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What’s Up: January 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

By |2024-12-30T11:59:00-05:00December 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Eclipses Explore the Night Sky Night Sky Network More Tips and Guides FAQ Download the Video Four Planets in One View! Each evening this month, enjoy a sweeping view of four bright planets at once. Also look for a close approach of Venus and Saturn, Mars occulted by the [...]

Remembering President Carter

By |2024-12-30T11:46:00-05:00December 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA President Jimmy Carter, wife Rosalynn, and daughter Amy, along with Kennedy Space Center Director Lee Scherer, look at a scale model of the crawler that transported the total shuttle launch configuration from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad 39. Despite the setbacks faced through technical and schedule problems during the development of the Space [...]

Earth to Space Call: NASA Leaders to Speak with Station Astronauts

By |2024-12-30T11:26:00-05:00December 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, react as they are recognized by employees during a NASA agencywide all hands on Dec. 6, 2024, at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington.Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will speak with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, [...]

NASA Administrator Pays Tribute to President Carter

By |2024-12-29T19:05:00-05:00December 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

President Carter, wife Rosalynn and daughter Amy are shown a scale model of the crawler that transported the total shuttle launch configuration to Pad 39 from the Vehicle Assembly Building by NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Director Lee Scherer in 1978.NASA The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Sunday’s passing of President [...]

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun

By |2024-12-27T13:02:00-05:00December 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun An artist’s concept showing Parker Solar Probe. Credits: NASA/APL Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 [...]

Mechanical Systems TDT Support Reaches Across NASA Programs

By |2024-12-26T11:04:00-05:00December 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The NESC Mechanical Systems TDT provides broad support across NASA’s mission directorates. We are a diverse group representing a variety of sub-disciplines including bearings, gears, metrology, lubrication and tribology, mechanism design, analysis and testing, fastening systems, valve engineering, actuator engineering, pyrotechnics, mechatronics, and motor controls. In addition to providing technical support, the TDT owns and [...]

NESC Assists in Heatshield Investigation

By |2024-12-26T09:44:00-05:00December 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I mission launched from KSC on November 16, 2022. After a successful mission that included orbiting the Moon, the Orion spacecraft returned to Earth splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on December 11, 2022. While the spacecraft made a safe return to Earth, postflight inspection of Orion’s thermal protection indicated that the [...]

Hang a Shining Star Upon the Highest Bough

By |2024-12-24T14:15:00-05:00December 24th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Clow, M.; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand This new view of the “Christmas tree cluster” NGC 2264, released on Dec. 17, 2024, combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical data from astrophotographer Michael Clow’s telescope in Arizona. Chandra data is represented in red, purple, blue, and white, while [...]

Collaboration Is Key to A Strong Materials Discipline

By |2024-12-24T13:33:00-05:00December 24th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA has a strong need for advanced materials and processes (M&P) across the realms of robotic- and crewed-spaceflight, as well as aeronautics, particularly when one acknowledges that all craft must be made of something. To meet that need, the materials discipline relies on collaboration—both between centers and across disciplines. Reaching the Agency’s Moon-to-Mars objectives will [...]

Characterizing the Visual Experience of Astronauts at the Lunar South Pole

By |2024-12-24T12:59:00-05:00December 24th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Humans are returning to the Moon—this time, to stay. Because our presence will be more permanent, NASA has selected a location that maximizes line-of-sight communication with Earth, solar visibility, and access to water ice: the Lunar South Pole (LSP). While the Sun is in the lunar sky more consistently at the poles, it never rises [...]

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