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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 to Discuss Station Mission, Upcoming Return

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission pictured aboard the International Space Station. From left to right: JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov.Credit: NASA Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 during a news conference beginning at 10:40 a.m. [...]

By |2025-07-21T15:23:00-04:00July 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup Set to Depart

Portrait of Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Credit: NASA On Monday, NASA announced Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is set to leave the agency on Friday, Aug. 1. As center director of Goddard, a role she has held since April [...]

By |2025-07-21T14:04:00-04:00July 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno during the spacecraft’s 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. 30, 2023. A technique called annealing was used to help repair radiation damage to [...]

By |2025-07-21T13:54:00-04:00July 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Cat’s Paw Nebula from Webb Space Telescope

Photo of the Day Nebulas are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble. Still, no known cat could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula visible toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). At 5,700 light years distant, Cat's Paw is an emission nebula [...]

By |2025-07-21T13:44:26-04:00July 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

GLOBE-Trotting Science Lands in Chesapeake with NASA eClips

Explore This Section Science Earth Science GLOBE-Trotting Science Lands… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   2 min read GLOBE-Trotting Science Lands in Chesapeake with NASA eClips On June 16-17, 2025, 50 students at Camp Young in Chesapeake, Virginia traded their usual summer routines for [...]

By |2025-07-21T13:36:00-04:00July 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Bone and Robotics Research Informing Future Missions as Crew Nears Departure

City lights sparkle across the southern United States in this photograph from the International Space Station is it orbited into a sunrise 260 miles above Florida. In the right foreground, is a set of the orbital outpost’s main solar arrays augmented by a smaller set of roll out solar arrays.NASA The Expedition 73 crew kicked [...]

By |2025-07-21T13:13:00-04:00July 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Day Earth Smiled

On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn’s shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its inner rings, and, in the background, our home planet, Earth.NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI On July 19, 2013, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft had a rare opportunity to image Saturn and, far [...]

By |2025-07-21T12:22:00-04:00July 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Things to Know About Powerful New U.S.-India Satellite, NISAR

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Information provided by the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission (NISAR) will help to protect and inform communities around the world. The data will aid in managing agricultural fields, monitoring volcanoes, and tracking land-based ice including glaciers.NASA/JPL-Caltech Data from NISAR will map changes to Earth’s [...]

By |2025-07-21T11:33:00-04:00July 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Bring NASA Science into Your Library!

2 min read Bring NASA Science into Your Library! Calling all librarians! NASA sponsors dozens of research projects that need help from you and the people in your community. These projects invite everyone who’s interested to collaborate with scientists, investigating mysteries from how star systems form to how our planet sustains life. You can [...]

By |2025-07-21T09:30:00-04:00July 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Catherine Staggs: Advancing Artemis Through Contracting Expertise

A lifelong baseball fan, Catherine Staggs set out with her family to visit all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums across the United States. That love of the game eventually led them to settle in Houston about eight years ago – a choice that helped lead Staggs to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where she is a [...]

By |2025-07-21T05:14:00-04:00July 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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