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NASA Announces its Artemis II Backup Crew Member for Moon Mission
NASA · 3 Jul 2024
NASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as its backup crew member for the agency’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign. Douglas will train alongside NASA astronauts Reid Wisem...
NASA’s Planetary Radar Tracks Two Large Asteroid Close Approaches
NASA · 3 Jul 2024
The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 as they safely passed Earth. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California recently...
Volunteer Crew to Exit NASA’s Simulated Mars Habitat After 378 Days
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
The four volunteers who have been living and working inside NASA’s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission are set to exit their ground-based home on Saturday, July 6. NASA will provide live coverage of the crew’s...
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Space Telescope Mission
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) mission. The firm-fixed-price contract has a value...
NASA’s ECOSTRESS Maps Burn Risk Across Phoenix Streets
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
Roads and sidewalks in some areas get so hot that skin contact could result in second-degree burns. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have mapped scorching pavement in Phoenix where c...
Studying Hurricane Beryl from Space
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this image of Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean on July 1, 2024, while aboard the International Space Station, and posted it to X. The Category 4 hurricane had winds of about 130 m...
Lagniappe for July 2024
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
Explore Lagniappe for July 2024 featuring: Gator Speaks Conversations filled the room with anticipation for the day ahead. NASA’s Stennis Space Center hosted Take Our Children to Work Day on June 27 with a day set aside...
How a NASA Engineer Supports the Commercialization of Space
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
Chris Barnett-Woods’ favorite movie growing up – Back to the Future – led him to dream of one day building a DeLorean automobile. Instead, the electrical engineer is doing something never imagined as he helps NASA suppor...
NASA’s Boeing Test Flight Crew to Discuss Starliner Mission from Space
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
Media are invited to hear from NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts discussing their mission during an Earth to space call at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, July 10. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will part...
Webinar Replay – Race to the Moon
SpaceNews · 2 Jul 2024
Join our expert panelists as they dive into the growing race for moon resources. With nations and companies now vying for water, metals, and minerals across the lunar surface, will NASA’s commercial strategy prove effect...
What’s Up: July 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
What to Look for in July The scorpion’s star clusters, and Mars reveals elusive Uranus Follow the tail of Scorpius to locate star clusters M6 and M7, let Mars guide you to observe planet Uranus, and see the Moon gather a...
NASA Asteroid Experts Create Hypothetical Impact Scenario for Exercise
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
The fifth Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise focused on an asteroid impact scenario designed by NASA JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. A large asteroid impacting Earth is highly unlikely for the fo...
NASA Shares Use Requirements with Commercial Destination Partners
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
NASA hosted a meeting to share knowledge with companies developing future commercial destinations at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The discussion could aid in developing safe, reliable, innovative, and co...
NASA’s Webb Captures Celestial Fireworks Around Forming Star
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
The colors within this mid-infrared image reveal details about the central protostar’s behavior. The cosmos seems to come alive with a crackling explosion of pyrotechnics in this new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Te...
NASA Stennis Achieves Primary Success for Historic In-Space Mission
NASA · 2 Jul 2024
NASA’s Stennis Space Center and partner Sidus Space Inc. announced primary mission success July 2 for the center’s historic in-space mission – an autonomous systems payload aboard an orbiting satellite. “Our ASTRA (Auton...
Firefly launches Alpha rocket on NASA mission
Spaceflight Now · 2 Jul 2024
Firefly made two launch attempts on Monday night, but had to ultimately scrub the mission due to a "ground support issue." Launch is now set for 9:04 p.m. PDT (12:04 a.m. EDT / 0404 UTC). Wednesday night/Thursday morning...
NASA’s NEOWISE Infrared Heritage Will Live On
NASA · 1 Jul 2024
NASA’s near-Earth-object-hunting mission NEOWISE is nearing its conclusion. But its work will carry on with NASA’s next-generation infrared mission: NEO Surveyor. After more than 14 successful years in space, NASA’s NEOW...
NASA’s NEOWISE Infrared Heritage Will Live On
Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 1 Jul 2024
NASA’s near-Earth-object-hunting mission NEOWISE is nearing its conclusion. But its work will carry on with NASA’s next-generation infrared mission: NEO Surveyor.
NASA’s Upgraded Hyperwall Offers Improved Data Visualization
NASA · 1 Jul 2024
In May, the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, celebrated the newest generation of its hyperwall system, a wall of LCD screens that display...
NASA Awards Support STEM Research at Minority Serving Institutions
NASA · 1 Jul 2024
NASA has selected 23 minority-serving institutions to receive $1.2 million to grow their research and technology capabilities, collaborate on research projects, and contribute to the agency’s missions for the benefit of...
Behind the Scenes of a NASA ‘Moonwalk’ in the Arizona Desert
NASA · 1 Jul 2024
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas recently performed four moonwalk simulations to help NASA prepare for its Artemis III mission. Due to launch in September 2026, Artemis III will land two, yet-to-be-selected,...
NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman’s 21st Station Resupply Launch
NASA · 1 Jul 2024
Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This launch is the 21st Northrop Grumman commercial resupply services mi...
NASA and SpaceX studying ways to mitigate Dragon trunk debris
SpaceNews · 1 Jul 2024
NASA and SpaceX are examining how to alter the Dragon spacecraft’s reentry process to limit the amount of debris from the spacecraft’s trunk section that reaches the ground.
Date for Boeing Starliner CFT Return Still Up in the Air
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 29 Jun 2024
Today NASA and Boeing pushed back on the narrative that the Starliner crew is stranded in space, but declined to provide a date for when they will return. Starliner is
Starliner to remain on ISS for more thruster tests
SpaceNews · 28 Jun 2024
NASA and Boeing plan to keep the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft at the International Space Station well into July to conduct additional tests, while emphasizing its two-person crew is not “stranded” in space.
NASA Awards Contract for Infrared Telescope Facility Operations
NASA · 28 Jun 2024
NASA has selected the University of Hawaii in Honolulu to maintain and operate the agency’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea in Hilo, Hawaii. The Management and Operations of NASA’s IRTF is a hybrid firm-f...
NASA Announces Winners of Inaugural Human Lander Challenge
NASA · 28 Jun 2024
NASA’s 2024 Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) Forum brought 12 university teams from across the United States to Huntsville, Alabama, near the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center, to showcase their innovative concepts for...
The Maze is Afoot
NASA · 28 Jun 2024
This labyrinth – with a silhouette of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes at its center – is used as a calibration target for the cameras and laser that are part of SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman...
In Space Production Applications News
NASA · 28 Jun 2024
Technological innovations make headlines every day, and NASA’s In Space Production Applications (InSPA) Portfolio of awards are driving these innovations into the future. InSPA awards help U.S. companies demonstrate in-s...