jsc2025e015862 (March 7, 2025) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi poses for a portrait in his pressure suit at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
Highlights from campus to corporate tech program with Vishwakarma Institute of Technology Source
Each month, SWE spotlights one of our affinity groups. As part of their spotlight month, the Late Career and Retiree Affinity Group explores caring for elders with this conversation between Hang Loi and Mary Zeis. Source
On Feb. 3, 2025, a transformative STEM outreach event for more than 25 female students took place at Whirlpool's manufacturing plant in Puducherry, India. Source
Photo of the Day Why does this Moon look so unusual? A key reason is its vivid red color. The color is caused by the deflection of blue light by Earth's atmosphere -- the same reason that the daytime sky appears blue. The Moon also appears unusually distorted. Its strange structuring is an optical [...]
Photo of the Day There's a new lander on the Moon. Yesterday Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost executed the first-ever successful commercial lunar landing. During its planned 60-day mission, Blue Ghost will deploy several NASA-commissioned scientific instruments, including PlanetVac which captures lunar dust after creating a small whirlwind of gas. Blue Ghost will also host [...]
Photo of the Day Have you heard about the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field? Either way, you've likely not heard about it like this -- please run your cursor over the featured image and listen! The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) was created in 2003-2004 with the Hubble Space Telescope staring for a long time toward near-empty [...]
Photo of the Day With spacecraft thrusters at top center, the rugged surface of the Moon lies below the Blue Ghost lander in this space age video frame. The view of the lunar far side was captured by the Firefly Aerospace lunar lander on February 24, following a maneuver to circularize its orbit about [...]
Crews at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, moved and installed the payload adapter that will be used in the Block 1B configuration of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket from Building 4708, where it was manufactured, into Structural Test Stand 4697 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on March 13. [...]
These photos and videos show how crews guided a test version of the universal stage adapter for NASA’s more powerful version of its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to Building 4619 at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Feb. 22. Built by Leidos, the lead contractor for the universal stage adapter, crews [...]
