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NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge

By |2024-09-13T13:03:00-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Image Credit: BitGrit The Digital Information Platform (DIP) Sub-Project of Air Traffic Management – eXploration (ATM-X) is seeking to make available in the National Airspace System a variety of live data feeds and services built on that data. The goal is to allow external partners to build advanced, data-driven services using this data and to [...]

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training

By |2024-09-13T12:52:00-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training Credits: NASA/Trevor Graff/Robert Markowitz Black and gray sediment stretches as far as the eye can see. Boulders sit on top of ground devoid of vegetation. Humans appear almost miniature in scale against a swath of shadowy mountains. At first glance, it [...]

Aurora Australis and the International Space Station

By |2024-09-13T09:09:06-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This snapshot from the International Space Station was taken on August 11 while orbiting about 430 kilometers above the Indian Ocean, Southern Hemisphere, planet Earth. The spectacular view looks south and east, down toward the planet's horizon and through red and green curtains of aurora australis. The auroral glow is [...]

Hubble Examines a Spiral Star Factory

By |2024-09-13T07:00:00-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Hubble Space Telescope Home Hubble Examines a Spiral Star… Missions 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 [...]

Station Crew Expands to 12 as New Arrivals Work Half-Day

By |2024-09-12T15:10:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

Six Expedition 71 crew members pose for a portrait inside the Rassvet module moments before three Soyuz MS-26 crew members enter the space station. Three new crewmates joined the International Space Station crew on Wednesday after a three-hour ride that began at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with a launch aboard the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft. [...]

Testing Europa Clipper’s Solar Arrays

By |2024-09-12T14:57:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Frank Michaux On Aug. 21, 2024, engineers and technicians deployed and tested NASA’s Europa Clipper giant solar arrays. Each array measures about 46.5 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13.5 feet (4.1 meters) high. Europa Clipper is scheduled to launch Oct. 10, 2024, on the first mission to conduct a detailed science investigation of Jupiter’s [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Conduct Space Station Research

By |2024-09-12T14:00:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around.NASA NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are headed to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission in September. Once on station, these crew members will support scientific investigations that include studies of blood [...]

Printed Engines Propel the Next Industrial Revolution

By |2024-09-12T13:32:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A laser powder directed energy deposition (LP-DED) 3D printer at RPM Innovations’ facility additively manufactures a large-scale aerospike rocket engine nozzle from one of Elementum 3D’s specialized, 3D-printable aluminum alloys.RPM Innovations Inc. In the fall of 2023, NASA hot fire tested an aluminum 3D [...]

NASA Moon to Mars Architecture Art Challenge

By |2024-09-12T10:54:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA wants you to visualize the future of space exploration! This art challenge is looking for creative, artistic images to represent NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture, the agency’s roadmap for crewed exploration of deep space. With NASA’s Moon to Mars Objectives in hand, the agency is developing an architecture for crewed exploration of the Moon, Mars, [...]

NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives 

By |2024-09-12T10:51:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Moon is pictured on Dec. 7, 2022, the day before its Full Moon phase from the International Space Station as it orbited above the southern Indian Ocean.Credit: NASA NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) following a policy directive from the White [...]

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