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NASA Invites Public Input on Low Earth Orbit Microgravity Strategy
NASA · 26 Aug 2024
As NASA and its partners continue to conduct groundbreaking research aboard the International Space Station, the agency announced Monday it is seeking U.S. industry, academia, international partners, and other stakeholde...
Solar Panels for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Pass Key Tests
NASA · 26 Aug 2024
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Solar Array Sun Shield has successfully completed recent tests, signaling that the assembly is on track to be completed on schedule. The panels are designed to power and shade t...
Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren’t Too Big for Their Britches After All
NASA · 26 Aug 2024
It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries. When astronomers got their first glimpses of galaxies in the early universe from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescop...
NASA rules out bringing astronauts home on Boeing’s Starliner
Spaceflight Now · 24 Aug 2024
After weeks of debate, NASA has ruled out bringing two astronauts back to Earth aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule because of lingering concerns about multiple helium leaks and degraded thrusters, both critical to a succe...
NASA: Starliner Will Return Empty, Still Confident in Boeing
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 24 Aug 2024
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced today that the agency has decided to return Boeing’s Starliner capsule to Earth empty. The two NASA astronauts who flew it up to the International
Starliner Astronauts to Return Aboard Crew-9
Space Scout · 24 Aug 2024
In a press conference starting at 1:13 PM EST, a panel of NASA program managers officially declared that Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be returning aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon at the conclusio...
Starliner to return from ISS without astronauts on board
SpaceNews · 24 Aug 2024
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner will return from the International Space Station in September without the two astronauts on board who launched on it in June after NASA concluded thruster problems posed too much risk.
The Making of Our Alien Earth: The Undersea Volcanoes of Santorini, Greece
NASA · 24 Aug 2024
The following expedition marks the third installment of NASA Astrobiology’s fieldwork series, the newly rebranded Our Alien Earth, streaming on NASA+. Check out all three episodes following teams of astrobiologists from...
NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew
NASA · 24 Aug 2024
NASA will return Boeing’s Starliner to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the spacecraft, the agency announced Saturday. The uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to continue gathering testi...
NASA to announce final determination on how to conclude Starliner Crew Flight Test
Spaceflight Now · 24 Aug 2024
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is set to discuss the agency’s decision following a rare mid-mission, agency-level flight readiness review. A press conference will begin no earlier than an hour following the conclusion of...
Thales Program Manager Shares Italian Lunar Habitat Details
European Spaceflight · 24 Aug 2024
Thales Alenia Space Multi-Purpose Habitation module programme manager Nicola Genco has shared several key details about the planned first permanent human presence on the Moon. In 2022, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) sign...
August 2024 Transformer of the Month: Selina Salgado
NASA · 23 Aug 2024
As a Human Resource Business Partner at NASA Headquarters, Selina Salgado describes her job as helping with “all things people” for the enterprise. By facilitating technological solutions to human resources (HR) challeng...
NASA Ames Stars of the Month: August 2024
NASA · 23 Aug 2024
The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Sangsavang Stevie Phothisane, Taryn Kavanagh, Andro Rios, and Hami Ray. Their commitment to the NASA mission represen...
First Look at Hybrid Electric Research Aircraft
NASA · 23 Aug 2024
In a special unveiling ceremony on Aug. 22, 2024, the public received a first look at magniX’s Dash 7 aircraft that will serve as a testbed for sustainable aviation research with NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demo...
NASA Funds Studies to Support Crew Performance on Long-Duration Missions
NASA · 23 Aug 2024
NASA is funding 11 new studies to better understand how to best support the health and performance of crew members during long-duration spaceflight missions. The awardees will complete the studies on Earth without the ne...
Solar Orbiter shows how solar wind gets a magnetic push
ESA · 23 Aug 2024
ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has provided crucial data to answer the decades-long question of where the energy comes from to heat and accelerate the solar wind. Working in tandem with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, Solar O...
NASA Shares Asteroid Bennu Sample in Exchange with JAXA
NASA · 23 Aug 2024
As part of an asteroid sample exchange, NASA has transferred to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample collected by the agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission. The sample was officially han...
