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NASA, Intuitive Machines Host Lunar Landing News Conference

By |2025-03-06T18:36:00-05:00March 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander touched down at approximately 12:30 p.m. EST on March 6, 2025. Watch the IM-2 post-landing news conference for more information. Participants included Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters; Clayton Turner, associate administrator, Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters; Steve Altemus, CEO, Intuitive Machines, and Tim Crain, chief [...]

Sealing the Deal

By |2025-03-06T18:29:00-05:00March 6th, 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 2 min [...]

Sols 4473-4474: So Many Rocks, So Many Textures!

By |2025-03-06T17:58:00-05:00March 6th, 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 5 min [...]

Engineers Install Orion Solar Array Wings for Artemis II

By |2025-03-06T16:38:00-05:00March 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis II on March 3. The solar array wings, attached to the service module, deploy after Orion reaches space to power the spacecraft. Orion’s service module provides propulsion, thermal control, and electrical power, as well [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Scientific Mission on Space Station Concludes

By |2025-03-06T16:28:00-05:00March 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission with agency astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov is preparing to return to Earth following their science mission aboard the International Space Station. Hague, Williams, and Wilmore completed more than 900 hours of research between over 150 unique scientific experiments and technology demonstrations during [...]

Kachemak Bay’s Stony Waters

By |2025-03-06T15:16:00-05:00March 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Michala Garrison, USGS The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured an image of Kachemak Bay’s turbid, cloudy waters on September 20, 2024. This cloudiness comes from glacial flour: bits of pulverized rock ground down by glaciers that has the consistency of flour. Several meltwater streams rich with the particles, sometimes called suspended sediment, absorb and scatter sunlight in ways that [...]

NASA Invites You to Share Excitement of Agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launch

By |2025-03-06T15:14:00-05:00March 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov onboard, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA/Keegan Barber NASA invites the public to take part in [...]

What You Need to Know about NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission

By |2025-03-06T14:17:00-05:00March 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The official portrait of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members with (from left) Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos; Pilot Nicole Ayers and Commander Anne McClain, both NASA astronauts; and Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency).NASA/Bill Stafford/Helen Arase Vargas Four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part [...]

Intuitive Machines Mission Lands Near South Pole Carrying NASA Science

By |2025-03-06T14:08:00-05:00March 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Intuitive Machines’ confirmed its lunar lander, Athena, touched down on the Moon at approximately 11:30 a.m. CST on Thursday. The company’s IM-2 mission is part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative.  A post-landing news conference will take place at 4 p.m. EST from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Watch live on NASA+. [...]

NASA Seeks Commercial Partner for Robots Aboard Space Station

By |2025-03-06T13:44:00-05:00March 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) As NASA continues to enable a sustainable, cost-effective commercial space economy, the agency is seeking partnership proposals for the operations, sustaining engineering, and utilization of Astrobee, a free-flying robotic system aboard the International Space Station. The Announcement for Partnership Proposal contains instructions and criteria [...]

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