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NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Next Commercial Moon Launch

By |2025-02-21T15:22:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Caption: The Intuitive Machines lunar lander that will deliver NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign is encapsulated in the fairing of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: SpaceX Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the [...]

Muscle, Eye, and Breath Research Keeping Crews Healthy in Weightlessness

By |2025-02-21T15:14:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Milky Way appears beyond Earth’s horizon in this celestial photograph captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit using a camera with low light and long duration settings pointed out a window on the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft. The International Space Station was orbiting 265 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile just [...]

NASA Marks Artemis Progress With Gateway Lunar Space Station

By |2025-02-21T14:43:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Gateway’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) in a cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy. After final installations are complete, it will be packaged and transported to the United States for final outfitting before being integrated with Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element and launched to lunar orbit. Thales Alenia Space Through the Artemis campaign, [...]

Blue Ghost Prepares for Landing, NASA Instrument Breaks Record

By |2025-02-21T14:15:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is nearly one week away from its Moon landing on Sunday, March 2, after launching on Jan.15. In preparation for landing, Blue Ghost will complete its final lunar orbit maneuver scheduled for Monday, Feb. 24. This maneuver will insert Blue Ghost into a near-circular low lunar orbit, bringing the lander [...]

NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind 

By |2025-02-21T10:23:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Min Read NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind  Earth is immersed in material streaming from the Sun. This stream, called the solar wind, is washing over our planet, causing breathtaking auroras, impacting satellites and astronauts in space, and even affecting ground-based infrastructure.  NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona [...]

Hubble Spies a Spiral That May Be Hiding an Imposter

By |2025-02-21T08:10:00-05:00February 21st, 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 [...]

Sols 4458-4460: Winter Schminter

By |2025-02-20T18:58:00-05:00February 20th, 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 2 min read Sols [...]

Guiding Orion: Jorge Chong’s Mission to Advance Deep Space Exploration 

By |2025-02-20T16:30:00-05:00February 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Jorge Chong is helping shape the future of human spaceflight, one calculation at a time. As a project manager for TRON (Tracking and Ranging via Optical Navigation) and a guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) test engineer in the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, he is leading efforts to ensure the Orion spacecraft can navigate deep [...]

Crew Works Ongoing Spacecraft Operations, Robotics, and Combustion Science

By |2025-02-20T16:14:00-05:00February 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for portrait inside the vestibule between the International Space Station and the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft. Clockwise from left, are NASA astronauts Butch Wimore, Nick Hague, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.NASA Docked spacecraft operations were the main focus at the International Space Station on Thursday with [...]

60 Years Ago: Ranger 8 Moon Photos Aid in Apollo Site Selection 

By |2025-02-20T15:59:00-05:00February 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the Moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists believed the Moon had a solid surface that would support astronauts and their landing craft, a few believed a deep layer of dust covered it that would swallow any visitors. Until 1964, no closeup photographs of the [...]

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