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NASA Open Data Turns Science Into Art

By |2025-02-26T12:32:00-05:00February 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read NASA Open Data Turns Science Into Art Guests enjoy Beyond the Light, a digital art experience featuring open NASA data, at ARTECHOUSE in Washington, D.C. on September 19, 2023. NASA/Wade Sisler An art display powered by NASA science data topped the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, CA throughout December 2024. Nightly [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Discuss Space Station Mission, Upcoming Return

By |2025-02-26T11:44:00-05:00February 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission, including NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, pose for a photo aboard the International Space StationNASA Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts during a news conference beginning at 11:55 a.m. EST, Tuesday, March [...]

NASA Stennis Flashback: Learning About Rocket Engine Smoke for Safe Space Travel

By |2025-02-26T10:00:00-05:00February 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Min Read NASA Stennis Flashback: Learning About Rocket Engine Smoke for Safe Space Travel An image shows engineers at an early version of the test stand at the Diagnostic Testbed Facility. From 1988 to the mid-1990s, NASA Stennis engineers operated the facility to conduct rocket engine plume exhaust diagnostics and learn more about [...]

NASA Names Stephen Koerner as Acting Director of Johnson Space Center

By |2025-02-25T18:13:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Acting Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Steve Koerner. Credit: NASA/Norah Moran NASA has selected Stephen Koerner as acting director of Johnson Space Center. Koerner previously served as Johnson’s deputy director. “It is an honor to accept my new role as acting director for Johnson,” Koerner said. “Our employees are key to our nation’s human [...]

NASA’s X-59 Completes Electromagnetic Testing

By |2025-02-25T17:48:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s F-15D research aircraft is positioned adjacent to the X-59 during electromagnetic compatibility testing at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. Researchers activated the F-15D’s radar, C-band transponder, and radios at different distances from the X-59 to evaluate potential electromagnetic interference with [...]

NASA’s EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth’s Aurora

By |2025-02-25T14:41:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read NASA’s EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth’s Aurora High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of electrical charge around the poles every second. They can create some of [...]

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Takes Its 1st Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson

By |2025-02-25T14:01:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid  Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the perceived motion of Donaldjohanson relative to the background stars as the [...]

AGU 2024: NASA Science on Display in the Nation’s Capital

By |2025-02-25T13:47:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Earth Home Earth Observer Home Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam More Archives 8 min read AGU 2024: NASA Science on Display in the Nation’s Capital Introduction The American Geophysical Union (AGU) returned to the nation’s capital in 2024, hosting its annual meeting [...]

Sharing PLANETS Curriculum with Out-of-School Time Educators

By |2025-02-25T13:33:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Sharing PLANETS Curriculum… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   2 min read Sharing PLANETS Curriculum with Out-of-School Time Educators Out of school time (OST) educators work with youth in afterschool, community, and camp programs. Science, Technology, Engineering, and [...]

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