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- Sunrise on Crew-11 Launch Attempt NASA · 31 Jul 2025 The Sun rises on the morning of July 31, 2025, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch was postponed due to an unfavorable weather forecast. Teams are now tar...
- NASA Installs Key ‘Sunblock’ Shield on Roman Space Telescope NASA · 31 Jul 2025 Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the observatory’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (togethe...
- NASA Invites Proposals to Lease Aircraft Hangar in Cleveland NASA · 31 Jul 2025 NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is seeking proposals for the use of its historic aircraft hangar, along with a parking lot, tarmac, and a small neighboring office building. Proposals are due by 1 p.m. EDT on No...
- NASA, SpaceX to launch Crew-11 mission to the ISS NASASpaceflight · 31 Jul 2025 NASA and SpaceX are set for the launch of the 11th operational crew rotation mission…
- Live coverage: Former members of Crew-9, Starliner-1 missions unite to fly to the Space Station Spaceflight Now · 31 Jul 2025 The four members of the SpaceX Crew-11 flight were previously set to fly on different missions before they ended up as a quartet on the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s K...
- NASA Releases Opportunity to Boost Commercial Space Tech Development NASA · 30 Jul 2025 NASA has released a new proposal opportunity for industry to tap into agency know-how, resources, and expertise. The Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity (ACO), managed by the Space Technology Mission Directorate, e...
- India safely launches a $1.5 billion satellite for NASA Ars Technica · 30 Jul 2025 "We are at the threshold of fulfilling the immense scientific potential NASA and ISRO envisioned."
- NASA Tests Epic Solution for Supersonic Parachute Deliveries NASA · 30 Jul 2025 NASA/Lori Losey The best way to solve a mystery is by gathering evidence and building a case. That’s exactly what NASA researchers are doing with a series of research flights aimed at advancing a sensor for supersonic pa...
- NASA-ISRO Satellite Lifts Off to Track Earth’s Changing Surfaces NASA · 30 Jul 2025 Carrying an advanced radar system that will produce a dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth in unprecedented detail, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite has launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centr...
- NASA’s Webb Traces Details of Complex Planetary Nebula NASA · 30 Jul 2025 Since their discovery in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that planetary nebulae, or the expanding shell of glowing gas expelled by a low-intermediate mass star late in its life, can come in all shapes and sizes....
- Thales Alenia Space Ships Key Component for Mars Sample Return Mission European Spaceflight · 30 Jul 2025 Thales Alenia Space has shipped the Orbit Insertion Module for the European Space Agency’s Earth Return Orbiter from its facilities in Turin to Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK. As part of its contribution to th...
- Looking Forward to the Moon NASA · 30 Jul 2025 On May 8, 2022, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems’ Program Manager Shawn Quinn captured this crop of a full frame image of the Hadley–Apennine region of Earth’s Moon including the Apollo 15 landing site (very near the ed...
- Laine Havens: Melding Science and Storytelling NASA · 30 Jul 2025 Science Communication Intern – Goddard Space Flight Center Laine Havens — now a senior at Cornell University and three-time NASA intern — grew up with a deep curiosity about how the universe works and a family that encou...
- Joint NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite launches from India NASASpaceflight · 30 Jul 2025 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite…
- Joint NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite ready to launch from India NASASpaceflight · 30 Jul 2025 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is preparing to launch the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar…
- NASA Selects Firefly for New Artemis Science, Tech Delivery to Moon NASA · 29 Jul 2025 NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, $176.7 million to deliver two rovers and three scientific instruments to the lunar surface as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiat...
- NASA Drop Test Supports Safer Air Taxi Designs NASA · 29 Jul 2025 As the aviation industry works to design air taxis and other new electric aircraft, there’s a growing need to understand how the materials behave. That’s why NASA is investigating potential air taxi materials and designs...
- NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins, First to Sequence DNA in Space, Retires NASA · 29 Jul 2025 NASA astronaut and microbiologist Kate Rubins retired Monday after 16 years with the agency. During her time with NASA, Rubins completed two long-duration missions aboard the International Space Station, logging 300 days...
- ASI Awards New Lunar Habitat Contract to Thales Alenia Space European Spaceflight · 29 Jul 2025 The Italian Space Agency has awarded Thales Alenia Space a contract for the preliminary design of its Multi-Purpose Habitat, which will serve as a base for astronauts on the lunar surface. The 25 July announcement includ...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4611-4613: Scenic Overlook NASA · 29 Jul 2025 Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 25, 2025 A 23-meter drive (about 75 feet) brought Curiosity to today’s planned “look-about” spot. The highl...
