Photo of the Day Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? You're not alone. Details of what causes lightning are still being researched, but it is known that inside some clouds, internal updrafts cause collisions between ice and snow that slowly separate charges between cloud tops and bottoms. The rapid electrical discharges [...]
The NASA Gulfstream V carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov is seen as it arrives at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ahead of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission, Saturday, July 26, 2025, in Florida.NASA NASA astronauts Zena [...]
The official portrait of the four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. From left, are Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Oleg Platonov; NASA astronaut and Pilot Mike Fincke; JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut and Mission Specialist Kimiya Yui; and NASA astronaut and Commander Zena Cardman.NASA/Robert Markowitz NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 [...]
The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station train inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in Hawthorne, California. From left to right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui.SpaceX After meeting for several hours today, NASA, SpaceX, and international partner teams [...]
As part of their spotlight month, the Technical Career Path Affinity Group shares their recent news, events, and how to get involved. Source
NASA/Jonny Kim NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. A truly global endeavor, the International Space Station has been visited by more than 280 people from 23 countries and a variety of international and commercial spacecraft. The unique microgravity laboratory has hosted more than 4,000 experiments [...]
SWE’s Hill Day reminds everyone that progress is still possible when powered by people passionate about equity, education, and engineering. Source
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members (from left) Kirill Peskov from Roscosmos, Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain from NASA, and Takuya Onishi from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) talk to reporters on Earth during a pre-departure news conference.NASA The Expedition 73 crew is turning its attention to the arrival of a new crew next week then getting [...]
Photo of the Day Meteors from the Kappa Cygnid meteor shower are captured in this time-lapse composite skyscape. The minor meteor shower, with a radiant not far from its eponymous star Kappa Cygni, peaks in mid-August, almost at the same time as the much better-known and better-observed Perseid meteor shower. But, seen to have [...]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Dragon spacecraft, stands in a vertical position at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.SpaceX Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This [...]
