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- NASA@ My Library and Partners Engage Millions in Eclipse Training and Preparation NASA · 28 Jun 2024 The Space Science Institute, with funding from the NASA Science Mission Directorate and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, provided unprecedented training, support, and supplies to 15,000 libraries in the U.S. and territ...
- An Eclipse Megamovie Megastar NASA · 28 Jun 2024 Nazmus “Naz” Nasir is a software engineer by day, and an astrophotographer by night….and sometimes by day as well! This April, Naz participated in NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie 2024 project, photographing the total solar ecli...
- NASA Shares Two New Moon to Mars Architecture White Papers NASA · 28 Jun 2024 NASA has released two white papers associated with the agency’s Moon to Mars architecture efforts. The papers, one on lunar mobility drivers and needs, and one on lunar surface cargo, detail NASA’s latest thinking on spe...
- Hubble Examines an Active Galaxy Near the Lion’s Heart NASA · 28 Jun 2024 It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy — known as Messier 105 — show that the stars near the galaxy’s center are moving very...
- NASA, Boeing to Provide Commercial Crew, Space Station Update NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Leadership from NASA’s International Space Station and Commercial Crew Programs, as well as Boeing, will participate in a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, June 28. NASA and Boeing continue to evaluate Starliner...
- NASA Awards Contract for Cargo Mission Support NASA · 27 Jun 2024 NASA has awarded a contract to Leidos, Inc. of Reston, Virginia, to provide mission support for the agency’s International Space Station Program, Artemis campaign, and more. The Cargo Mission Contract 4 has a total poten...
- Station Nation: Meet Katie Burlingame, ETHOS Flight Controller and Instructor in the Flight Operations Directorate NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Katie Burlingame is an ETHOS (Environmental and Thermal Operating Systems) flight controller and instructor in the Flight Operations Directorate supporting the International Space Station. Burlingame trains astronauts an...
- NASA Prepares for Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Studies NASA · 27 Jun 2024 A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air taxi rides and collect data that will help designers create new aircraft with passenger com...
- NASA Kennedy Team Recognized During White House Sustainability Awards NASA · 27 Jun 2024 A team of seven NASA Kennedy employees was recognized by the White House for charging ahead with the expansion of the agency’s sustainable electric vehicle (EV) fleet at Kennedy Space Center. They did so at minimal cost...
- Langley Celebrates Pride Month: Derek Bramble NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Derek Bramble has served in a variety of mission and program support roles over his 14-year career at NASA Langley. He currently serves as an HR Business Partner in LaRC’s Human Capital Office, where he works closely wit...
- Mapping the Red Planet with the Power of Open Science NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Mars rovers can only make exciting new discoveries thanks to human scientists making careful decisions about their next stop. The Mars 2020 mission is aimed at exploring the geology of Jezero Crater and seeking signs of...
- NASA Parachute Sensor Testing Could Make EPIC Mars Landings NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you don’t have enough information about how the parachutes are enduring strain during the descent to the surface. Researchers at N...
- NASA will pay SpaceX nearly $1 billion to deorbit the International Space Station Ars Technica · 27 Jun 2024 The space agency did consider alternatives to splashing the station.
- NASA Celebrates 10 Years of Human Spaceflight’s NExT Pioneers NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Experienced spacewalkers, university students, flight controllers, and NASA team members at all stages of their career recently came together at Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) for an anniversary...
- Liftoff! Redesigned NASA Ames Visitor Center Engages Kids, Families NASA · 27 Jun 2024 The San Francisco Bay Area has a new and interactive way to learn more about the innovative work of NASA’s Ames Research Center. A newly redesigned NASA Ames Visitor Center at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, Ca...
- NASA’s Mars Odyssey Captures Huge Volcano, Nears 100,000 Orbits NASA · 27 Jun 2024 The 23-year-old orbiter is taking images that offer horizon-wide views of the Red Planet similar to what astronauts aboard the International Space Station see over Earth. NASA’s longest-lived Mars robot is about to mark...
- NASA’s Mars Odyssey Captures Huge Volcano, Nears 100,000 Orbits Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 27 Jun 2024 The 23-year-old orbiter is taking images that offer horizon-wide views of the Red Planet similar to what astronauts aboard the International Space Station see over Earth.
- NASA eClips Engages Families at 2024 STEM Community Day NASA · 27 Jun 2024 On Saturday, June 1, 2024, thousands of community members attended the Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Community Day hosted by Christopher Newport University in partnership with Newport News Public...
- Alphabet Soup: NASA’s GOLD Finds Surprising C, X Shapes in Atmosphere NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Who knew Earth’s upper atmosphere was like alphabet soup? NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has revealed unexpected C- and X-shaped formations in an electrified layer of gas high above...
- House spending bill cuts NASA science and education programs SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2024 A House spending bill for fiscal year 2025 would cut funding from the administration’s request for science and education programs at NASA.
