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NASA Names Norman Knight as Acting Deputy Director of Johnson Space Center

By |2025-03-03T10:02:00-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Official NASA portrait of Norman D. Knight. Credit: NASA NASA has selected Norman Knight as acting deputy director of Johnson Space Center. Knight currently serves as Director of Johnson’s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD), responsible for astronaut training and for overall planning, directing, managing, and implementing overall mission operations for NASA human spaceflight programs. This also [...]

NASA’s Webb Exposes Complex Atmosphere of Starless Super-Jupiter

By |2025-03-03T10:00:00-05:00March 3rd, 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 [...]

NASA Marks 110 Years Since Founding of Predecessor Organization

By |2025-03-03T09:47:00-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) To celebrate the 110th anniversary of the organization that ultimately became NASA, the agency released a new collection of videos to highlight the history of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the ways it transformed flight over four decades. A new video [...]

Blue Ghost on the Moon

By |2025-03-03T08:09:07-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day There's a new lander on the Moon. Yesterday Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost executed the first-ever successful commercial lunar landing. During its planned 60-day mission, Blue Ghost will deploy several NASA-commissioned scientific instruments, including PlanetVac which captures lunar dust after creating a small whirlwind of gas. Blue Ghost will also host [...]

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound

By |2025-03-02T08:09:10-05:00March 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Have you heard about the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field? Either way, you've likely not heard about it like this -- please run your cursor over the featured image and listen! The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) was created in 2003-2004 with the Hubble Space Telescope staring for a long time toward near-empty [...]

Touchdown! Carrying NASA Science, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon

By |2025-03-02T04:36:00-05:00March 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

First image captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, taken shortly after confirmation of a successful landing at Mare Crisium on the Moon’s near side. This is the second lunar delivery of NASA science and tech instruments as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.Credit: Firefly Aerospace Carrying a suite of NASA science [...]

Progress Cargo Craft Docks to Station Resupplying Crew

By |2025-03-01T18:09:00-05:00March 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

March 1, 2025: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, the Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply ship, the Soyuz MS-26 crew ship, and the Progress 90 and 91 resupply ships.NASA The unpiloted Progress 91 spacecraft arrived at the aft port of the orbiting laboratory’s Zvezda [...]

Blue Ghost to the Moon

By |2025-03-01T08:09:35-05:00March 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day With spacecraft thrusters at top center, the rugged surface of the Moon lies below the Blue Ghost lander in this space age video frame. The view of the lunar far side was captured by the Firefly Aerospace lunar lander on February 24, following a maneuver to circularize its orbit about [...]

SLS Payload Adapter Moved for Testing at NASA Marshall

By |2025-03-01T07:09:18-05:00March 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , |

Crews at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, moved and installed the payload adapter that will be used in the Block 1B configuration of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket from Building 4708, where it was manufactured, into Structural Test Stand 4697 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on March 13. [...]

Universal Stage Adapter for NASA’s SLS rocket readied for testing at Marshall

By |2025-02-28T19:09:21-05:00February 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

These photos and videos show how crews guided a test version of the universal stage adapter for NASA’s more powerful version of its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to Building 4619 at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Feb. 22. Built by Leidos, the lead contractor for the universal stage adapter, crews [...]

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