NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Nick Hague watches as Robert Schmidle Pitts Aerobatics perform, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Hague spent 171 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72. While aboard the orbital laboratory, Hague and fellow NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore [...]
The Artemis II crew members named their Orion spacecraft Integrity during a news conference Sept. 24. The name Integrity embodies the foundation of trust, respect, candor, and humility across the crew and the many engineers, technicians, scientists, planners, and dreamers required for mission success. The name is also a nod to the extensive integrated effort [...]
Un cohete Falcon 9 de SpaceX que transporta las misiones Sonda de Cartografía y Aceleración Interestelar (IMAP, por su acrónimo en inglés) y el Observatorio Carruthers de la Geocorona, ambos de la NASA, y la nave espacial de Seguimiento de la Meteorología Espacial en el Punto de Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1, por sus siglas en inglés) [...]
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) missions launches from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.Credit: NASA Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. NASA and the [...]
NASA/James Blair NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidate class greets the crowd in this Sept. 22, 2025, image. The group was introduced Monday following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000 applicants from across the United States. The class now will complete nearly two years of training before becoming eligible for flight assignments supporting future science [...]
Background The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) has reviewed flight, ground test, and published data on ultraviolet-induced degradation of silicone based thermal control coatings. Analysis has shown, for at least one silicone coating, that bake-out plays an important role in ultraviolet (UV) degradation, indicating that UV interaction with paint volatiles, and not the structural [...]
Lettuce Find Healthy Space Food! Citizen Scientists Study Space Salads Volunteer members of the OSDR-Analysis Working Groups examined the nutritional quality of crops grown in Low Earth Orbit and the physiological effects of space-induced nutrient deficiencies on astronauts. You can join the team here! Credit: npj Microgravity/Barbero et al., 2025 Missions to the Moon and [...]
IC 348 is a star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of the star-forming region IC 348. In this image released on July 23, 2025, X-rays from Chandra are red, [...]
La NASA anunció su promoción de candidatos a astronautas de 2025 el 22 de septiembre de 2025. Los diez candidatos, que aparecen aquí en el Centro Espacial Johnson de la NASA en Houston, son: el suboficial mayor de 3.ª clase del Ejército de los Estados Unidos Ben Bailey, el mayor de la Fuerza Aérea de [...]