NASA Astronauts Wilmore, Williams’ Space Station Science Highlights
NASA · 23 Aug 2024
Since the start of International Space Station operations more than two decades ago, crews have lived and worked in microgravity to conduct an array of research that benefits life on Earth and future space exploration mi...
Hubble Reaches a Lonely Light in the Dark
NASA · 23 Aug 2024
A splatter of stars glows faintly at almost 3 million light-years away in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Known as the Tucana Dwarf for lying in the constellation Tucana, this dwarf galaxy contains a l...
The case for an international space artifacts museum
SpaceNews · 23 Aug 2024
What do we do with the International Space Station when the facility is retired? That seems to be the question hovering over us right now. NASA’s report on the rationale
NASA Composite Manufacturing Initiative Gains Two New Members
NASA · 23 Aug 2024
Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and Fives Machining Systems Inc. have joined 20 other organizations to support NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project. The project is addressing industry’s needs...
Beyond the Textbook: DC-8 Aircraft Inspires Students in Retirement
NASA · 22 Aug 2024
In May 2024, Idaho State University’s class of 2025 received a new learning tool from NASA. The DC-8 aircraft served the world’s scientific community for decades as a platform under NASA’s Airborne Science Program before...
NASA’s EXCITE Mission Prepared for Scientific Balloon Flight
NASA · 22 Aug 2024
Scientists and engineers are ready to fly an infrared mission called EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) to the edge of space. EXCITE is designed to study atmospheres around exoplanets, or worlds beyond our sol...
NASA Selects Three New Venture-Class Launch Service Providers
NASA · 22 Aug 2024
NASA has selected three additional companies to provide launch services for future agency missions through its VADR (Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare) contract. The companies awarded are: The VADR con...
Leadership to Discuss NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test
NASA · 22 Aug 2024
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership will hold an internal Agency Test Flight Readiness Review on Saturday, Aug. 24, for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. About an hour later, NASA will host a live news conference...
Sunrise Begins
NASA · 22 Aug 2024
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured the start of this orbital sunrise on Aug. 15, 2024, while aboard the International Space Station. Crew members aboard the orbital lab have produced hundreds of thousands of images...
NASA Moves Artemis II Rocket Adapter, Prepares for Shipment
NASA · 22 Aug 2024
NASA rolled out a key piece of space flight hardware for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis campaign from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Wednesday...
Europe Delivers Orion Service Module for Artemis III Mission
European Spaceflight · 22 Aug 2024
The third European Service Module, which will power NASA’s Orion spacecraft, has left Germany and is on its way to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The service module will power the first crewed mission to the surfac...
Hubble Finds Structure in an Unstructured Galaxy
NASA · 22 Aug 2024
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A, located some 2.6 million light-years away. The relatively open distribution of stars in this diminutive galaxy allows light from di...
NASA Identifies Lunar Cargo and Mobility Gaps
Space Scout · 22 Aug 2024
The development of NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture is a continuous process, one which is always seeking to strengthen our approach to sending humans to Mars and beyond. In June, NASA released a pair of white papers that...
SLS contract extension hints at additional Artemis delays
SpaceNews · 22 Aug 2024
NASA plans to extend the contract for one element of the current version of the Space Launch System with options that suggest the agency is protecting against multi-year delays in future missions.
The Marshall Star for August 21, 2024
NASA · 21 Aug 2024
Hundreds Honored at Marshall, NASA Awards Ceremony NASA Chief Financial Officer Margaret Vo Schaus speaks to audience members and honorees Aug. 15 during the 2023 Agency/Center Honor Awards at NASA’s Marshall Space Fligh...
2025 Human Lander Challenge
NASA · 21 Aug 2024
In-space propulsion systems utilizing cryogenic liquids as propellants are necessary to achieve NASA’s exploration missions to the Moon, and later to Mars. In current state of the art (SOA) human scale, in-space propulsi...
NASA’s DART Team Earns AIAA Space Systems Award for Pioneering Mission
NASA · 21 Aug 2024
NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission continues to yield scientific discoveries and garner accolades for its groundbreaking achievements. The mission team was recently recognized by the American Institu...