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Linking Satellite Data and Community Knowledge to Advance Alaskan Snow Science

By |2025-07-14T12:55:00-04:00July 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Goddard Space Flight Center Linking Satellite Data and… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   4 min read Linking Satellite Data and Community Knowledge to Advance Alaskan Snow Science Seasonal snow plays a significant role in global water and energy cycles, [...]

10 Years Ago: NASA’s New Horizons Captures Pluto’s Heart

By |2025-07-14T12:00:00-04:00July 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker This image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This natural-color image results from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons’ color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The processing creates images that would approximate [...]

Chief Training Officer Teresa Sindelar Touches the Future of Human Spaceflight

By |2025-07-14T05:02:00-04:00July 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Teresa Sindelar always knew she wanted to be a part of human spaceflight, but she was unsure how to make that dream a reality until a chance encounter with former NASA astronaut Tom Stafford when she was 11 years old. The pair met in a local jewelry shop near Sindelar’s Nebraska home, where Gen. Stafford [...]

Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars

By |2025-07-11T15:41:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Mariner 4 captured the first-ever close-up image of Mars on July 14, 1965. While waiting for the data to be processed into the image (inset at right), team members hand-colored strips of paper that the data was printed on, assigning hues to value [...]

NASA Astronaut Shannon Walker Retires

By |2025-07-11T15:31:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Shannon Walker on the International Space Station NASA astronaut Shannon Walker retired July 10, concluding a career that spanned 38 years, including 30 years of federal service and more than 21 years as an astronaut. During two spaceflights, she spent 330 days in orbit, contributing to hundreds of scientific experiments and technology demonstrations [...]

Putting the X-59 to the Test

By |2025-07-11T13:45:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind tunnel located in Chofu, Japan, to assess the noise audible underneath the aircraft. The model can be seen in the wind tunnel in this image released on [...]

NASA to Provide Coverage of Axiom Mission 4 Departure from Station

By |2025-07-11T11:47:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Axiom Mission 4 and Expedition 73 crews join together for a group portrait inside the International Space Station’s Harmony module. In the front row (from left) are Ax-4 crewmates Tibor Kapu, Peggy Whitson, Shubhanshu Shukla, and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski with Expedition 73 crewmates Anne McClain and Takuya Onishi. In the rear are, Expedition 73 crewmates [...]

X-59 Model Tested in Japanese Supersonic Wind Tunnel

By |2025-07-11T10:00:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Here you see the X-59 scaled model inside the JAXA supersonic wind tunnel during critical tests related to sound predictions.JAXA Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 to Support Health Studies for Deep Space Travel

By |2025-07-11T10:00:00-04:00July 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission sit inside a Dragon training spacecraft at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. Pictured from left: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui (Credit: SpaceX). NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission is set to launch a four-person crew to [...]

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