a Lab for First Time NASA · 11 Sep 2024 Tests on Earth appear to confirm how the Red Planet’s spider-shaped geologic formations are carved by carbon dioxide. Since discovering them in 2003 via images from orbiters, scientists have marveled at spider-like shape...
  • Inspiration Among the Stars: How Johnson’s Workforce Found Their Place in Space NASA · 11 Sep 2024 For some people, working for NASA is a lifelong dream. For others, it is an interesting and perhaps unexpected opportunity that comes up at just the right time and place. Everything from family ties and influential teach...
  • Air Traffic Management – eXploration (ATM-X) Description NASA · 11 Sep 2024 As the aviation industry evolves, new air vehicles and operators are entering the airspace. NASA is working to ensure these new diverse set of operations can be safely integrated into the current airspace. The agency is...
  • Soyuz MS-26 launches NASA and Roscosmos crew to ISS NASASpaceflight · 11 Sep 2024 The Soyuz MS-26 crewed mission has flown NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner to the International Space Station (ISS). Launch took place on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 16:23 UTC...
  • NASA Stennis Set to Continue ASTRA Mission with Sidus Space NASA · 11 Sep 2024 NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, announced Wednesday it will continue its historic in-space autonomous systems payload mission aboard an orbiting satellite through a follow-on agreement with S...
  • NASA astronaut Don Pettit makes fourth trip to the International Space Station Spaceflight Now · 11 Sep 2024 Pettit will fly to the orbiting outpost alongside Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner on the Soyuz MS-26 mission. Liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome is set for 12:23 p.m. EDT (1623 UTC).
  • Report highlights severe infrastructure challenges at NASA SpaceNews · 11 Sep 2024 A new report concludes that infrastructure and workforce challenges will soon require NASA to make tough choices about what missions to continue to conduct unless it receives a significant budget increase.
  • Starship Super Heavy Breezes Through Wind Tunnel Testing at NASA Ames NASA · 10 Sep 2024 NASA and its industry partners continue to make progress toward Artemis III and beyond, the first crewed lunar landing missions under the agency’s Artemis campaign. SpaceX, the commercial Human Landing System (HLS) provi...
  • A Starry View NASA · 10 Sep 2024 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has infrared vision that lets us peer through the dusty veil of nearby star-forming region NGC 1333. We can see planetary mass objects, newborn stars, and brown dwarfs; some of the faint...
  • Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap NASA · 10 Sep 2024 The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become clogged. Engineers working on NASA’s Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with th...
  • SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn, taking astronauts to heights not seen in decades Teslarati · 10 Sep 2024 SpaceX officially launched the Polaris Dawn mission, which lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center early on Tuesday morning. The mission is...
  • Kyle Helson Finds EXCITE-ment in Exoplanet Exploration NASA · 10 Sep 2024 Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA’s EXCITE mission. As a scientist at Goddard, Helson helped make this balloon-based telescope a reality: EXCITE launched successfu...
  • NASA to Test Telemedicine, Gather Essential Health Data with Polaris Dawn Crew NASA · 10 Sep 2024 NASA researchers will soon benefit from a suite of experiments flying aboard a new fully-commercial human spaceflight mission, strengthening future agency science as we venture to the Moon, Mars and beyond. The experimen...

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