Senegal signed the Artemis Accords July 24, 2025, during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. In 2020, during the first Trump Administration, the United States, led by NASA and the State Department, joined with seven other founding nations to establish the Artemis Accords, responding to the growing interest in lunar [...]
An aurora streams across Earth’s horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited off the coast of southeast Australia. At bottom, a portion of the station’s U.S. segment is illuminated including the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the Harmony module’s forward port.NASA The seven-member Expedition 73 crew is gearing up [...]
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An aircraft body modeled after an air taxi with weighted test dummies inside is shown after a drop test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The test was completed June 26 at Langley’s Landing and Impact Research Facility. The aircraft was dropped from a [...]
Monitors show a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft and members of the closeout crew during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov onboard, Monday, July [...]
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For Melissa John, protecting the environment is her way of contributing to space exploration while preserving the Earth we call home. As the sustainability program lead at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, John manages efforts to reduce waste, prevent pollution, and promote eco-conscious practices. Over the past 13 years, she [...]
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket rolls to the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, July 27, 2025, for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon crew spacecraft atop, for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission rolled out to [...]
