NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 to Explore Deep Space Exercise, Health
NASA · 5 Mar 2025
During NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station, which is scheduled to launch in March, select members of the four-person crew will participate in exercise and medical research aimed at keeping as...
Butch, Suni and Nick Stay Focused on Mission, Not Politics
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 5 Mar 2025
The three NASA astronauts on the Crew-9 mission aboard the International Space Station are staying focused on their work, not the earthly politics recently inserted into debate about their return
NASA Awards Launch Service for Mission to Study Storm Formation
NASA · 4 Mar 2025
NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission, which aims to understand why, when, and where tropical c...
FARMing with Data: OpenET Launches new Tool for Farmers and Ranchers
NASA · 4 Mar 2025
A NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-supported research and development team is making it easier for farmers and ranchers to manage their water resources. The team, called OpenET, created the Farm and Ranch Managemen...
NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Second Private Moon Landing
NASA · 4 Mar 2025
Carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6. The company’s Nova-C lunar lander is slated to l...
NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon
NASA · 4 Mar 2025
NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3, when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track Earth-based navigation signals on the Moon’s surfa...
30 Years Ago: STS-67, the Astro-2 Mission
NASA · 4 Mar 2025
On March 2, 1995, space shuttle Endeavour launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its eighth trip into space, on the STS-67 Astro-2 mission. The crew included Commander Stephen Oswald, Pilot William Grego...
Blue Ghost Lands on Moon
NASA · 4 Mar 2025
The shadow of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander can be seen in this photo from the Moon, taken after landing on March 2, 2025. The lander safely delivered a suite of 10 NASA science and technology instruments;...
NASA’s Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio
NASA · 4 Mar 2025
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show “3 Body Problem.” There’s...
Lagniappe for March 2025
NASA · 4 Mar 2025
Explore Lagniappe for March 2025 featuring: Gator Speaks Welcome to March. It is the month that refuses to sit still. One day, the sun is shining, and the next day, the wind is howling through the trees, especially in th...
How NASA Employee Went from Rock Climbing to Rocket Propulsion
NASA · 4 Mar 2025
Jason Hopper’s journey to NASA started with assessing the risk of stepping into the unknown. One day, while taking a break from his hobby of rock climbing at Mississippi State University, a fellow student noticed Hopper...
Sols 4468-4470: A Wintry Mix of Mars Science
NASA · 4 Mar 2025
Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 28, 2025 Curiosity continues to climb roughly southward through the layered sulfate strata toward the “boxw...
University High Knows the Answers at NASA JPL Regional Science Bowl
NASA · 3 Mar 2025
In a fast-paced competition, students showcased their knowledge across a wide range of science and math topics. What is the molecular geometry of sulfur tetrafluoride? Which layer of the Sun is thickest? What is the aver...
University High Knows the Answers at NASA JPL Regional Science Bowl
NASA · 3 Mar 2025
In a fast-paced competition, students showcased their knowledge across a wide range of science and math topics. What is the molecular geometry of sulfur tetrafluoride? Which layer of the Sun is thickest? What is the aver...
NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in Ohio, Texas
NASA · 3 Mar 2025
Students from Ohio and Texas will have the chance to hear NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions this week. At 12:55 p.m. EST, Wednesday, March 5, NASA astronauts Suni W...
35 Years Ago: STS-36 Flies a Dedicated Department of Defense Mission
NASA · 3 Mar 2025
On Feb. 28, 1990, space shuttle Atlantis took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on STS-36, the sixth shuttle mission dedicated to the Department of Defense. As such, many of the details of the flight remain...
NASA Names Norman Knight as Acting Deputy Director of Johnson Space Center
NASA · 3 Mar 2025
NASA has selected Norman Knight as acting deputy director of Johnson Space Center. Knight currently serves as Director of Johnson’s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD), responsible for astronaut training and for overall...
NASA’s Webb Exposes Complex Atmosphere of Starless Super-Jupiter
NASA · 3 Mar 2025
An international team of researchers has discovered that previously observed variations in brightness of a free-floating planetary-mass object known as SIMP 0136 must be the result of a complex combination of atmospheric...
NASA Marks 110 Years Since Founding of Predecessor Organization
NASA · 3 Mar 2025
To celebrate the 110th anniversary of the organization that ultimately became NASA, the agency released a new collection of videos to highlight the history of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and th...
End-run around radiation – The saga and surprise vulnerabilities of Europa Clipper
SpaceNews · 3 Mar 2025
GOLDEN, Colorado — NASA’s Europa Clipper, now en route to Jupiter, departed with less-than-satisfactory and vulnerable devices that are susceptible to Jupiter’s intense radiation. The spacecraft’s liftoff on October 14,...
Firefly Lands on the Moon
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 2 Mar 2025
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed on the Moon early this morning. The third of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services or CLPS missions, the commercial lunar lander delivered 10
Touchdown! Carrying NASA Science, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon
NASA · 2 Mar 2025
Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST on Sunday near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, a more than 300-...
NASA Uses New Technology to Understand California Wildfires
NASA · 28 Feb 2025
The January wildfires in California devastated local habitats and communities. In an effort to better understand wildfire behavior, NASA scientists and engineers tried to learn from the events by testing new technology....
What’s Up: March 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA
NASA · 28 Feb 2025
A Fast-Moving Planet and a Crimson Moon! Catch Mercury if you can, then stay up late for a total lunar eclipse, and learn the truth about the dark side of the Moon. Skywatching Highlights All Month – Planets Visibility:...
Langley Laboratory Apprentice at Work
NASA · 28 Feb 2025
An apprentice at Langley Laboratory (now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia) inspects wind tunnel components in this image from May 15, 1943. During World War II, the National Advisory Committee for Aero...
Hubble Captures New View of Colorful Veil
NASA · 28 Feb 2025
In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun...
Jamie Dunn
NASA · 28 Feb 2025
Project Manager – Goddard Space Flight Center Growing up near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Jamie Dunn — now a project manager for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — naturally became interested in planes. Whi...
Commodity Classic Hyperwall Schedule
NASA · 27 Feb 2025
NASA Science at AMS Hyperwall Schedule, January 13-16, 2025 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #401) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, JANUARY 13 6:10 – 6:25 PMThe Golden...
NASA Installs Heat Shield on First Private Spacecraft Bound for Venus
NASA · 27 Feb 2025
Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, Bohdan Wesely, right, and Eli Hiss, left, complete a fit check of the two halves of a space capsule that will study the clouds of Venus for signs o...
Intuitive Machines-2 Lifts Off
NASA · 27 Feb 2025
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander (IM-2) soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The lander is set...