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NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover to Take Bite Out of ‘Krokodillen’

By |2025-05-19T15:04:00-04:00May 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) One of the navigation cameras on NASA’s Perseverance captured the rover’s tracks coming from an area called “Witch Hazel Hill,” on May 13, 2025, the 1,503rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists expect the new area of interest on the lower [...]

Webb Finds Icy Disk

By |2025-05-19T12:23:00-04:00May 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) This artist’s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in systems around stars. By using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers confirmed [...]

A Defining Era: NASA Stennis and Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing

By |2025-05-19T09:51:00-04:00May 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Min Read A Defining Era: NASA Stennis and Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing The numbers are notable – 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 3,244 individual tests, more than 820,000 seconds (totaling more than nine days) of cumulative hot fire. The [...]

NASA’s LRO Views Japan’s RESILENCE Lunar Lander Landing Area

By |2025-05-16T14:17:00-04:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged the landing area of the ispace SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2 RESILIENCE lunar lander which is slated to land on the surface of the Moon no earlier than June 5, 2025 (UTC). This view of the [...]

Nancy Grace Roman’s 100th Birthday

By |2025-05-16T13:35:00-04:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy and namesake of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, briefs astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin on celestial objects in 1965 in Washington, D.C. Nancy Grace Roman passed away on December 25, 2018, in Germantown, Maryland at the age of 93. May 16, 2025, would have been her [...]

NASA, International Astronauts Address Students from New York, Ohio

By |2025-05-16T13:20:00-04:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Astronaut Anne McClain is pictured on May 1, 2025, near one of the International Space Station’s main solar arrays.Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi will answer prerecorded questions submitted by middle and high school students from New York and Ohio. Both groups will hear from the [...]

Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds

By |2025-05-16T07:00:00-04:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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NASA X-59’s Latest Testing Milestone: Simulating Flight from the Ground

By |2025-05-16T06:00:00-04:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its “aluminum bird” systems testing at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The test verified how the aircraft’s hardware and software work together, responding to pilot inputs and handling injected system failures. Lockheed [...]

Top Prize Awarded in Lunar Autonomy Challenge to Virtually Map Moon’s Surface

By |2025-05-15T17:37:00-04:00May 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S. college and university student teams to virtually map and explore using a digital twin of NASA’s In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx).  The winning team successfully demonstrated the design and functionality of their autonomous agent, or software that performs [...]

NASA Welcomes Norway as 55th Nation to Sign Artemis Accords

By |2025-05-15T16:01:00-04:00May 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA Following an international signing ceremony Thursday, NASA congratulated Norway on becoming the latest country to join the Artemis Accords, committing to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of space. “We’re grateful for the strong and meaningful collaboration we’ve already had with the Norwegian Space Agency,” said acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro. “Now, by [...]

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