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NASA Invites Media to Discuss PUNCH Mission to Study Solar Wind

By |2025-01-29T16:00:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Caption: Illustration of the four PUNCH spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 4, to share information about the agency’s upcoming PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is targeted to launch [...]

NASA, Partners to Welcome Fourth Axiom Space Mission to Space Station

By |2025-01-29T15:09:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Spring 2025. From left to right: Tibor Kapu of Hungary, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, and ESA (European [...]

6 NASA Experiments on Materials, Benefitting Space and Earth

By |2025-01-29T13:42:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A Lysozyme crystal grown in microgravity, viewed under a microscope using X-ray crystallography. NASA Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This research could lead to next-generation technology that both enables deep-space exploration and benefits humanity.   Here are six studies scientists have conducted on [...]

Geyser Season on Mars

By |2025-01-29T12:59:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona This Oct. 29, 2018, image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures geysers of gas and dust that occur in springtime in the South Polar region of Mars. As the Sun rises higher in the sky, the thick coating of carbon dioxide ice that accumulated over the winter begins [...]

Muestra de la NASA del asteroide Bennu revela un ‘caldo’ con los ingredientes de la vida

By |2025-01-29T11:33:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

En este fotograma de video, Jason Dworkin sostiene un vial que contiene parte de la muestra del asteroide Bennu que la misión Orígenes, Interpretación Espectral, Identificación de Recursos y Seguridad – Explorador de Regolito (OSIRIS-REx, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA trajo a la Tierra en 2023. Dworkin es el científico del proyecto [...]

NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients

By |2025-01-29T11:19:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission in 2023. Dworkin is the mission’s project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Credit: NASA/James Tralie [...]

Sols 4437-4438: Coordinating our Dance Moves

By |2025-01-29T04:26:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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How to Fly NASA’s Orion Spacecraft

By |2025-01-28T14:37:00-05:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

During the Artemis II mission to the Moon, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover will take control and manually fly Orion for the first time, evaluating the handling qualities of the spacecraft during a key test called the proximity operations demonstration. This is how to fly Orion. On NASA’s Artemis II test flight, [...]

Wolf Moon in Washington

By |2025-01-28T14:15:00-05:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Bill Ingalls A NASA photographer captured the full “wolf” moon rising over the Lincoln Memorial and Memorial Bridge on Jan. 13, 2025. The Maine Farmers’ Almanac began publishing Native American names for full moons in the 1930s. Over time, these names have become widely known and used. According to this almanac, the full moon in [...]

NASA Juno Mission Spots Most Powerful Volcanic Activity on Io to Date

By |2025-01-28T11:22:00-05:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A massive hotspot — larger the Earth’s Lake Superior — can be seen just to the right of Io’s south pole in this annotated image taken by the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA’s Juno on Dec. 27, 2024, during the spacecraft’s flyby of the [...]

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