Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida participate in the first joint integrated launch countdown simulation for Artemis I inside Firing Room 1 of the Launch Control Center on July 8, 2021. Seen at the top of the room is Charlie Blackwell-Thompson (right), launch director.Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky As four astronauts venture around the Moon [...]
Photo of the Day That yellow spot -- what is it? It's a young planet outside our Solar System. The featured image from the Very Large Telescope in Chile surprisingly captures a distant scene much like our own Solar System's birth, some 4.5 billion years ago. Although we can't look into the past and [...]
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Robert Mosher, HIAD materials and processing lead at NASA Langley, holds up a piece of webbing material, known as Zylon, which comprise the straps of the HIAD.NASA/Joe Atkinson Components of a NASA technology that could one day help crew and cargo enter harsh planetary [...]
2 Min Read NASA Seeks Volunteers to Track Artemis II Mission On the 19th day of the Artemis I mission, Dec. 4, 2022, a camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured the Moon just in frame. Credits: NASA NASA seeks volunteers to passively track the Artemis II Orion spacecraft as the crewed mission travels [...]
NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA astronaut Zena Cardman poses for a portrait in a photography studio on March 22, 2024, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Cardman is currently aboard the International Space Station, where she perform research, technology demonstrations, and maintenance activities. Recently, she took a robotics test on a computer for the portion [...]
3 Min Read Inside NASA’s New Orion Mission Evaluation Room for Artemis II As NASA’s Orion spacecraft is carrying crew around the Moon on the Artemis II mission, a team of expert engineers in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will be meticulously monitoring the spacecraft along its journey. [...]
Kathleen Grover shares what it was like to interview, secure a role, and transition back to the STEM workforce. Plus, learn about SWE’s reentry resources for engineers. Source
iss073e0508120 (Aug. 15, 2025) — The seven-member Expedition 73 crew gathers together for a dinnertime portrait inside the galley of the International Space Station’s Unity module. In the front from left are, Flight Engineers Zena Cardman of NASA, Kimiya Yui of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Jonny Kim of NASA. In the back are, [...]
Have you heard the news? The wildly popular hands-on technical workshop sessions are returning to a WE Local conference near you! Have an idea for a technical workshop? We want to hear from you. Source
Near the center of this image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory lies the pulsar B1509-58, a rapidly spinning neutron star that is only about 12 miles in diameter. This tiny object is responsible for producing an intricate nebula that resembles a human hand with a palm and extended fingers pointing to the upper right.X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. [...]
