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- NASA Invites Media to ‘NASA in the Park’ June 22 NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Media are invited to attend a celebration of space and the Rocket City during NASA in the Park on Saturday, June 22, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CDT at Big Spring Park East in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA and partners will pack the p...
- Augmented Reality Speeds Spacecraft Construction at NASA Goddard NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Technicians armed with advanced measuring equipment, augmented reality headsets, and QR codes virtually checked the fit of some Roman Space Telescope structures before building or moving them through facilities at NASA’s...
- Why Scientists Are Intrigued by Air in NASA’s Mars Sample Tubes NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Tucked away with each rock and soil sample collected by the agency’s Perseverance rover is a potential boon for atmospheric scientists. Atmospheric scientists get a little more excited with every rock core NASA’s Perseve...
- Why Scientists Are Intrigued by Air in NASA’s Mars Sample Tubes Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 20 Jun 2024 Tucked away with each rock and soil sample collected by the agency’s Perseverance rover is a potential boon for atmospheric scientists.
- NASA CubeSats Loaded for Launch NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Eight CubeSats that are part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative have been integrated into Firefly Aerospace’s deployment hardware and are ready to be encapsulated into the payload fairing of Firefly’s Alpha rocket. The...
- Giant Batteries Deliver Renewable Energy When It’s Needed NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Solar power is abundant – when the Sun is shining. Wind power is steady – when the wind is blowing. However, creating a steady electricity supply from intermittent power sources is a challenge. NASA was focused on this p...
- Webb snaps first image of aligned jets from newborn stars ESA · 20 Jun 2024 For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to image directly has been captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam). In this stunning image of the Serpens Nebul...
- NASA Engineer Honored as Girl Scouts ‘Woman of Distinction’ NASA · 20 Jun 2024 You’d think a NASA aerospace engineer who spends her days inside a giant dome researching how to make plane engines quieter and spacecraft systems more efficient would have a pretty booked schedule. Still, advocacy and m...
- NASA’s Chandra Peers Into Densest and Weirdest Stars NASA · 20 Jun 2024 The supernova remnant 3C 58 contains a spinning neutron star, known as PSR J0205+6449, at its center. Astronomers studied this neutron star and others like it to probe the nature of matter inside these very dense objects...
- Next Generation NASA Technologies Tested in Flight NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Teams of NASA researchers put their next-generation technologies to the microgravity test in a series of parabolic flights that aim to advance innovations supporting the agency’s space exploration goals.
- Stephanie Duchesne: Leading with Integrity and Openness for CLDP NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Of all the lessons learned throughout her NASA career, the importance of relationship and personal integrity is one that has been repeatedly reinforced for Stephanie Duchesne, a Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Pro...
- First of Its Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Alignment of bipolar jets confirms star formation theories For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to directly image has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIR...
- NASA Preserves Its Past at Kennedy While Building Future of Space NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Current and former employees of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida gathered recently to celebrate the installation of a Florida Historical Marker cast in bronze at the location of the spaceport’s old headquarters bui...
- Too young to be so cool: lessons from three neutron stars ESA · 20 Jun 2024 ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra spacecraft have detected three young neutron stars that are unusually cold for their age. By comparing their properties to different neutron star models, scientists conclude that the o...
- NASA and Boeing Extend Starliner's Stay at ISS to Address Thruster and Helium Leak Issues The Launch Pad · 19 Jun 2024 NASA and Boeing Extend Starliner's Stay at ISS to Address Thruster and Helium Leak Issues
- Starliner ISS stay extended to complete thruster and helium leak testing SpaceNews · 18 Jun 2024 NASA and Boeing have again extended the stay of the CST-100 Starliner at the International Space Station as engineers wrap up analysis of thruster problems and helium leaks on the crewed spacecraft.
- NASA moves Starliner landing to June 26 to collect more test flight data Spaceflight Now · 18 Jun 2024 The additional docked time will give Starliner commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore and co-pilot Sunita Williams more time to help out aboard the station while flight controllers and engineers continue scrutinizing telemetry...
- The Marshall Star for June 18, 2024 NASA · 18 Jun 2024 California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NAS...
- High-Speed Market Studies NASA · 18 Jun 2024 Owing to NASA’s Quesst mission and Commercial Supersonic Technology project, there is growing industry interest in commercial aircraft that fly faster than the speed of sound. In 2020, NASA funded two independent studies...
- NASA Releases Hubble Image Taken in New Pointing Mode NASA · 18 Jun 2024 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken its first new images since changing to an alternate operating mode that uses one gyro. The spacecraft returned to science operations June 14 after being offline for several weeks d...
