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- NASA Invites Media to Artemis II Moon Mission Activities at Kennedy NASA · 11 Feb 2025 Media are invited to visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to capture imagery of the agency’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters for the first crewed Artemis miss...
- Space Shuttle Endeavour Takes Flight NASA · 11 Feb 2025 Blue mach diamonds from the main engine nozzles and bright exhaust from the solid rocket boosters mark the successful launch of space shuttle Endeavour 25 years ago on Feb. 11, 2000. The STS-99 mission crew – including a...
- NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to Watch Crew-10 Launch to Space Station NASA · 11 Feb 2025 Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA’s 10th rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, carrying astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition. The agency’...
- NASA’s Mini Rover Team Is Packed for Lunar Journey NASA · 11 Feb 2025 A trio of suitcase-size rovers and their base station have been carefully wrapped up and shipped off to join the lander that will deliver them to the Moon’s surface. Three small NASA rovers that will explore the lunar su...
- NASA’s X-59 Turns Up Power, Throttles Through Engine Tests NASA · 11 Feb 2025 NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took another successful step toward flight with the conclusion of a series of engine performance tests. In preparation for the X-59’s planned first flight this year, NASA an...
- NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Colorful Clouds Drifting Over Mars NASA · 11 Feb 2025 While the Martian clouds may look like the kind seen in Earth’s skies, they include frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice. Red-and-green-tinted clouds drift through the Martian sky in a new set of images captured by NASA’s C...
- Driving the Future: NASA Highlights Artemis at Houston AutoBoative Show NASA · 11 Feb 2025 You would not expect to see NASA at a car show—but that’s exactly where Johnson Space Center employees were from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2, 2025, driving the future of space exploration forward. At the Houston AutoBoative Show,...
- Connecticut Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station NASA · 11 Feb 2025 Students from Rocky Hill, Connecticut, will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Don Pettit as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from ab...
- Art Inspired by Exploration: NASA Unveils Architecture Art Challenge Winners NASA · 11 Feb 2025 NASA asked artists to imagine the future of deep space exploration in artwork meant to inspire the Artemis Generation. The NASA Moon to Mars Architecture art challenge sought creative images that represent the agency’s b...
- NASA Supports GoAERO University Awardees for Emergency Aircraft Prototyping NASA · 11 Feb 2025 With support from NASA, the international GoAERO Prize competition recently announced funding for 14 U.S. university teams to build innovative new compact emergency response aircraft. The teams will develop prototype ver...
- NASA selects SpaceX to launch astrophysics smallsat mission SpaceNews · 11 Feb 2025 NASA has selected SpaceX to launch a small exoplanet science mission as a rideshare payload as soon as September.
- NASA boosts science objectives for Starling swarm SpaceNews · 11 Feb 2025 NASA is expanding testing of distributed autonomy for its first satellite swarm, Starling.
- Mount Everest from Space NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Crew aboard space shuttle Columbia captured this image of Mount Everest on Nov. 30, 1996, during the STS-80 mission. STS-80, the final shuttle flight of 1996, was highlighted by the successful deployment, operation, and...
- NASA Awards Launch Service Task Order for Pandora Mission NASA · 10 Feb 2025 NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Pandora mission, which will study at least 20 known exoplanets and their host stars to find out how changes in stars affect our...
- NASA to roll out major update to core flight software SpaceNews · 10 Feb 2025 A government-only version of NASA core Flight System with enhanced security and other features will be released in mid-2025.
- World Photo Day: Behind the Scenes with Goddard’s Documentary Photographers NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Ambiguity. That’s the word that comes to mind when documentary photographers start each day at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “You walk in and think one thing is happening,” said OCI’s lead do...
- NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Lee esta historia en español aquí When Rose Ferreira first saw an image of a field of galaxies and galaxy clusters from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in July, she “went into the restroom and broke down a little,” she...
- Wallops Electrical Engineer Named NASA Goddard’s 2022 ‘Innovator of Year’ NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Scott Hesh, an electrical engineer at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, was announced Nov. 2 as the FY22 IRAD Innovator of the Year, an award presented by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Cente...
- NASA Researcher’s AI ‘Eye’ Could Help Robotic Data-Gathering NASA · 10 Feb 2025 When it comes to making real-time decisions about unfamiliar data – say, choosing a path to hike up a mountain you’ve never scaled before – existing artificial intelligence and machine learning tech doesn’t come close to...
- John Moisan Studies the Ocean Through the ‘Eyes’ of AI NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Name: John Moisan Formal Job Classification: Research oceanographer Organization: Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Geophysics (HBG), Earth Science Directorate (Code 616) – duty station at NASA’s Wallops...
