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Mississippi Attorney Serves NASA and the Nation

By |2025-08-06T10:00:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Nathan Jermyn frequented NASA Stennis on field trips when he was younger. Now, he works as an attorney-advisor supporting NASA Stennis and the NASA Shared Services Center. NASA/Danny Nowlin Before Nathan Jermyn could dig into the legal frameworks at NASA, he had to answer a different call. Jermyn participated in a one-day orientation in the [...]

Crew Swaps Commanders, Waits for Departure, and Conducts Muscle and Blood Research

By |2025-08-05T17:49:00-04:00August 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi (right) shakes hands with Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov (left) after handing him command of the International Space Station during the Change of Command Ceremony as the rest of the Expedition 73 crew observes. Muscle stimulation and blood circulation research topped the 11-member Expedition 73 crew’s schedule on Tuesday helping doctor’s ensure [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4618-4619: The Boxwork Structures Continue to Call to Us

By |2025-08-05T16:58:00-04:00August 5th, 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 [...]

NASA Selects Six Companies to Provide Orbital Transfer Vehicle Studies

By |2025-08-05T16:09:00-04:00August 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Rendering of Quantum’s Ranger spacecraft engineered for rapid maneuverability and adaptability, enabling multi-destination delivery for missions from low Earth orbit to cislunar space.Credit: Arrow Science and Technology/Quantum Space   Rendering of Blue Ring, a large high-mobility space platform providing full-service payload delivery, on-board edge computing, hosting, and end-to-end mission operations.Credit: Blue Origin Rendering of Firefly’s [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission

By |2025-08-05T15:44:00-04:00August 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

7 Min Read NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission with agency astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov is preparing to return to Earth in early August after [...]

NASA Science Activation Teams Unite to Support Neurodiverse Learners with Public Libraries

By |2025-08-05T15:26:00-04:00August 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This SectionScienceScience ActivationNASA Science Activation Teams…OverviewLearning ResourcesScience Activation TeamsSME MapOpportunitiesMoreScience Activation StoriesCitizen Science  3 min read NASA Science Activation Teams Unite to Support Neurodiverse Learners with Public Libraries On July 16, 2025, more than 400 public library staff from across the United States joined a powerful webinar, Serving Neurodiverse Library Patrons and Colleagues, hosted [...]

NGC 6072: A Complex Planetary Nebula from Webb

By |2025-08-05T13:44:26-04:00August 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why is this nebula so complex? The Webb Space Telescope has imaged a nebula in great detail that is thought to have emerged from a Sun-like star. NGC 6072 has been resolved into one of the more unusual and complex examples of planetary nebula. The featured image is in infrared [...]

What is NASA’s Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy?

By |2025-08-05T12:58:00-04:00August 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Software designed to give spacecraft more autonomy could support a future where swarms of satellites navigate and complete scientific objectives with limited human intervention. Caleb Adams, Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy project manager, monitors testing alongside the test racks containing 100 spacecraft computers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The DSA project develops and [...]

Second Lady Usha Vance, NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Celebrate Reading

By |2025-08-05T11:57:00-04:00August 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Second Lady Usha Vance and NASA astronaut Suni Williams listen to the audience in this image from Aug. 4, 2025. Ms. Vance joined Williams at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for a summer reading challenge event, through which the Second Lady encourages youth to seek adventure, imagination, and discovery between the pages of [...]

Station Expands to 11 Before Next Crew Leaves This Week

By |2025-08-04T16:18:00-04:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Expedition 73 welcomes NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission aboard the International Space Station. In the front from left are, Crew-11 members Oleg Platonov, Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and Kimiya Yui. In the back are, Expedition 73 members Takuya Onishi, Kirill Peskov, Alexey Zubritsky, Sergey Ryzhikov, Jonny Kim, Nichole Ayers, and Anne McClain.@Astro_Ayers Four new crew members [...]

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