- NASA Picks SpaceX To Build ISS Deorbit Vehicle SpacePolicyOnline.com · 27 Jun 2024 NASA just awarded a contract to SpaceX to build a vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station at the end of its lifetime, currently planned for 2030. NASA Administrator Bill
- NASA awards SpaceX contract for space station deorbit vehicle SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2024 NASA selected SpaceX to develop a spacecraft that will be used to perform the final phases of the deorbiting of the International Space Station around the end of the decade.
- SpaceX is building a NASA craft to intentionally destroy the International Space Station CNBC · 26 Jun 2024 NASA will have a spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX guide the International Space Station’s destruction later this decade, the agency announced Wednesday.
- The Marshall Star for June 26, 2024 NASA · 26 Jun 2024 Blasting into Summer: Thousands Enjoy NASA in the Park By Wayne Smith It was a super Saturday in the park to celebrate space and the Rocket City. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center joined Downtown Huntsville Inc. and ot...
- NASA Selects SpaceX To Build Spacecraft To Destroy ISS in 2030's The Launch Pad · 26 Jun 2024 NASA Selects SpaceX To Build Spacecraft To Destroy ISS in 2030's
- NASA Selects International Space Station US Deorbit Vehicle NASA · 26 Jun 2024 NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space exploration at the Moon and Mars. As the agency transitions to...
- 40 Years Ago: STS-41D – First Space Shuttle Launch Pad Abort NASA · 26 Jun 2024 In 1983, NASA received delivery of Discovery, the third space qualified vehicle in the agency’s space shuttle fleet. During the launch attempt for the STS-41D mission on June 26, 1984, Discovery’s onboard computers halte...
- Detective Work Enables Perseverance Team to Revive SHERLOC Instrument NASA · 26 Jun 2024 After six months of effort, an instrument that helps the Mars rover look for potential signs of ancient microbial life has come back online. The SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Orga...
- NOAA’s GOES-U Satellite Launches NASA · 26 Jun 2024 A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) satellite lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 2...
- NASA Advances Research to Grow Habitats in Space from Fungi NASA · 26 Jun 2024 As NASA prepares for long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars for the benefit of all, a habitat-growing concept selected Wednesday by the agency could help “grow” homes using fungi for future explorers. A team of rese...
- Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample NASA · 26 Jun 2024 Scientists have eagerly awaited the opportunity to dig into the 4.3-ounce (121.6-gram) pristine asteroid Bennu sample collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Securit...
- NASA’s Juno Gets a Close-Up Look at Lava Lakes on Jupiter’s Moon Io Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 26 Jun 2024 Infrared imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft heats up the discussion on the inner workings of Jupiter’s hottest moon.
- NASA’s Juno Gets a Close-Up Look at Lava Lakes on Jupiter’s Moon Io NASA · 26 Jun 2024 Infrared imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft heats up the discussion on the inner workings of Jupiter’s hottest moon. New findings from NASA’s Juno probe provide a fuller picture of how widespread the lava lakes ar...
- GOES-U Heads for Geostationary Orbit Space Scout · 26 Jun 2024 NASA and SpaceX have launched GOES-U, the final Earth observation satellite in the GOES-R series. The spacecraft was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, dodging inclement weather to lift off from Launch Complex 39A at...
- Mycotecture off Planet: En route to the Moon and Mars NASA · 26 Jun 2024 Lynn RothschildNASA Ames Research Center (ARC) A turtle carries its habitat. While reliable, it costs energy in transporting mass. NASA makes the same trade-off when it transports habitats and other structures off planet...
- Urban Sky wins NASA award to develop balloon-borne fire sensors SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2024 Urban Sky, a startup developing stratospheric balloons to take high-resolution imagery, has won a multimillion-dollar NASA grant to develop a wildfire monitoring system.
- Pillars of Creation Star in New Visualization from NASA’s Hubble and Webb Telescopes NASA · 26 Jun 2024 Made famous in 1995 by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the Pillars of Creation in the heart of the Eagle Nebula have captured imaginations worldwide with their arresting, ethereal beauty. Now, NASA has released a new 3D v...
- The 1998 Florida Firestorm and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center NASA · 26 Jun 2024 Lightning Crashes East central Florida’s natural environment and climate have shaped, and delayed, Kennedy Space Center launch operations since the 1960s. Torrential pop-up thunderstorms, Atlantic hurricanes, roasting he...
- Collins Aerospace pulls back from NASA spacesuit contract SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2024 As NASA grapples with more spacesuit problems on the International Space Station, the company it selected to develop replacement suits says it is pulling back from that effort.
- Sweden’s SSC Tapped to Provide Ground Support for US Lunar Lander European Spaceflight · 26 Jun 2024 The Swedish Space Cooperation (SSC) has signed a collaboration agreement with the US arm of the Japanese space company ispace to provide ground services for its upcoming Mission 3 flight to the surface of the Moon. Expec...