Pictured inside the Cygnus XL cargo craft are (clockwise from left) astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Jonny Kim, and Kimiya Yui. Highlighted at center, is a poster of William “Willie” McCool, in honor of the NASA astronaut who perished in 2003 during the space shuttle Columbia accident and for whom the Cygnus spacecraft is named.NASA [...]
2 min read New File Download Process for PSI Large Requests A recent update to the PSI database improves how large dataset downloads are handled, resulting in more efficient processing for users. Download requests larger than 1GB are now delivered via email, rather than downloading directly from the website. This allows the system to [...]
3 min read Joe A. Adam Presents Ring Sheared Drop (RSD) Research at 2025 ISSRDC The Ring-Sheared Drop (RSD) experiment, conducted in the Microgravity Glovebox on ISS, helps scientists learn more about Alzheimer’s & Dementia in hopes of a future cure to similar neurological diseases. NASA At the virtual 2025 ISS Research and Development [...]
Photo of the Day It may look like these comets are racing, but they are not. Comets C/2025 K1 ATLAS (left) and C/2025 R2 SWAN (right) appeared near each other by chance last week in the featured image taken from France's Reunion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Fainter Comet ATLAS is approaching our [...]
NASA announced its newest class of astronaut candidates on Sept. 22, 2025, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After the welcome ceremony, the 10 highly qualified individuals rolled up their sleeves and prepared for the next step in their journey to the stars: nearly two years of training to become flight-eligible for missions [...]
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Photo of the Day On the morning of September 24 a rocket crosses the bright solar disk in this long range telescopic snapshot captured from Orlando, Florida. That's about 50 miles north of its Kennedy Space Center launch site. This rocket carried three new space weather missions to space. Signals have now been successfully [...]
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NASA has selected Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc. of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to provide custodial, janitorial, landscaping, and recycling services for the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Facilities Custodial and Landscaping award is a firm-fixed-price hybrid completion and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The contract includes one 12-month base period and up to four [...]
Expedition 73 Flight Engineers Zena Cardman and Jonny Kim, both NASA astronauts, smile for a portrait during a break in thier research duties duties aboard the International Space Station.NASA The Expedition 73 crew ended the work week exploring how living and working in space affects the sensory system and DNA. The International Space Station residents [...]