- Artemis, Architecture, and Lunar Science: SMD and ESDMD Associate Administrators visits Tokyo NASA · 18 Jun 2024 June 18, 2024 At NASA we always say that exploration enables science, and science enables exploration. During a recent, quick trip to Tokyo, Japan with our Associate Administrator for the Exploration Systems Development...
- NASA Awards Logistic Services, Management Contract NASA · 18 Jun 2024 NASA has awarded the Goddard Logistics Services Contract to TRAX International Corporation of Las Vegas to provide logistics services and management for NASA missions. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes a base per...
- NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Build Next-Gen Spacecraft for NOAA NASA · 18 Jun 2024 NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build the spacecraft for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) sat...
- NASA Sets Launch Coverage for NOAA Weather Satellite NASA · 18 Jun 2024 NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) mission. The two-hour launc...
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Etched into Collier Trophy, Aerospace History NASA · 18 Jun 2024 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been immortalized at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington as the latest awardee of the Robert J. Collier Trophy. Bestowed annually by the National Aeronautic Associa...
- NASA delays Starliner return a few more days to study data Ars Technica · 18 Jun 2024 “I would not characterize it as frustration. I would characterize it as learning.”
- Gravitics Partners with NASA to Develop Verification and Validation Approaches for Large Orbital Spacecraft The Launch Pad · 18 Jun 2024 Gravitics Partners with NASA to Develop Verification and Validation Approaches for Large Orbital Spacecraft
- 15 Years Ago: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Begins Moon Mapping Mission NASA · 18 Jun 2024 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) launched together from Cape Canaveral Air Force, now Space Force, Station on June 18, 2009, atop an Atlas V launch ve...
- NASA, MagniX Altitude Tests Lay Groundwork for Hybrid Electric Planes NASA · 18 Jun 2024 At a simulated 27,500 feet inside an altitude chamber at NASA’s Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) facility, engineers at magniX recently demonstrated the capabilities of a battery-powered engine that could help turn hybri...
- NASA Updates Coverage for US Spacewalks 90, 91 Outside Space Station NASA · 18 Jun 2024 NASA will provide live coverage as astronauts conduct two spacewalks outside the International Space Station scheduled for Monday, June 24 and Tuesday, July 2. The first spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. EDT June...
- Astronaut Nicole Mann Throws First Pitch at Giants-Angels Game NASA · 18 Jun 2024 NASA astronaut Nicole Mann waves as she is introduced before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the San Francisco Giants versus Los Angeles Angels game at Oracle Park in San Francisco on June 14, 2024. Mann was h...
- NASA Awards Contract for Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Operations NASA · 17 Jun 2024 NASA has awarded a contract to Vertex Aerospace, LLC of Madison, Mississippi, for labor support to ensure continuing safe operations of the Sonny Carter Training Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Ne...
- Johnson Celebrates LGBTQI+ Pride Month: Meet Maya FarrHenderson NASA · 17 Jun 2024 Maya FarrHenderson’s first day at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston involved the usual new hire setup and training tasks, but also something special: A tour of the CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Ana...
- Webb identifies surprising carbon-rich ingredients around young star NASASpaceflight · 17 Jun 2024 Using the joint NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international scientists studied a disk of cosmic material surrounding an extremely low-mass star....
- NASA Interns Blast Off for Their First Week at Goddard NASA · 17 Jun 2024 Several hundred new faces walked through the gates of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for the first time on June 3. Who is this small army of motivated space-enthusiasts? It’s Goddard’s 2024 su...
- NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn’t Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss NASA · 17 Jun 2024 Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough to offset long-term drying conditions and increasing groundwater demands in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data. Declining water leve...
- Slow Your Student’s ‘Summer Slide’ and Beat Boredom With NASA STEM NASA · 17 Jun 2024 The school year has come to an end, and those long summer days are stretching ahead like an open runway. Parents and educators often worry about the “summer slide,” the concept that students may lose academic ground whil...
- Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA’s Webb NASA · 17 Jun 2024 New data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion. A team of scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away i...
- Globetrotting NASA Research Model Increases Accuracy NASA · 17 Jun 2024 NASA and its international partners are using the same generically shaped wing design to create physical and digital research models to better understand how air moves around an aircraft during takeoff and landing. Vario...
- Starliner Will Stay an Extra Few Days at ISS for Additional Tests SpacePolicyOnline.com · 15 Jun 2024 NASA and Boeing have decided to keep the Starliner capsule docked to the International Space Station a few days longer than planned. The first landing opportunity was June 14, but