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NASA Aircraft to Make Low-Altitude Flights in Mid-Atlantic, California

By |2025-06-20T08:47:00-04:00June 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) From Sunday, June 22 to Wednesday, July 2, two research aircraft will make a series of low-altitude atmospheric research flights near Philadelphia, Baltimore, and some Virginia cities, including Richmond, as well as over the Los Angeles Basin, Salton Sea, and Central Valley in California. [...]

Hubble Studies Small but Mighty Galaxy

By |2025-06-20T07:00:00-04:00June 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

NASA Provides Latest Axiom Mission 4 Launch, Station Operations Update

By |2025-06-19T18:45:00-04:00June 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left to right: ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, and Tibor Kapu [...]

NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble

By |2025-06-19T12:44:24-04:00June 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is a mere 35 million light-years away, toward the northern springtime constellation Leo. Relatively bright in planet Earth's sky, NGC 3521 is easily visible in small telescopes but often overlooked by amateur imagers in favor of other Leo spiral galaxies, like M66 and M65. It's [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4573-4574: Welcome to the Uyuni Quad

By |2025-06-18T16:20:00-04:00June 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 min [...]

Crew Videotapes, Photographs Station Activities and Hardware for Training and Inspection

By |2025-06-18T15:15:00-04:00June 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi monitors the Internal Ball Camera 2 inside the Kibo laboratory module. The spherical, free-flying robotic camera tests the automation of capturing video and imagery enabling more crew time for important duties such as microgravity research.NASA Video and photography operations filled the Expedition 73 crew’s schedule on Wednesday helping mission controllers monitor [...]

NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York, Utah

By |2025-06-18T14:39:00-04:00June 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronauts (left to right) Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers pose for a portrait together aboard the International Space Station. Moments earlier, Ayers finished trimming McClain’s hair using an electric razor with a suction hose attached that collects the loose hair to protect the station’s atmosphere.NASA Students from New York and Utah will hear from [...]

NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge

By |2025-06-18T14:07:00-04:00June 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Charles Beason Two students guide their rover through an obstacle course in this April 11, 2025, image from the 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The annual engineering competition – one of NASA’s longest standing student challenges – is in its 31st year. This year’s competition challenged teams to design, build, and test a lunar rover [...]

Digital Information Platform Library

By |2025-06-18T13:24:00-04:00June 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Library Scientific papers, industry forum presentations, and videos covering the concepts used in the digital information platform are available to the public. For those interested in a deeper understanding of the technical workings of DIP, please refer to these resources. Newsletters April 2025 December [...]

DIP Events

By |2025-06-18T13:24:00-04:00June 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Getty Images November 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST Digital Information Platform Virtual Workshop: A Virtual Workshop on Service Quality, Data Governance, Cybersecurity, and Interoperability June 28, 2023 at 10:00 AM EDT DIP Information Session: Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity (ACO) for Service Providers July [...]

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