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NASA Brings Drone and Space Rover to Air Show

By |2024-10-30T12:44:00-04:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) About 20,000 guests visited NASA’s tent at the Miramar Air Show in San Diego, California, Sept. 27-29, 2024. NASA Lee esta historia en Español aquí. In September, the three NASA centers in California came together to share aerospace innovations with thousands of guests at the [...]

La NASA lleva un dron y un rover espacial a un espectáculo aéreo

By |2024-10-30T12:43:00-04:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Aproximadamente 20,000 visitantes pasaron por la carpa de la NASA en el Espectáculo Aéreo de Miramar, celebrado en San Diego, California, entre el 27 y el 29 de septiembre de 2024.NASA Read this story in English here. En septiembre, los tres centros de la [...]

NASA Sets Coverage for SpaceX 31st Station Resupply Launch, Arrival

By |2024-10-30T12:36:00-04:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carried on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, will launch from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the agency’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.Credit: SpaceX NASA and SpaceX are targeting 9:29 p.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 4, for the next launch to [...]

NASA, NOAA Rank 2024 Ozone Hole as 7th-Smallest Since Recovery Began

By |2024-10-30T12:00:00-04:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern pole was relatively small in 2024 compared to other years. Scientists with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) project the ozone [...]

Station Crew Gets Ready for Dragon Relocation and Cargo Missions

By |2024-10-30T11:41:00-04:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is pictured docked to the International Space Station as it soared 257 miles above Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico on Oct. 8, 2024. The Expedition 72 crew is getting ready for a port relocation maneuver this weekend as a new cargo mission counts down to a lift off [...]

60 Years Ago: The First Flight of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle

By |2024-10-30T11:36:00-04:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

President John F. Kennedy’s national commitment to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth before the end of the decade posed multiple challenges, among them how to train astronauts to land on the Moon, a place with no atmosphere and one-sixth the gravity on Earth. The Lunar Landing Research [...]

NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024

By |2024-10-30T11:15:00-04:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for space travel, enable communications with spacecraft at record-breaking distances, and determine the habitability of a moon of Jupiter, were named Wednesday among TIME’s Inventions of 2024. “The NASA workforce — wizards, as I call them [...]

A Spooky Soliday: Haunting Whispers from the Martian Landscape

By |2024-10-30T10:57:00-04:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Mars: Perseverance (Mars 2020) Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance [...]

Ken Iliff: Engineering 40 Years of Success

By |2024-10-29T16:12:00-04:00October 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

10 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Editor’s note: This article was published May 23, 2003, in NASA Armstrong’s X-Press newsletter. NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was redesignated Armstrong Flight Research Center on March 1, 2014. Ken Iliff was inducted into the National Hall of Fame for Persons [...]

A Particular Lenticular Cloud

By |2024-10-29T15:05:00-04:00October 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

New Zealand’s stunning scenery has famously provided the backdrop for fictional worlds in fantasy films. A unique cloud that forms over the Otago region of the country’s South Island also evokes the otherworldly, while very much existing in reality.NASA/Lauren Dauphin; USGS Landsat 8’s Operational Land Imager acquired this image of an elongated lenticular cloud, locally [...]

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