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- Three NASA Langley Employees Win Prestigious Silver Snoopy Awards NASA · 7 Aug 2025 Three employees from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently earned the Silver Snoopy award, a prestigious honor given to NASA employees and contractors across the agency for exceptional achievements...
- As NASA Missions Study Interstellar Comet, Hubble Makes Size Estimate NASA · 7 Aug 2025 A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the crisp vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble is one of many missions across NASA’s fleet of space...
- Wade Sisler: A Wonder Aficionado in Service of the Cosmos NASA · 7 Aug 2025 Executive Producer — Goddard Space Flight Center Across 42 years at NASA, Wade Sisler — executive producer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland—watched the edge of human knowledge progress. During...
- NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown NASA · 6 Aug 2025 NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 7, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, splashdown is tar...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4622-4623: Kicking Off (Earth) Year 14 With an Investigation of Veins NASA · 6 Aug 2025 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. Today was a very special day for Curiosity as the rover celebrated the start of a 14t...
- As the end of the ISS nears, NASA shakes up program for commercial replacements Ars Technica · 6 Aug 2025 "Certain players are going to have to do a harder pivot."
- NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier NASA · 6 Aug 2025 As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kickin...
- NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day NASA · 6 Aug 2025 ‘Float rocks,’ sand ripples, and vast distances are among the sights to see in the latest high-resolution panorama by the six-wheeled scientist. The imaging team of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took advantage of clear...
- Duffy Approves Moving a Space Shuttle to Houston SpacePolicyOnline.com · 6 Aug 2025 Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has approved moving a space shuttle to Houston in accordance with language in the reconcilation act. NASA will only confirm that a decision was made,
- NASA Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore Retires NASA · 6 Aug 2025 After 25 years at NASA, flying in four different spacecraft, accumulating 464 days in space, astronaut and test pilot Butch Wilmore has retired from NASA. The Tennessee native earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in...
- Curiosity Looks Back Toward Its Landing Site NASA · 6 Aug 2025 NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a view of its tracks on July 26, 2025. The robotic scientist is now exploring a region of lower Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain. The pale peak of the mountain can be...
- Mississippi Attorney Serves NASA and the Nation NASA · 6 Aug 2025 Before Nathan Jermyn could dig into the legal frameworks at NASA, he had to answer a different call. Jermyn participated in a one-day orientation in the summer of 2023 to begin work as an attorney-advisor supporting NASA...
- Hubble sizes up rare interstellar comet ESA · 6 Aug 2025 A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, using the crisp vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
- In Moon Race with China, Duffy Wants Fission Surface Power SpacePolicyOnline.com · 6 Aug 2025 Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy wants a nuclear fission reactor on the Moon to support sustained U.S. presence there. Asserting that the United States is in a Moon race with
- NASA Selects Six Companies for Multi-Orbit Spacecraft Delivery Study The Launch Pad · 6 Aug 2025 NASA Selects Six Companies for Multi-Orbit Spacecraft Delivery Study
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4618-4619: The Boxwork Structures Continue to Call to Us NASA · 5 Aug 2025 Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer and Rover Planner at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. Now that we have reached August, our “landiversary” (anniversary of...
- NASA Selects Six Companies to Provide Orbital Transfer Vehicle Studies NASA · 5 Aug 2025 NASA has selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes and forms to multiple, difficult-to-reach orbits. The firm-fixed-price awards comprise nine...
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission NASA · 5 Aug 2025 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission with agency astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos co...
- NASA Science Activation Teams Unite to Support Neurodiverse Learners with Public Libraries NASA · 5 Aug 2025 On July 16, 2025, more than 400 public library staff from across the United States joined a powerful webinar, Serving Neurodiverse Library Patrons and Colleagues, hosted by two NASA Science Activation program teams: NASA...
- What is NASA’s Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy? NASA · 5 Aug 2025 Software designed to give spacecraft more autonomy could support a future where swarms of satellites navigate and complete scientific objectives with limited human intervention. Astronauts living and working on the Moon...
- Second Lady Usha Vance, NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Celebrate Reading NASA · 5 Aug 2025 Second Lady Usha Vance and NASA Astronaut Suni Williams listen to the audience in this image from Aug. 4, 2025. Ms. Vance joined Williams at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for a summer reading challenge event, th...
