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How Louisiana Native Turned Childhood Wonder into NASA Stennis Career

By |2025-12-09T10:00:00-05:00December 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Michelle Hoehn is a cost accountant at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, where her work contributes to NASA’s Artemis program that will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA/Danny Nowlin Michelle Hoehn vividly remembers the day a seed was planted for her future at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near [...]

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim, Crewmates Return from Space Station

By |2025-12-09T01:36:00-05:00December 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, and Alexey Zubritsky aboard, Dec. 9, 2025.NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Jonny Kim returned to Earth on Tuesday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey [...]

Soyuz Crew Lands Ending Eight-Month Space Research Journey

By |2025-12-09T00:16:00-05:00December 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Soyuz MS-27 crew members (frm left) NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky pose for a pre-flight portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia.GCTC At 12:03 a.m. EST (10:03 a.m. local time), the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft made a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the [...]

Live on NASA+: Three Soyuz Crewmates Landing on Earth Soon

By |2025-12-08T22:32:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station above Morocco on the African continent on April 8, 2025.NASA NASA’s live coverage of the Soyuz MS-27 return is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. The Soyuz spacecraft, with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and [...]

Soyuz Undocks from Station, Crew Heads for Earth Return

By |2025-12-08T20:49:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft undocks from the Prichal module to return three Expedition 73 crew members to Earth.NASA At 8:41 p.m. EST, the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station’s Prichal module with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard.   NASA’s live coverage of deorbit burn, [...]

Live on NASA+: Soyuz Crew Undocking from Station Soon

By |2025-12-08T20:31:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft is pictured docked to the Prichal module just hours before undocking from the International Space Station and returning three crew members to Earth.NASA NASA’s live coverage of undocking is now underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. At 5:30 [...]

Hatches Closed, Crew Inside Soyuz Ready to Depart

By |2025-12-08T17:40:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Soyuz MS-27 crew members (frm left) NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia.GCTC At 5:30 p.m. EST, the hatch closed between the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and return to Earth. [...]

Live on NASA+: Three Crewmates Say Farewell, Set to Depart Station

By |2025-12-08T16:48:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

From left, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky will soon depart the International Space Station inside the Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft for a landing in Kazakhstan.NASA NASA’s live departure coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social [...]

Flying Over the Earth at Night

By |2025-12-08T15:44:58-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. Such visual spectacles occur every day for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but the featured video captured several from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 and set them to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city [...]

XRISM Finds Chlorine, Potassium in Cas A

By |2025-12-08T13:07:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

This composite image of the Cassiopeia A (or Cas A) supernova remnant, released Jan. 8, 2024, contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), infrared data from Webb (red, green, blue), and optical data from Hubble (red and white). A study by the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft has made the first-ever X-ray detections of chlorine [...]

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