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Nammo UK Engine Aboard US Lunar Lander Ignites for the First Time
European Spaceflight · 20 Jan 2025
The LEROS 4 rocket engine, developed by Nammo UK in Buckinghamshire, has successfully ignited in space, powering the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lunar lander. Blue Ghost was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on 15 Janua...
Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Independent Assessment
NASA · 17 Jan 2025
NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) assembled a small working group to review hydrogen sulfide (H2S) Spacecraft Maximum Allowable Concentration (SMAC) values. The group met virtually three times...
NASA Scientists, Engineers Receive Presidential Early Career Awards
NASA · 17 Jan 2025
President Biden has named 19 researchers who contribute to NASA’s mission as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients are among nearly 400 federally funded...
NASA Opens New Challenge to Support Climate-Minded Business Models
NASA · 17 Jan 2025
NASA’s Sustainable Business Model Challenge is looking for entrepreneurs, startups, and researchers to leverage the agency’s publicly available Earth system science data to develop commercial solutions for climate challe...
NASA’s Planetary Defenders Head to the Sundance Film Festival
NASA · 17 Jan 2025
NASA is bringing the high-stakes world of planetary defense to the Sundance Film Festival, highlighting its upcoming documentary, “Planetary Defenders,” during a panel ahead of its spring 2025 premiere on the agency’s st...
NASA Kennedy Ground Systems Prepping Hardware for Artemis II, Beyond
NASA · 17 Jan 2025
Teams with NASA are gaining momentum as work progresses toward future lunar missions for the benefit of humanity as numerous flight hardware shipments from across the world arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in...
35 Years Ago: NASA Selects its 13th Group of Astronauts
NASA · 17 Jan 2025
On Jan. 17, 1990, NASA announced the selection of its 13th group of astronaut candidates. The diverse group comprised 23 candidates – seven pilots and 16 mission specialists. The group included one African American, one...
NASA Names David Korth as Deputy, Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
NASA has selected David Korth as deputy for Johnson Space Center’s Safety and Mission Assurance directorate. Korth previously served as deputy manager of the International Space Station Avionics and Software Office at Jo...
NASA Names Mary Beth Schwartz as Director, Center Operations Directorate
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
NASA has selected Mary Beth Schwartz as director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center Center Operations directorate. Schwartz previously served as the directorate’s deputy director. “I’m excited to embark on my new role as dir...
Hubble Reveals Jupiter in Ultraviolet Light
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the planet Jupiter in a color composite of ultraviolet wavelengths. Released on Nov. 3, 2023, in honor of Jupiter reaching opposition, which occurs when the planet and the Sun...
Hubble Captures Young Stars Changing Their Environments
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away, the Orion Nebula is visible t...
NASA’s Day of Remembrance Honors Fallen Heroes of Exploration
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 23, honoring the members of the NASA family who lost their lives in the pursuit of exploration and discovery for benefit of humanity. The event, tradition...
NASA’s Hubble Traces Hidden History of Andromeda Galaxy
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Mil...
Hubble traces hidden history of the Andromeda Galaxy
ESA · 16 Jan 2025
The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations, unveils hundreds of millions of stars. It took more than 10 years to collect data for this colorful portrait o...
Aerospace Latin America: A History
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
2025 Seminar Series Throughout 2025, the NASA History Office is presenting a seminar series on the topic of Aerospace Latin America. This series will explore the origins, evolution, and historical context of aerospace in...
NASA International Space Apps Challenge Announces 2024 Global Winners
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
NASA Space Apps has named 10 global winners, recognizing teams from around the world for their exceptional innovation and collaboration during the 2024 NASA Space Apps Challenge. As the largest annual global hackathon, t...
NASA Scientists Find New Human-Caused Shifts in Global Water Cycle
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that the global water cycle is shifting in unprecedented ways. The majority of those shifts are driven by activities such as agri...
Exoplanets Need to Be Prepared for Extreme Space Weather, Chandra Finds
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) XMM-Newton that examined the effects of X-...
NASA’s Pandora Mission One Step Closer To Probing Alien Atmospheres
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which provides the structure, power, and other systems that will enable the mission to carry out its work....
NASA Solar Observatory Sees Coronal Loops Flicker Before Big Flares
NASA · 15 Jan 2025
For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares — intense bursts of light on the Sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now, using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Obser...
Langley’s Propeller Research Tunnel
NASA · 15 Jan 2025
Elton W. Miller, chief of aerodynamics at what is now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, stands in the entrance cone of the Propeller Research Tunnel in this Sept. 9, 1926, photo. In front of the entran...
NASA Seeks Proposals for Space Biology and Physical Sciences Research
NASA · 15 Jan 2025
On Dec. 19, 2024, NASA released two amendments to the NASA Research Announcement Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2024 (NNH24ZDA001N) to announce the E.9 Space Biology: Research Studies and E.12...
How It Started, How It’s Going: Johnson Space Center Edition
NASA · 15 Jan 2025
If you ask Johnson Space Center employees why they work for NASA, many will tell you it was always their dream. For others, landing a job at NASA was an unexpected stop on their career path. Here is a look at where five...
50 Years Ago: Preparing the Final Saturn Rocket for Flight
NASA · 15 Jan 2025
With the historic first international space docking mission only six months away, preparations on the ground for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) intensified. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, workers...
50 Years Ago: Preparing the Final Saturn Rocket for Flight
NASA · 15 Jan 2025
With the historic first international space docking mission only six months away, preparations on the ground for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) intensified. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, workers...
NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe
NASA · 15 Jan 2025
For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it — the flickering star is 2.2 million light-years away, and is...
Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight
NASA · 15 Jan 2025
A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on its way to our nearest celestial neighbor aboard a commercial spacecraft, where they will provide insights into the Moon’s environment and tes...
Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Poster
NASA · 14 Jan 2025
NASA’s Roman Coronagraph Instrument will greatly advance our ability to directly image exoplanets, or planets and disks around other stars. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, a technology demonstration designed and built...
Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument Poster
NASA · 14 Jan 2025
The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI), the primary instrument aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 300-megapixel visible and infrared camera that will allow scientists to perform revolutionary astrophysics sur...
Isaacman Wins Support, But Also Criticism from Republicans
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 14 Jan 2025
Jared Isaacman’s expected nomination as NASA Administrator is winning both support and criticism from Republicans. Two prominent Republicans involved in crafting the Contract with America that led to Republicans gaining
NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas
NASA · 14 Jan 2025
Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as it went. When the shockwave reached the star’s surface, it punched through, generating a brief,...
Ten NASA Science, Tech Instruments Flying to Moon on Firefly Lander
NASA · 14 Jan 2025
As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the agency is preparing to fly ten instruments aboard Firefly Aerospace’s first delivery to the Moon. These science payloads and...
NASA Deputy Administrator to Receive 2025 National Space Award
NASA · 14 Jan 2025
The Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation has selected NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, a retired United States Air Force colonel and former NASA astronaut, to receive the 2025 National Space Trophy...
Newfound Galaxy Class May Indicate Early Black Hole Growth, Webb Finds
NASA · 14 Jan 2025
In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed something never seen before: numerous red objects that appear small on the sky, which scientists soon...
New Simulated Universe Previews Panoramas From NASA’s Roman Telescope
NASA · 14 Jan 2025
Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see it. This preview will help scientists explore a myriad of Roman’...
NASA HEAT Student Activity Featured in TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2024
NASA · 13 Jan 2025
On April 8, 2024, tens of millions experienced a solar eclipse from Mexico through the United States and into Canada. Astronomers, educators, and organizations had been preparing the public for this grand celestial event...