- NASA Ends Lunar Trailblazer Mission; Spacecraft To Drift Into Deep Space After Loss of Contact The Launch Pad · 4 Aug 2025 NASA Ends Lunar Trailblazer Mission; Spacecraft To Drift Into Deep Space After Loss of Contact
- NASA’s Black Marble: Stories from the Night Sky NASA · 4 Aug 2025 Studying the glowing patterns of Earth’s surface helps us understand human activity, respond to disasters, and witness a changing world.
- STEM Educators Are Bringing Hands-On NASA Science into Virginia Classrooms NASA · 4 Aug 2025 Professional learning experiences are integral to the enhancement of classroom instruction. Teachers, at the forefront of Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) education, play a key role in the advanceme...
- NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Moon Mission Ends NASA · 4 Aug 2025 The small satellite was to map lunar water, but operators lost contact with the spacecraft the day after launch and were unable to recover the mission. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer ended its mission to the Moon on July 31. D...
- NASA Opens Simulated Mars Habitat to Media Ahead of Second Mission NASA · 4 Aug 2025 As NASA prepares for its second year-long Mars simulated mission, media are invited to visit the ground-based habitat where the mission will take place, on Friday, Aug. 22, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston...
- Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills NASA · 4 Aug 2025 New capabilities allow the rover to do science with less energy from its batteries. Thirteen years since Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The six-wheeled r...
- NASA’s Artemis Crew Trains in Moonbound Orion Ahead of Mission NASA · 4 Aug 2025 The first crew slated to fly in NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission around the Moon early next year entered their spacecraft for a multi-day training at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Cre...
- Mark Cavanaugh: Integrating Safety into the Orion Spacecraft NASA · 4 Aug 2025 Before astronauts venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the agency’s first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo, Mark Cavanaugh is helping make sure the Orion spacecraft is safe and space-ready for the journey ahead....
- Webb reveals structures in planetary nebula, sheds new light on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field NASASpaceflight · 3 Aug 2025 The joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope recently observed the remnants…
- Helio Highlights: July 2025 NASA · 1 Aug 2025 As NASA and its partners prepare to send astronauts back to the Moon, we must address the potential dangers caused by space weather, which can damage spacecraft and cause physical harm to unprotected astronauts in space.
- The curious case of Russia’s charm offensive with NASA this week Ars Technica · 1 Aug 2025 "We're going to continue to work on the problems that we have here."
- NASA, SpaceX ‘thread the clouds’ to launch Crew-11 to the International Space Station Spaceflight Now · 1 Aug 2025 The Crew Dragon mission was delayed a day due to cumulus clouds, but had enough clearance to allow for a launch on August 1. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at 11:43 a.m. EDT (1543 UTC).
- Crew-11 Launches to International Space Station NASA · 1 Aug 2025 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft Endeavour lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 1, 2025. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Ja...
- NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars NASA · 1 Aug 2025 The agency’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a detailed image and bode well for the mission at Jupiter’s moon Europa. As it soared past Mars in March, NASA’s Europa...
- What’s Up: August 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA NASA · 1 Aug 2025 Venus-Jupiter Conjunction and Meteor Mojo Jupiter and Venus shine brightly in the mornings as they appear to graze each other in the sky on the 11th and 12th. The Perseids are washed out by the Moon. Skywatching Highligh...
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Launches to International Space Station NASA · 1 Aug 2025 Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission launched at 11:43 a.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station...
- How Joint NASA-ESA Sea Level Mission Will Help Hurricane Forecasts NASA · 1 Aug 2025 Sentinel-6B will measure sea surface height for nearly all of the world’s ocean, providing important data for information products, including weather and hurricane forecasts. NASA has a long record of monitoring Earth’s...
- Rocket Report: NASA finally working on depots, Air Force tests new ICBM Ars Technica · 1 Aug 2025 "I didn't expect that we would get to orbit."
- Crew-11 Must Wait Another Day, While Duffy Meets With Bakanov SpacePolicyOnline.com · 1 Aug 2025 Weather prevented Crew-11 from getting off the launch pad today, but they will try again tomorrow. Meanwhile, Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy was at the attemted launch and met with