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Blue Ghost Conducts First Burn, Science Operations, Captures Eclipse

By |2025-01-21T15:52:00-05:00January 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Firefly’s Blue Ghost continues its journey to the Moon carrying 10 NASA science and technology instruments. Four days into the mission, the lunar lander completed its first main engine burn. This milestone is the first of several maneuvers that will position the lander in a trajectory towards the Moon. After 25 days orbiting Earth, Blue [...]

NASA Marshall Invites Media to Local Day of Remembrance Event

By |2025-01-21T15:28:00-05:00January 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Marshall will hold a candle-lighting ceremony and wreath placement at 9:30 a.m. CST. The ceremony will include remarks from Larry Leopard, associate director, and Bill Hill, director of Marshall’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance. NASA/ Krisdon Manecke NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in [...]

60 Years Ago: Uncrewed Gemini 2 Paves the Way for the First Crewed Mission

By |2025-01-21T13:52:00-05:00January 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On Jan. 19, 1965, Gemini 2 successfully completed the second of two uncrewed test flights of the spacecraft and its Titan II booster, clearing the way for the first crewed mission. The 18-minute suborbital mission achieved the primary goals of flight qualifying the Gemini spacecraft, especially its heat shield during a stressful reentry. Recovery forces [...]

Astronauts Set to Swab the Exterior of Station for Microbial Life

By |2025-01-21T13:00:00-05:00January 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Victor Glover tests collection methods for ISS External Microorganisms in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center.NASA Astronauts are scheduled to venture outside the International Space Station to collect microbiological samples during crew spacewalks for the ISS External Microorganisms experiment. This investigation focuses on sampling at sites near life support system vents [...]

How New NASA, India Earth Satellite NISAR Will See Earth

By |2025-01-21T12:22:00-05:00January 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used radar data taken by ESA’s Sentinel-1A satellite before and after the 2015 eruption of the Calbuco volcano in Chile to create this inter-ferogram showing land deformation. The color bands west of the volcano indicate land sinking. NISAR will produce similar images.ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech A SAR image — like ones NISAR will [...]

NASA Welcomes Finland as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

By |2025-01-21T11:29:00-05:00January 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA With Finland’s signing of the Artemis Accords on Tuesday, NASA celebrates the 53rd nation committing to the safe and responsible exploration of space that benefits humanity. The signing ceremony took place on the margins of the Aalto University’s Winter Satellite Workshop 2025 in Espoo, Finland. “Today, Finland is joining a community of nations [...]

Suni Williams Conducts Spacewalk

By |2025-01-21T11:25:00-05:00January 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA NASA astronaut Suni Williams is seen outside the International Space Station during the Jan. 16, 2025, spacewalk where she and fellow NASA astronaut Nick Hague replaced a rate gyro assembly that helps maintain the orientation of the orbital outpost. It was the fourth spacewalk for Hague and the eighth for Williams. Williams and Hague [...]

Station Science Top News: Jan. 17, 2025

By |2025-01-21T11:15:00-05:00January 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Insights into metal alloy solidification Researchers report details of phase and structure in the solidification of metal alloys on the International Space Station, including formation of microstructures. Because these microstructures determine a material’s mechanical properties, this work could support improvements in techniques for producing coatings and additive manufacturing or 3D printing processes. METCOMP, an ESA [...]

Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Independent Assessment

By |2025-01-17T15:26:00-05:00January 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) AS16-116-18653 (23 April 1972) — Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., Apollo 16 lunar module pilot, stands at a big rock adjacent (south) to the huge “House Rock” (barely out of view at right edge). Note shadow at extreme right center where the two moon-exploring [...]

NASA Scientists, Engineers Receive Presidential Early Career Awards 

By |2025-01-17T15:25:00-05:00January 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team President Biden has named 19 researchers who contribute to NASA’s mission as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients are among [...]

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