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NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-12 Mission to Space Station

By |2026-01-23T17:46:00-05:00January 23rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew, from left to right, is NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.Credit: SpaceX NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Friday, Jan. 30, from [...]

NASA Awards Global Modeling, Assimilation Support Contract

By |2026-01-23T16:47:00-05:00January 23rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected ADNET Systems, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, to provide global modeling and data assimilation support at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Global Modeling and Assimilation Support contract is a single-award, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ordering value of approximately $84 million with a five-year period [...]

AMS 2025 Hyperwall Schedule

By |2026-01-23T10:36:00-05:00January 23rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read AMS 2025 Hyperwall Schedule 106th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting, January 25 – 29, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #323) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, JANUARY 26 6:05 – 6:20 PM Expanding Discovery from Earth Science Missions in Space  Highlights of NASA [...]

Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey

By |2026-01-23T10:00:00-05:00January 23rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this zone, revealing stars, planets, and unique objects that resist definition. Based on the input of astronomers from across the [...]

NASA Conducts Hot Fire of RS-25 Engine

By |2026-01-23T09:34:00-05:00January 23rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA conducts a hot fire of RS-25 engine No. 2063 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on Jan. 22, 2026.NASA/Chris Russell NASA conducts a hot fire of RS-25 engine No. 2063 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay [...]

TESS Status Updates

By |2026-01-23T09:02:00-05:00January 23rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read TESS Status Updates Jan. 23, 2026 NASA’s TESS Returns to Science Observations NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) entered safe mode Jan. 15 and returned to normal science operations Jan. 18.  The operations team determined the issue arose when TESS slewed to point at a target, but its solar panels did not [...]

NASA’s Day of Remembrance 2026

By |2026-01-22T17:38:00-05:00January 22nd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Keegan Barber The Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial is seen during a wreath laying ceremony that was part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Wreaths were laid in memory of those men and women who lost their lives in the quest for space exploration. Each January, [...]

Approval to Exceed GSA Lodging for LPSC 2026

By |2026-01-22T17:37:00-05:00January 22nd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This letter from SARA is to issue a waiver for NASA grantees attending LPSC2026, allowing them to be reimbursed out of their grants for their actual lodging, although it’s expected to be above the approved GSA amount. This waiver does not supersede the travel policy of your institution if it is more restrictive. Note: I have [...]

NASA AI Model That Found 370 Exoplanets Now Digs Into TESS Data

By |2026-01-22T09:00:00-05:00January 22nd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read NASA AI Model That Found 370 Exoplanets Now Digs Into TESS Data This artist’s impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open-source software package developed by NASA, uses artificial intelligence to help find new transiting exoplanets in data collected by NASA’s missions. NASA, [...]

NASA’s Artemis II Mission to Fly Legacy Keepsakes with Astronaut Crew

By |2026-01-21T17:48:00-05:00January 21st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This image shows NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA’s massive crawler-transporter, upgraded for the Artemis program, carries the powerful SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft on the Mobile Launcher from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space [...]

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