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Ax-4 Meets Expedition 73 and Begins Space Research

The four Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) and seven Expedition 73 crew members join each other in the International Space Station’s Harmony module for a group portrait.NASA+ Eleven residents are living and working aboard the International Space Station following the docking of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) at 6:31 a.m. EDT on Thursday. The seven Expedition 73 [...]

By |2025-06-27T14:35:00-04:00June 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Astronaut Joe Engle Flies X-15

In 1963, Captain Engle was assigned as one of two Air Force test pilots to fly the X-15 Research Rocket aircraft. In 1965, he flew the X-15 to an altitude of 280,600 feet, and became the youngest pilot ever to qualify as an astronaut. Three of his sixteen flights in the X-15 exceeded the 50-mile [...]

By |2025-06-27T13:49:00-04:00June 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Sophia Roberts: Showcasing the Cosmos

Astrophysics Science Video Producer – Goddard Space Flight Center Growing up in Detroit with a camera in her hand, Sophia Roberts — now an award-winning astrophysics science video producer—never imagined that one day her path would wind through clean rooms, vacuum chambers, and even a beryllium mine. But framing the final frontier sometimes requires traveling [...]

By |2025-06-27T12:01:00-04:00June 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center

2 min read Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy UGC 11397. ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC [...]

By |2025-06-27T09:17:00-04:00June 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4580-4581: Something in the Air…

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 2 min [...]

By |2025-06-26T16:30:00-04:00June 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

I Am Artemis: Patrick Junen

NASA For some people, a passion for space is something that might develop over time, but for Patrick Junen, the desire was there from the beginning. With a father and grandfather who both worked for NASA, space exploration is not just a dream; it remains a family legacy. Now, as the stage assembly and structures [...]

By |2025-06-26T15:15:00-04:00June 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Sparkling Andromeda

X-ray: NASA/CXO/UMass/Z. Li & Q.D. Wang, ESA/XMM-Newton; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE, Spitzer, NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (U. Az), ESA/Herschel, ESA/Planck, NASA/IRAS, NASA/COBE; Radio: NSF/GBT/WSRT/IRAM/C. Clark (STScI); Ultraviolet: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GALEX; Optical: Andromeda, Unexpected © Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, Yann Sainty & J. Sahner, T. Kottary. Composite image processing: L. Frattare, K. Arcand, J.Major The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 [...]

By |2025-06-26T14:29:00-04:00June 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

By Air and by Sea: Validating NASA’s PACE Ocean Color Instrument

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Ames research scientist Kristina Pistone monitors instrument data while onboard the Twin Otter aircraft, flying over Monterey Bay during the October 2024 deployment of the AirSHARP campaign. NASA/Samuel Leblanc In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, [...]

By |2025-06-26T12:23:00-04:00June 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Mars Orbiter Learns New Moves After Nearly 20 Years in Space

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An antenna sticks out like whiskers from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in this artist’s concept of the spacecraft, which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2006. This antenna is part of SHARAD, a radar that peers below the Martian surface.NASA/JPL-Caltech The Mars Reconnaissance [...]

By |2025-06-26T12:12:00-04:00June 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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