Image credit: HeroX NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces [...]
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above Palmdale and Edwards, California, during its first flight Oct. 28, 2025, accompanied by a NASA F/A-18 research aircraft serving as chase.NASA/Jim Ross As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over the California high [...]
When NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket launches the agency’s Artemis II mission to the Moon, four CubeSats, or small satellites, will be hitching a ride inside the rocket’s Orion stage adapter (OSA). All four Artemis II CubeSats are provided by countries that are signatories of the Artemis Accords. Payload deployment, which begins approximately [...]
NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft rolled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026 in preparation for the Artemis II mission.Credit: NASA/Brandon Hancock One year into President Donald J. Trump’s second term, NASA is delivering measurable progress across human spaceflight, science, [...]
Engineer Mary Seelam shares practical guidance on seeking and offering mentorship as a woman in STEM. Source
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Annual Report of NESC Technical Activities On behalf of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC), I am pleased to provide you with the 2025 NESC Technical Update. This annual report summarizes the technical work, engineering advancements, and knowledge capture efforts we made in FY25. With support provided by members of our NASA community from [...]
The sun sets as NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 carrying the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher, rolls toward Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 01/17/2026. The Artemis II test flight will take Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist [...]
The sun sets as NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 carrying the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher, rolls toward Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 01/17/2026. The Artemis II test flight will take Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist [...]
The sun sets as NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 carrying the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher, rolls toward Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 01/17/2026. The Artemis II test flight will take Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist [...]
