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Artemis II Crew Train for Night Launch Scenarios at Kennedy Space Center

By |2025-08-14T12:05:00-04:00August 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

From top left to right, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot; Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, suit up and walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space [...]

NASA’s Apollo Samples, LRO Help Scientists Predict Moonquakes

By |2025-08-14T12:02:00-04:00August 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read NASA’s Apollo Samples, LRO Help Scientists Predict Moonquakes This mosaic of the Taurus-Littrow valley was made using images from the Narrow Angle Cameras onboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The orbiter has been circling and studying the Moon since 2009. The ancient-lava-filled valley is cut by the Lee-Lincoln thrust fault, visible as [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Astronauts to Discuss Science Mission

By |2025-08-14T11:53:00-04:00August 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, left, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the company’s recovery ship shortly after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, on Aug. 9, 2025.Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber After spending [...]

Say Cheese!

By |2025-08-14T10:40:00-04:00August 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Mike Fincke Eleven International Space Station crew members gather inside the space station’s Unity module for a portrait on Aug. 3, 2025. In the front row, from left are, Kimiya Yui of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Zena Cardman of NASA, Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos, and Mike Fincke of NASA. In the second row are, [...]

NASA Tests Research Aircraft to Improve Air Taxi Flight Controls

By |2025-08-14T06:00:00-04:00August 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Research Aircraft for electric Vertical takeoff and landing Enabling techNologies Subscale Wind Tunnel and Flight Test undergoes a free flight test on the City Environment Range Testing for Autonomous Integrated Navigation range at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia on April 22, [...]

U.S. Transportation Secretary & Acting NASA Administrator Sean P. Duffy Joins President Trump Executive Order Signing to Boost U.S. Space Competitiveness

By |2025-08-13T19:07:00-04:00August 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA U.S. Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy joined President Donald J. Trump at the White House Wednesday for the historic signing of the Executive Order (EO), “Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry.” “People think the Department of Transportation (DOT) is just planes, trains, and automobiles – but we have a [...]

The NASA RASC-AL 2026 Competition

By |2025-08-13T16:01:00-04:00August 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

National Institute of Aerospace NASA is calling on the next generation of collegiate innovators to imagine bold new concepts pushing the boundaries of human exploration on the Moon, Mars, and beyond through the 2026 NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition. The RASC-AL challenge fuels innovation for aerospace systems concepts, analogs, and [...]

NASA Seeks Moon and Mars Innovations Through University Challenge

By |2025-08-13T16:00:00-04:00August 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

National Institute of Aerospace NASA is calling on the next generation of collegiate innovators to imagine bold new concepts l pushing the boundaries of human exploration on the Moon, Mars, and beyond through the agency’s 2026 NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition.   The RASC-AL challenge fuels innovation for aerospace systems [...]

Compton J. Tucker Retires from NASA and is Named NAS Fellow

By |2025-08-13T15:19:00-04:00August 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Dr. Compton J. Tucker – a senior researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) – joins 149 newly elected members to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) – see Photo. NAS is one of the highest honors in American science. Compton gave a virtual presentation at GSFC on July 21, 2025, in which he [...]

Alligator Goes for a Swim

By |2025-08-13T11:24:00-04:00August 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Bill White An alligator moves through a brackish waterway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this May 8, 2017, photo. The center shares space with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. More than 330 native and migratory bird species, 25 mammals, 117 fishes and 65 amphibians and reptiles call NASA Kennedy and the [...]

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