(From left) Expedition 73 Flight Engineers Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, both NASA astronauts, take a break and pose for a portrait aboard the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module.NASA Life science was back on the schedule for Wednesday as the Expedition 73 crew studied how living in space affects eye structure and cellular immunity. [...]
Technicians work on Artemis III Orion crew module on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians will continue assembling and testing the crew module and service module before integration in 2026. NASA/Rad Sinyak NASA continues to make steady progress preparing the [...]
X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/CalTech/IPAC; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects. As described in our press release, a team of astronomers combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray [...]
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) How do we do research in zero gravity? Actually when astronauts do experiments on the International Space Station, for instance, to environment on organisms, that environment is actually technically called microgravity. That is, things feel weightless, but we’re still under the influence of Earth’s [...]
L. Y. Zhou, a senior at Skyline High School, Ann Arbor, MI, representing the SunRISE Ground Radio Lab (GRL) summer research project team at the Solar Heliospheric and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE) conference, held in Juneau, AK in August 2024. Other contributing high school students were S. Rajavelu-Mohan (Washtenaw Technical Middle College, Ann Arbor, MI), [...]
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A digital rendering of the NASA-supported commercial space station, Vast’s Haven-1, which will provide a microgravity environment for crew, research, and in-space manufacturing.Vast NASA-supported commercial space station, Vast’s Haven-1, recently completed a test of a critical air filter system for keeping future astronauts healthy [...]
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5 Min Read Career Spotlight: Mathematician (Ages 14-18) What does a mathematician do? Mathematicians use their expert knowledge of math to solve problems and gain new understanding about how our world works. They analyze data and create mathematical models to predict results based on changes in variables. Many different fields rely heavily on math, [...]
The European robotic arm (top center) is pictured attached to the Nauka science module as the International Space Station soared into an orbital sunset above a cloudy Pacific Ocean. At left, the Soyuz MS-26 crew ship is pictured docked to the Rassvet module on Nov. 23, 2024.NASA Biomedical research topped the science schedule aboard the [...]