- NASA Scientists & Historian Named AAAS 2022 Fellows NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Four individuals with NASA affiliations have been named 2022 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements in the...
- NASA Scientist Jonathan Gardner Named AAS 2023 Fellow NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Jonathan Gardner of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was selected as a 2023 Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for extraordinary achievement and service. He is being recognized fo...
- NASA Engineers Honored by National Academy of Engineering NASA · 10 Feb 2025 The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected three new members with NASA affiliations. Two employees and one retiree from three different NASA centers around the country were awarded the honor on Feb. 7. Electio...
- Sholainka Martyn: Powering Goddard Missions, One Small Business At a Time NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Sholainka Martyn builds connections between Goddard and the small business vendors who make the NASA mission stronger.
- AAAS Announces 3 NASA Winners of Inaugural Mani L. Bhaumik Award NASA · 10 Feb 2025 The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded its inaugural Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award to standout contributors to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
- Andrew Hynous: Supporting Science at the Edge of Space NASA · 10 Feb 2025 For five years, Andrew Hynous has been NASA’s high-altitude scientific balloon program’s “MOM” – that’s mission operations manager, in NASA parlance.
- Rob Garner: Editing Goddard’s Story to Fit the Space NASA · 10 Feb 2025 News Chief Rob Garner shares NASA Goddard’s story with the public, supporting writers and creators in the Office of Communications. Name: Rob GarnerTitle: News ChiefFormal Job Classification: Senior public affairs specia...
- Kyle Helson Finds EXCITE-ment in Exoplanet Exploration NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA’s EXCITE mission. As a scientist at Goddard, Helson helped make this balloon-based telescope a reality: EXCITE launched successfu...
- Astrophysicist Gioia Rau Explores Cosmic ‘Time Machines’ NASA · 10 Feb 2025 To shape NASA’s path of exploration forward, Dr. Gioia Rau unravels stars and worlds beyond our solar system. Name: Dr. Gioia RauTitle: AstrophysicistOrganization: Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, Astrophy...
- 2 NASA Employees Awarded Space and Satellite Professionals 20 under 35 of 2024 NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Two NASA employees, Howard Chang and Bradley Williams, were named as two of the “20 under 35 of 2024” by the Space and Satellite Professionals International. The award recognizes outstanding young professionals in the sp...
- NASA-Led Study Pinpoints Areas Sinking, Rising Along California Coast NASA · 10 Feb 2025 The elevation changes may seem small — amounting to fractions of inches per year — but they can increase or decrease local flood risk, wave exposure, and saltwater intrusion. Tracking and predicting sea level rise involv...
- NASA Scientists Spot Candidate for Speediest Exoplanet System NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving exoplanet system, nearly double our solar syst...
- Newly Minted Ph.D. Studies Phytoplankton with NASA’s FjordPhyto Project NASA · 10 Feb 2025 FjordPhyto is a collective effort where travelers on tour expedition vessels in Antarctica help scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Universidad Nacional de La Plata study phytoplankton. Now project lead...
- Euclid Discovers Einstein Ring in Our Cosmic Backyard NASA · 10 Feb 2025 Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, has made a surprising discovery in our cosmic backyard: a phenomenon called an Einstein ring. An Einstein ring is light from a distant galaxy bendin...
- U.S.-Japan statement mentions Artemis amid uncertainty about its future SpaceNews · 9 Feb 2025 A White House statement mentioned NASA’s Artemis campaign of lunar exploration even as the space industry is preparing for significant changes to it.
- NASA to continue using Artemis crew transport vans from bankrupt manufacturer SpaceNews · 9 Feb 2025 NASA expects to continue using electric vans to transport astronauts to the pad for Artemis missions even though the vehicles’ manufacturer is bankrupt.
- Webb investigates protoplanetary disk in extreme detail, observes glowing interstellar material NASASpaceflight · 9 Feb 2025 The joint NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) James Webb Space…
- Boeing Warns of Potential SLS Layoffs SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Feb 2025 Boeing told employees working on the Space Launch System program yesterday that significant layoffs may take place by April because of anticipated changes by NASA. They added they would try
- Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts Ars Technica · 7 Feb 2025 The White House has not made a final decision yet on the large rocket.
- Golden Moon over the Superdome NASA · 7 Feb 2025 The full moon rises over the Superdome and the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on Monday evening, January 13, 2025. New Orleans is home to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility where several pieces of hardware for the SLS (Spa...