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- NASA selects Intuitive Machines for south pole lunar lander mission SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2024 NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver a set of payloads to the south polar region of the moon in 2027, the first award under a commercial lunar lander program in nearly a year and a half.
- NASA Life Sciences Portal (NLSP) NASA · 29 Aug 2024 NASA Life Sciences Portal (NLSP) The NASA Life Sciences Portal (NLSP) is the gateway to discovering and accessing all archive data from investigations sponsored by NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP). The HRP conducts re...
- NASA Awards Intuitive Machines Lunar South Pole Research Delivery NASA · 29 Aug 2024 A new set of NASA science experiments and technology demonstrations will arrive at the lunar South Pole in 2027 following the agency’s latest CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative delivery award. Intuitive...
- NASA Leaders Tour Ames Campus, Meet with Employees NASA · 29 Aug 2024 NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free, Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails, and Director of Cross-Agency Strategy John Keefe visited NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley on Aug. 28. The visi...
- NASA Celebrates 25 Years of High School Aerospace Scholars NASA · 29 Aug 2024 For 25 years, the Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center has inspired and provided high school students across the state of Texas with NASA-focused learning experiences through the High School A...
- NASA G-IV Plane Will Carry Next-Generation Science Instrument NASA · 29 Aug 2024 In June 2024, a new tail number swept the sky above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Pilots conducted flights of a Gulfstream IV (G-IV) to evaluate its handling characteristics and to famil...
- Blue Origin flies NASA-funded scientist and space tourists on New Shepard suborbital flight SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2024 Blue Origin took six people, including a NASA-funded researcher, on a New Shepard suborbital spaceflight Aug. 29.
- NASA JPL Developing Underwater Robots to Venture Deep Below Polar Ice NASA · 29 Aug 2024 Called IceNode, the project envisions a fleet of autonomous robots that would help determine the melt rate of ice shelves. On a remote patch of the windy, frozen Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, engineers from NASA’s Jet Pr...
- NASA JPL Developing Underwater Robots to Venture Deep Below Polar Ice Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 29 Aug 2024 Called IceNode, the project envisions a fleet of autonomous robots that would help determine the melt rate of ice shelves.
- NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Investigate Galactic Fossils NASA · 29 Aug 2024 The universe is a dynamic, ever-changing place where galaxies are dancing, merging together, and shifting appearance. Unfortunately, because these changes take millions or billions of years, telescopes can only provide s...
- Bring NASA Into Your Classroom This Fall Through Virtual Experiences NASA · 29 Aug 2024 Explore the universe this fall without leaving your classroom through live virtual engagements with NASA space and aviation experts. NASA is offering a new lineup of stellar virtual experiences to spark STEM excitement a...
- The Marshall Star for August 28, 2024 NASA · 28 Aug 2024 Marshall Leadership Updates Team Members on Culture, Strategy By Wayne Smith Leadership from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center highlighted a successful summer before looking ahead to the center’s culture and strategy d...
- NASA Expands Human Exploration Rover Challenge to Middle Schools NASA · 28 Aug 2024 By Wayne Smith Following a 2024 competition that garnered international attention, NASA is expanding its Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) to include a remote control division and inviting middle school students t...
- First NASA-Supported Researcher to Fly on Suborbital Rocket NASA · 28 Aug 2024 For the first time, a NASA-funded researcher will fly with their experiment on a commercial suborbital rocket. The technology is one of two NASA-supported experiments, also known as payloads, funded by the agency’s Fligh...
- NASA Assigns Astronaut Jonny Kim to First Space Station Mission NASA · 28 Aug 2024 During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecr...
- NASA Project in Puerto Rico Trains Students in Marine Biology NASA · 28 Aug 2024 Tainaliz Marie Rodríguez Lugo took a deep breath, adjusted her snorkel mask, and plunged into the ocean, fins first. Three weeks earlier, Rodríguez Lugo couldn’t swim. Now the college student was gathering data on water...
- NASA Pilot Program Continues to Award Small Business Innovators NASA · 28 Aug 2024 Earlier this month, nine small businesses received 2023 NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Ignite Phase II awards to further develop technologies that may be used in the agency’s missions and in the commercia...
- NASA’s inspector general predicts continued cost growth for SLS mobile launch platform SpaceNews · 28 Aug 2024 A contract to build a second mobile launch platform for the Space Launch System could end up costing NASA more than six times its original value, a report by the agency’s inspector general concluded.
- NASA, SpaceX Extend US Media Deadline for Crew-9 Launch to Station NASA · 28 Aug 2024 NASA is extending U.S. media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ninth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station. This mis...
- Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 28 Aug 2024 The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating.
- Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter NASA · 28 Aug 2024 The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA’s new asteroid-hunting spacecraft is taking shape at NASA’s...
- NASA Discovers a Long-Sought Global Electric Field on Earth NASA · 28 Aug 2024 An international team of scientists has successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields. Known as the ambipolar electric field, scientists first...
- New NASA Study Tallies Carbon Emissions From Massive Canadian Fires NASA · 28 Aug 2024 Extreme wildfires like these will continue to have a large impact on global climate. Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of car...
- New NASA Study Tallies Carbon Emissions From Massive Canadian Fires Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 28 Aug 2024 Extreme wildfires like these will continue to have a large impact on global climate.
- Hubble Traces Star Formation in a Nearby Nebula NASA · 28 Aug 2024 NGC 261 blooms a brilliant ruby red against a myriad of stars in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Discovered on Sept. 5, 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop, this nebula is located in one of the Mi...
- NASA IG Issues Another Harsh Report On NASA Management of Mobile Launcher-2 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 28 Aug 2024 NASA’s Office of Inspector General is again expressing deep concern about NASA’s management of Mobile Launcher-2, an enormous transporter needed to haul Space Launch System rockets to the launch pad
- NASA has to be trolling with the latest cost estimate of its SLS launch tower Ars Technica · 27 Aug 2024 "NASA officials informed us they do not intend to request a fixed-price proposal."
- NASA, Boeing Optimizing Vehicle Assembly Building High Bay for Future SLS Stage Production NASA · 27 Aug 2024 NASA is preparing space at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for upcoming assembly activities of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage for future Artemis missions, beginning with Artemis III. Teams a...
- NASA’s Europa Clipper Gets Set of Super-Size Solar Arrays NASA · 27 Aug 2024 The largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for planetary exploration just got its ‘wings’ — massive solar arrays to power it on the journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft recently got outf...
- NASA’s Europa Clipper Gets Set of Super-Size Solar Arrays Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 27 Aug 2024 The largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for planetary exploration just got its ‘wings’ — massive solar arrays to power it on the journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
- 40 Years Ago: President Reagan Announces Teacher in Space Project NASA · 27 Aug 2024 On Aug. 27, 1984, President Ronald W. Reagan announced the Teacher in Space project as part of NASA’s Space Flight Participant Program to expand the space shuttle experience to a wider set of private citizens who would c...
- Wizards Behind the Curtain: Johnson’s Administrative Team Makes Missions Possible NASA · 27 Aug 2024 For every NASA astronaut who serves as a public face of human spaceflight, there are thousands of people working behind the scenes to make the agency’s missions a success. Even the smallest tasks impact NASA’s ability to...
- Hubble Pinpoints a Dim, Starry Mini-galaxy NASA · 27 Aug 2024 A glittering collection of stars shines against a background of much more distant galaxies in this view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Pegasus Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI. The Andromeda...
- DETAIL OPPORTUNITY: NASA OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL NASA · 26 Aug 2024 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeks applicants interested in six to twelve month reimbursable details with the Office of General Counsel (OGC). Applicants must be current Federal Employees. App...
- NASA Seeks Input for Astrobee Free-flying Space Robots NASA · 26 Aug 2024 NASA is seeking input from American companies for the operation and use of a system of free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station as the agency continues to foster scientific, educational, and technologica...
- NASA Develops Pod to Help Autonomous Aircraft Operators NASA · 26 Aug 2024 For self-flying aircraft to take to the skies, they need to learn about their environments to avoid hazards. NASA aeronautics researchers recently developed a camera pod with sensors to help with this challenge by advanc...
- Dr. Irene Duhart Long NASA · 26 Aug 2024 Dr. Irene Duhart Long was the first female and the first minority to hold the position of chief medical officer at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as well as the first African American female to serve in the Seni...
- Cassiopeia A, Then the Cosmos: 25 Years of Chandra X-ray Science NASA · 26 Aug 2024 By Rick Smith On Aug. 26, 1999, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory opened its powerful telescopic eye in orbit and captured its awe-inspiring “first light” images of Cassiopeia A, a supernova remnant roughly 11,000 light-y...
- SpaceX bails out Boeing and employees are reportedly ‘humiliated’ Teslarati · 26 Aug 2024 SpaceX will rescue the NASA astronauts that are stuck aboard the International Space Station (ISS) bringing them back on the Crew-9 vehicle...
- NASA, Blue Origin Invite Media to New Glenn Launch of Mars Mission NASA · 26 Aug 2024 NASA and Blue Origin are preparing for the agency’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission, which begins on the inaugural launch of the company’s New Glenn rocket. The mission will study...