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SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi from JAXA

By |2025-03-08T07:08:49-05:00March 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

jsc2025e015862 (March 7, 2025) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi poses for a portrait in his pressure suit at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX

NASA Earns Best Place to Work in Government for 13th Consecutive Year 

By |2025-03-07T16:33:00-05:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Worm logo is displayed in front of the agency’s headquarters in Washington.Credit: NASA For the 13th straight year, NASA has earned the title of Best Place to Work in the Federal Government – large agency – from the Partnership for Public Service. The ranking reflects employee satisfaction and workplace elements across the agency while [...]

Cosmic Mapmaker: NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Ready to Launch

By |2025-03-07T15:34:00-05:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Ahead of launch, NASA’s SPHEREx is enclosed in a payload fairing at Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 2. The observatory is stacked atop the four small satellites that make up the agency’s PUNCH mission.NASA/BAE Systems/Benjamin Fry NASA’s latest space observatory is targeting a [...]

NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission

By |2025-03-07T14:59:00-05:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 captured an image March 6, 2025, after landing in a crater from the Moon’s South Pole. The lunar lander is on its side about 820 feet from the intended landing site, Mons Mouton. In the center of the image between the two lander legs is the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 [...]

Station Swaps Commanders and Keeps Up Research Before Crew Swap

By |2025-03-07T14:28:00-05:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin (left) speaks to mission controllers after astronaut Suni Williams (right) handed over command of the International Space Station to the veteran crew member while the rest of the Expedition 72 crew looks on.NASA+ Expedition 72 changed commanders today as a new crew prepares to launch to the International Space Station and four [...]

NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson Speaks to Students

By |2025-03-07T13:48:00-05:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson points to the Expedition 71 patch on her flight suit on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Dyson and her fellow Expedition 71 crewmates Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps answered questions from students at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington. While aboard the International Space [...]

NASA Invites Creators to Design Mascot for Artemis Moon Mission

By |2025-03-07T13:40:00-05:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA is seeking design ideas from global creators for a zero gravity indicator that will fly aboard the agency’s Artemis II test flight. Zero gravity indicators are small, plush items carried aboard spacecraft to provide a visual indication of when the spacecraft and its crew reach space. This opportunity, with a submission [...]

NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Oregon

By |2025-03-07T11:14:00-05:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Don Pettit inside the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft. (Credit: NASA) Students from Oregon will have the chance to connect with NASA astronaut Don Pettit as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 2:15 p.m. EDT on Monday, March 10, on [...]

NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System

By |2025-03-07T10:00:00-05:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Webb News Latest News Latest Images Blog (offsite) Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Observatory Overview Launch [...]

Hubble Spies a Spiral in the Water Snake

By |2025-03-07T08:21:00-05:00March 7th, 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 [...]

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