- Join Second Lady Usha Vance as She Reads to Children at NASA Johnson NASA · 28 Jul 2025 As part of her Summer Reading Challenge, Second Lady Usha Vance will host an event for children in grades K-8 on Monday, Aug. 4, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Media are invited. NASA astronaut Suni Williams...
- Launch Roundup: SpaceX to launch Crew-11 to ISS; ISRO and NASA launch new SAR satellite NASASpaceflight · 28 Jul 2025 With 10 launches scheduled from around the world, this week’s launch manifest is among the…
- NASA Silicon Valley Event Center – Calendar of Events NASA · 28 Jul 2025 Upcoming Events for the Public Check below for upcoming events that are open to the public being held at the Event Center SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday
- Visiting the NASA Silicon Valley Event Center NASA · 28 Jul 2025 Visiting the Event Center Due to the nature of being a NASA facility, there are some special considerations that must be taken into account. Traveling To & FromThe Event Center is located on the publicly accessible side...
- NASA Selects Human Space Flight Technical Integration Contractor NASA · 28 Jul 2025 NASA has selected Barrios Technology, LLC, in Houston to provide technical integration services for the agency’s human space flight programs. The Mission Technical Integration Contract is a cost-plus-award-fee and cost-p...
- 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge NASA · 28 Jul 2025 Join the 2025 NASA International Space Apps Challenge: Learn, Launch, Lead On October 4–5, 2025, NASA—along with 14 international space agency partners—invites scientists, engineers, coders, designers, storytellers, and...
- NASA Drop Test Supports Safer Air Taxi Design and Certification NASA · 28 Jul 2025 As the aviation industry works to develop new air taxis and other electric aircraft made from innovative, lightweight materials, there’s a growing need to understand how those materials behave under impact. That’s why NA...
- Hubble Spies Swirling Spiral NASA · 28 Jul 2025 The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3285B, which resides 137 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra (the Water Snake). Hydra has the largest area of the 88 constel...
- Melissa John Champions Environmental Stewardship at White Sands NASA · 28 Jul 2025 For Melissa John, protecting the environment is her way of contributing to space exploration while preserving the Earth we call home. As the sustainability program lead at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces,...
- Crew-11 Arrives at Kennedy Space Center Ahead of Launch NASASpaceflight · 27 Jul 2025 NASA’s Crew-11 mission is officially in the final stretch before liftoff, with all four astronauts…
- Crew-11 astronauts, cosmonaut arrive in Florida ahead of launch to the space station Spaceflight Now · 26 Jul 2025 The quartet is set to liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, July 31. Their Dragon spacecraft, Endeavour, will fly for a record-setting sixth time.
- One Fifth of NASA’s Workforce Take Voluntary Departure Options SpacePolicyOnline.com · 26 Jul 2025 The options for NASA employees to voluntarily leave the agency to meet Trump Administration workforce reduction targets ended yesterday. NASA reports that just over 21 percent took the Deferred Resignation
- Celebrating 25 Years of Continuous Human Presence Aboard the International Space Station NASA · 25 Jul 2025 NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. A truly global endeavor, the International Space Station has been visited by more than 280 people from 23 countrie...
- NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 33rd Resupply Launch to Space Station NASA · 25 Jul 2025 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 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to t...
- NASA Rehearses How to Measure X-59’s Noise Levels NASA · 25 Jul 2025 In a stretch of California’s Mojave Desert, NASA conducted a full-scale “dress rehearsal” to prepare how it will measure the noise generated by the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft. The team behind the successful...
- NASA Invites Virtual Guests to SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Launch NASA · 25 Jul 2025 NASA invites the public to participate as virtual guests in the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Explor...
- Hubble Spies Swirling Spiral NASA · 25 Jul 2025 The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3285B, which resides 137 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra (the Water Snake).
- Mars Sample Return Gets a Lifeline from House Appropriators SpacePolicyOnline.com · 25 Jul 2025 The House Appropriations Committee delayed markup of the FY2026 Commerce-Justice-Science bill that was scheduled for today, but released the report detailing how the committee wants NASA to spend the $24.8
- NASA Welcomes Senegal as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory NASA · 24 Jul 2025 Senegal signed the Artemis Accords Thursday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, becoming the latest nation to commit to the responsible exploration of space for all humanity. “Fol...
- NASA Sets Coverage for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 Launch, Docking NASA · 24 Jul 2025 NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for 12:09 p.m. EDT, Thursday, July 31, from Launc...