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Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars

By |2025-07-11T15:41:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Mariner 4 captured the first-ever close-up image of Mars on July 14, 1965. While waiting for the data to be processed into the image (inset at right), team members hand-colored strips of paper that the data was printed on, assigning hues to value [...]

NASA Astronaut Shannon Walker Retires

By |2025-07-11T15:31:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Shannon Walker on the International Space Station NASA astronaut Shannon Walker retired July 10, concluding a career that spanned 38 years, including 30 years of federal service and more than 21 years as an astronaut. During two spaceflights, she spent 330 days in orbit, contributing to hundreds of scientific experiments and technology demonstrations [...]

Putting the X-59 to the Test

By |2025-07-11T13:45:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind tunnel located in Chofu, Japan, to assess the noise audible underneath the aircraft. The model can be seen in the wind tunnel in this image released on [...]

NASA to Provide Coverage of Axiom Mission 4 Departure from Station

By |2025-07-11T11:47:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Axiom Mission 4 and Expedition 73 crews join together for a group portrait inside the International Space Station’s Harmony module. In the front row (from left) are Ax-4 crewmates Tibor Kapu, Peggy Whitson, Shubhanshu Shukla, and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski with Expedition 73 crewmates Anne McClain and Takuya Onishi. In the rear are, Expedition 73 crewmates [...]

X-59 Model Tested in Japanese Supersonic Wind Tunnel

By |2025-07-11T10:00:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Here you see the X-59 scaled model inside the JAXA supersonic wind tunnel during critical tests related to sound predictions.JAXA Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 to Support Health Studies for Deep Space Travel

By |2025-07-11T10:00:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission sit inside a Dragon training spacecraft at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. Pictured from left: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui (Credit: SpaceX). NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission is set to launch a four-person crew to [...]

Hubble Snaps Galaxy Cluster’s Portrait

By |2025-07-11T07:00:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4593-4594: Three Layers and a Lot of Structure at Volcán Peña Blanca

By |2025-07-10T22:12:00-04:00July 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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NASA Selects Instruments for Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle

By |2025-07-10T16:47:00-04:00July 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

An artist’s concept design of NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle.Credit: NASA NASA has selected three instruments to travel to the Moon, with two planned for integration onto an LTV (Lunar Terrain Vehicle) and one for a future orbital opportunity. The LTV is part of NASA’s efforts to explore the lunar surface as part of the Artemis [...]

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Inspects Cat’s Paw

By |2025-07-10T16:09:00-04:00July 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

To celebrate its third year of revealing stunning scenes of the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has “clawed” back the thick, dusty layers of a section within the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team released this image of the Cat’s Paw Nebula [...]

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