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NASA’s Europa Clipper Uses Mars to Go the Distance

By |2025-02-25T11:44:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Europa Clipper as it flies by Mars, using the planet’s gravitational force to alter the spacecraft’s path on its way to the Jupiter system. NASA/JPL-Caltech The orbiter bound for Jupiter’s moon Europa will investigate whether the moon is habitable, [...]

Is There Potential for Life on Europa? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 52

By |2025-02-25T10:11:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) That’s a great question. And it’s a question that NASA will seek to answer with the Europa Clipper spacecraft. Europa is a moon of Jupiter. It’s about the same size as Earth’s Moon, but its surface looks very different. The surface of Europa is [...]

Science in Orbit: Results Published on Space Station Research in 2024

By |2025-02-25T10:00:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read Science in Orbit: Results Published on Space Station Research in 2024 NASA and its international partners have hosted research experiments and fostered collaboration aboard the International Space Station for over 25 years. More than 4,000 investigations have been conducted, resulting in over 4,400 research publications with 361 in 2024 alone. Space [...]

NASA: New Study on Why Mars is Red Supports Potentially Habitable Past

By |2025-02-25T05:15:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A new international study partially funded by NASA on how Mars got its iconic red color adds to evidence that Mars had a cool but wet and potentially habitable climate in its ancient past. Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into [...]

Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology

By |2025-02-24T18:26:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology A view of the Moon from Earth, zooming up to IM-2's landing site at Mons Mouton, which is visible in amateur telescopes. Credits: NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio NASA is sending revolutionary technologies to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ second lunar delivery as part of the [...]

NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 91 Launch, Space Station Docking

By |2025-02-24T17:55:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress spacecraft pictured on Aug. 13, 2024, from the International Space Station.Credit: NASA NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft delivering approximately three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 91 spacecraft is scheduled to [...]

Venus Blows Off Some Steam

By |2025-02-24T17:19:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Tall plumes of white vapor rise from the rocky Venusian surface in this April 19, 1977, artist’s concept.NASA/Rick Guidice Tall plumes of white vapor rise from the rocky Venusian surface in this April 19, 1977, artist’s concept. A little over a year later, NASA’s Pioneer Venus 1 would launch as the first of a two-spacecraft [...]

Ames’ Own: Wayne R. Johnson Elected to the 2025 National Academy of Engineering Class

By |2025-02-24T15:09:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Wayne Johnson, who in 2012 earned the highest rank of Fellow at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, is known worldwide as an expert in rotary wing technology. He was among those who provided help in testing Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars helicopter.NASA / Eric James NASA Ames’ Wayne Johnson Elected to 2025 Class of New Members [...]

NASA Invites Media to Observe FireSense Prescribed Burn at Kennedy

By |2025-02-24T15:00:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Drone pilot Brayden Chamberlain flashes a “good to go” signal to the command tent, indicating that the NASA Alta X quadcopter is prepped for takeoff during a FireSense uncrewed aerial system (UAS) Technology Demonstration test in 2023 in Missoula, Montana. The instruments on board collected data on wind speed and direction, humidity, temperature, and pressure.NASA/Milan [...]

NASA Names Acting Associate Administrator, More Leadership Changes

By |2025-02-24T14:34:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA logo. (Credit: NASA) NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro announced Monday Vanessa Wyche will serve as the acting associate administrator for the agency at NASA Headquarters in Washington, effective immediately. Wyche, who had been the director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, is detailed as Petro’s senior advisor leading the agency’s center directors and [...]

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