The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft fires its Draco engines on Aug. 25, 2025, fine-tuning its automated approach and rendezvous with the International Space Station.NASA Eye structure, digestion, and heart health were the top research subjects for the Expedition 73 crew aboard International Space Station on Thursday. Doctors constantly monitor the health of station crew members [...]
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA’s understanding of space weather by measuring radiation exposure to air travelers and validating global radiation maps used in flight path planning. This unique data also has value beyond the Earth as a celestial roadmap for [...]
3 Min Read NASA Opens 2026 Human Lander Challenge for Life Support Systems, More NASA’s 2026 Human Lander Challenge is seeking ideas from college and university students to help evolve and transform technologies for life support and environmental control systems. These systems are critical for sustainable, long-duration human spaceflight missions to the Moon, Mars, [...]
The Sierra Space Dream Chaser winged spacecraft is seen stacked atop its Shooting Star cargo module on the vibration table at NASA’s Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, while undergoing testing to simulate launch and re-entry conditions.NASA In 2016, NASA awarded a Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract to Sierra Space, formerly part of Sierra Nevada Corporation, to resupply [...]
NASA/Kim Shiflett A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 24, 2025, carrying three missions that will investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system. NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), the agency’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange [...]
Captured on Aug. 21, this image from NISAR’s L-band radar shows Maine’s Mount Desert Island. Green indicates forest; magenta represents hard or regular surfaces, like bare ground and buildings. The magenta area on the island’s northeast end is the town of Bar Harbor. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth-observing radar satellite’s first [...]
Explore This Section Science For Professionals NASA & STEM Learning… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science 2 min read NASA & STEM Learning Ecosystems: Opportunities & Benefits for Everyone STEM learning ecosystems are intentionally designed, community-wide partnerships that enable all Americans to actively participate [...]
NASA astronaut Chris Williams poses for an official portrait at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.Credit: NASA NASA will host a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 1, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight the upcoming mission of astronaut Chris Williams to the International Space Station. The news [...]
Left to right: Moderator Brian Miske, Americas Space Leader, KPMG radio, with panelists Amit Kshatriya, NASA associate administrator; Jacki Cortese, senior director, Civil Space: Blue Origin; and Robert Lightfoot, president, Lockheed Martin Space (former NASA associate administrator) discuss balancing innovation, risk, and readiness in space during the Ohio Space Forum. Credit: NASA/Jef Janis Ohio Space Week, [...]
3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Since April 1999, the AeroSpace Frontiers (AF) newsletter has shared information monthly on NASA Glenn Research Center’s people, projects, and progress. If you were looking for news on any of these topics, there was a good chance you could read all about them in [...]
