A Day in the Life of a Manufacturing Engineer — Claire Mulford
Meet SWE member Claire Mulford and learn more about her work as a workflow automation engineer and her life outside of the office. Read more at All Together
Robotics, Science Underway as Cosmonauts Prep for Wednesday Spacewalk
Cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov (left) and Sergei Mikaev (right) are pictured inside the Poisk module’s airlock trying on their Orlan spacesuits as NASA flight engineer Jessica Meir (center) assists them.Sophie Adenot/ESA (European Space Agency) Robotics controllers wrapped up a weekend of swapping scientific hardware packed inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft’s trunk for installation on the [...]
Chennai City Lights
NASA/Chris Williams Chennai, on India’s southern coast along the Bay of Bengal and with a metropolitan population of about 8.7 million, shines with white LED streetlights in this photograph taken at approximately 9:13 p.m. local time on May 2, 2026, from the International Space Station. Earth observations from the space station let us see how [...]
New Instrument Used Antarctic Ice Sheet to Probe Extreme Universe
This image shows PUEO at the Long Duration Balloon Facility in Antarctica, immediately after balloon release. Credit: NASA/Scott Battaion The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program mission designed to detect the most energetic particles in the universe. The PUEO mission flew high above Antarctica on a Long Duration Balloon (LDB) and used [...]
Jaclyn Kagey Shapes Humanity’s Return to the Moon
3 Min Read Jaclyn Kagey Shapes Humanity’s Return to the Moon Jaclyn Kagey trains in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, where astronauts and flight controllers rehearse spacewalk procedures in a simulated microgravity environment. Credits: NASA For Jaclyn Kagey, preparing astronauts to put boots on the Moon is part of her daily work. As the Artemis extravehicular activity lead in NASA’s Flight Operations [...]
Call for Creatives: NASA Seeks Help Illuminating Mission Storytelling
Credit: NASA As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to share mission stories covering Artemis Moon missions, nuclear propulsion, aeronautics, and more. NASA published an Announcement for Proposals on May 21 asking filmmakers, documentarians, songwriters, storytellers, poets, and others to submit proposals [...]
NASA Sets Coverage for Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station
Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov is pictured at the end of the European robotic arm as he works on a high‑resolution camera during a six‑hour, nine‑minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Oct. 16, 2025.Credit: NASA NASA will provide live coverage on Wednesday, May 27, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the International [...]
Webb Studies Star Clusters
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Pedrini, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team This near-infrared image released on May 6, 2026, shows a section of one of the spiral arms of Messier 51 (M51). M51 is one of four nearby galaxies observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in a study of nearly [...]
Cancer Treatment, Cartilage Repair, and Spacesuit Checks Wrap Up Week
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway work together to process stem cell samples aboard the Kibo laboratory module. Meir nourished the stem cells inside Kibo’s Life Science Glovebox after Hathaway retrieved them from a science freezer, thawed them, and handed them over for treatment. The research may lead to the development of space-designed therapies [...]
Keeping NASA Flying: Ground Crews Ensure Aircraft Readiness
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA crew chief Walt Kondracki checks an F-15 aircraft Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Ground crews, made of various roles, maintain the aircraft to be ready for each mission.NASA/Carla Escamilla From high‑speed research flights to high‑altitude [...]