From Sept. 6-7, 2024, NASA’s Johnson Space Center brought the excitement of space exploration to the annual Japan Festival at Hermann Park in Houston. The lively cultural event featured traditional food, dance, martial arts, and more, while Johnson’s booth attracted attendees with interactive space exhibits and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activities. Johnson Space [...]
In this photograph from 2009, the sun sets below Earth’s horizon illuminating the atmosphere as the space station orbited above the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa. The 12-member Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station spent Tuesday observing how their bodies are adapting to weightlessness, configuring life support systems, and training to use [...]
Earth ObserverEarth HomeEarth Observer HomeEditor’s CornerFeature ArticlesMeeting SummariesNewsScience in the NewsCalendarsIn MemoriamMoreArchives 16 min read ICESat-2 Hosts Third Applications Workshop Introduction The NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 mission (ICESat-2), launched September 15, 2018, continues the first ICESat mission, delivering invaluable global altimetry data. Notwithstanding its icy acronym, ICESat-2 can do more than measure [...]
Diseño del pódcast Universo curioso de la NASA, el primer pódcast en español de la agencia, que vuelve con una segunda temporada en septiembre de 2024. Créditos: NASA / Krystofer Kim Read this news release in English here. Para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana, la NASA publica nuevos contenidos para Universo curioso de [...]
Podcast art for Universo curioso de la NASA, the agency’s first podcast in Spanish, which returns for a second season in September 2024. Credits: NASA / Krystofer Kim Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, NASA is releasing new content for Universo curioso de la NASA, the agency’s [...]
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Technicians work to complete operations before propellant load occurs ahead of launch for NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2024. NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA’s Europa Clipper mission moves closer to launch as technicians worked on Wednesday, Sept. 11, inside the [...]
Earth Observer Earth Home Earth Observer Home Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam More Archives 4 min read Celebrating the First Earth Day Event at NASA Headquarters Photo. Young attendees pose in front of the NASA Worm at the Earth Day celebration at NASA HQ. Photo [...]
This enormous piece of space hardware is NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s spacecraft bus, which will maneuver the observatory to its place in space and enable it to function while there. It is photographed here in the largest clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where engineers are inspecting it upon delivery. The [...]
News Chief Rob Garner shares NASA Goddard’s story with the public, supporting writers and creators in the Office of Communications. Name: Rob Garner Title: News Chief Formal Job Classification: Senior public affairs specialist Organization: Office of Communications (Code 130) Rob Garner has worked in the Office of Communications at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in [...]
