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NASA Science Supports Data Literacy for K-12 Students

By |2025-04-09T14:28:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation NASA Science Supports Data… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   3 min read NASA Science Supports Data Literacy for K-12 Students Data – and our ability to understand and use it – shapes nearly every aspect of our [...]

Mike Drury: A 40-Year Legacy of Precision

By |2025-04-09T12:01:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Deputy Integration and Testing Manager – Goddard Space Flight Center Mike Drury began at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as a temporary technician — a contractor hired for six weeks to set up High Capacity Centrifuge tests. Six weeks then turned into three months and, eventually, over 40 years. Mike Drury, the [...]

NASA’s Planetary Defenders Documentary Premieres April 16

By |2025-04-09T11:15:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA is bringing the world of planetary defense to the public with its new documentary, “Planetary Defenders.” Dr. Shantanu Naidu, Asteroid Radar Researcher, from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory points toward the Goldstone Solar System Radar in Barstow, CA – the most powerful planetary radar [...]

HH 49: Interstellar Jet from Webb

By |2025-04-09T09:09:18-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's at the tip of this interstellar jet? First let's consider the jet: it is being expelled by a star system just forming and is cataloged as Herbig-Haro 49 (HH 49). The star system expelling this jet is not visible -- it is off to the lower right. The complex [...]

Sols 4505-4506: Up, up and onto the Devil’s Gate 

By |2025-04-08T18:57:00-04:00April 8th, 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 3 min [...]

Welcome to the Mission Support Directorate (MSD)

By |2025-04-08T16:21:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Portrait of David Mitchell, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson building in Washington.NASA/Bill Ingalls David Mitchell, the Associate Administrator for MSD.    Have you ever wondered how NASA manages to achieve all the incredible missions it does, like probing the Sun and [...]

Welcome to the Mission Support Directorate

By |2025-04-08T16:21:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Portrait of David Mitchell, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson building in Washington.NASA/Bill Ingalls David Mitchell, Associate Administrator for Mission Support Directorate  Have you ever wondered how NASA manages to achieve all the incredible missions it does, like probing the Sun [...]

Sixty Years in Canberra: NASA’s Deep Space Network

By |2025-04-08T15:35:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Deep Space Station 43 (DSS-43), a 230-foot-wide (70-meter-wide) radio antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, is seen in this March 4, 2020, image. DSS-43 was more than six times as sensitive as the original antenna at the Canberra complex, so it could communicate with spacecraft at greater distances from Earth. [...]

Findings from the Field: A Research Symposium for Student Scientists

By |2025-04-08T14:41:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Findings from the Field: A… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   3 min read Findings from the Field: A Research Symposium for Student Scientists Within the scientific community, peer review has become the process norm for which an [...]

NASA’s First Flight With Crew Important Step on Long-term Return to the Moon, Missions to Mars

By |2025-04-08T13:15:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronauts (left to right) Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel The Artemis II test flight will be NASA’s first mission with crew under Artemis. Astronauts on their first flight aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft will confirm all of the spacecraft’s systems operate as designed with crew [...]

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