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NASA, SpaceX Adjust Crew-12 Launch Date Due to Weather

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than 5:38 a.m. EST, Thursday, Feb. 12, for launch of the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Mission teams completed a weather review on Monday and elected to waive off a Wednesday, Feb. 11, launch opportunity due to forecast weather conditions along the flight path of the Dragon spacecraft. Weather will continue to be [...]

By |2026-02-09T09:50:00-05:00February 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

NASA Conducts Repairs, Analysis Ahead of Next Artemis II Fueling Test

The full Moon rises behind NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as seen from Titusville, Fla. NASA/John Kraus Since concluding a wet dress rehearsal Feb. 3 ahead of Artemis II, technicians have replaced two seals [...]

By |2026-02-08T20:06:00-05:00February 8th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun

Photo of the Day An unusually active sunspot region is now crossing the Sun. The region, labelled AR 4366, is much larger than the Earth and has produced several powerful solar flares over the past ten days. In the featured image, the region is marked by large and dark sunspots toward the upper right [...]

By |2026-02-08T15:44:24-05:00February 8th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Answer Questions from Quarantine

Crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, from left to right, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, participate in a news conference from Astronaut Crew Quarters inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida [...]

By |2026-02-08T12:01:00-05:00February 8th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 ‘Go’ For Launch

The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station pose together for a crew portrait in their pressure suits at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, Pilot and Commander respectively, and ESA (European Space Agency) [...]

By |2026-02-06T20:51:00-05:00February 6th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Flies to NASA Kennedy

The four crew members representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station pose for a portrait at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, Crew-12 Pilot and Commander respectively, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and [...]

By |2026-02-06T18:56:00-05:00February 6th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

Artemis II AVATAR Processing Cutdown v2

The Mission Verification Test (MVT) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) AVATAR (A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response) payload, marking a critical milestone ahead of the Artemis II launch. This test validated system performance as designed to confirm mission readiness.

By |2026-02-06T17:44:16-05:00February 6th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

NASA Sets Coverage for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-12 Launch, Docking

The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station pose together for a crew portrait inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, Pilot and Commander respectively, and ESA (European Space [...]

By |2026-02-06T16:11:00-05:00February 6th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Strong Solar Flare

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash toward the upper middle — on Feb. 4, 2026. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and which is colorized in blue and red.NASA/SDO This Feb. 4, 2026, [...]

By |2026-02-06T15:05:00-05:00February 6th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boreal Forests Are Shifting North

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By |2026-02-06T14:58:00-05:00February 6th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |
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