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NASA Welcomes Community, Astronauts to Marshall’s 65th Anniversary Celebration July 19

By |2025-06-17T16:25:00-04:00June 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center invites the community to help celebrate the center’s 65th anniversary during a free public event noon to 5 p.m. CDT Saturday, July 19, at The Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA Marshall, along with its partners and collaborators, will [...]

From Space to Soil: How NASA Sees Forests

By |2025-06-17T15:24:00-04:00June 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Home Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at Work Earth Science at Work Technology and Innovation Powering Business Multimedia Image Collections Videos Data For Researchers About Us 1 min read From Space to Soil: How NASA Sees [...]

NASA Engineers Simulate Lunar Lighting for Artemis III Moon Landing

By |2025-06-17T14:05:00-04:00June 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read NASA Engineers Simulate Lunar Lighting for Artemis III Moon Landing Better understanding the lunar lighting environment will help NASA prepare astronauts for the harsh environment Artemis III Moonwalkers will experience on their mission. NASA’s Artemis III mission will build on earlier test flights and add new capabilities with the human landing [...]

Training for the Moo(n)

By |2025-06-17T13:41:00-04:00June 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Josh Valcarcel A curious cow watches as NASA astronauts Andre Douglas and Kate Rubins perform a simulated moonwalk in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 14, 2024, in preparation for NASA’s historic Artemis III Moon landing mission. Flight controllers and scientists guided activities during the week-long simulation from mission control at [...]

NASA, German Aerospace Center to Expand Artemis Campaign Cooperation

By |2025-06-17T10:53:00-04:00June 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro and Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla, chair, Executive Board, DLR (German Aerospace Center, or Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt), signed an agreement June 16, 2025, to continue a partnership on space medicine research. With this agreement, DLR will provide new radiation sensors aboard the Orion spacecraft during NASA’s Artemis II mission. Scheduled for [...]

A New Hybrid System Could Enable Spacecraft Attitude Control Systems to Perform Scientific Measurements

By |2025-06-17T09:50:00-04:00June 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A NASA-sponsored team is creating a new approach to measure magnetic fields by developing a new system that can both take scientific measurements and provide spacecraft attitude control functions. This new system is small, lightweight, and can be accommodated onboard the spacecraft, eliminating the need for the boom structure that is typically required to measure [...]

Driven by a Dream: Farah Al Fulfulee’s Quest to Reach the Stars

By |2025-06-17T06:00:00-04:00June 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Farah Al Fulfulee was just four years old when she started climbing onto the roof of her family’s house in Iraq to gaze at the stars. “It scared me how vast and quiet the sky was, but it made me very curious. I grew a deep passion for the stars and constellations and what they [...]

Explore Our Dynamic Sun!

By |2025-06-16T18:36:00-04:00June 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Explore Our Dynamic Sun! from NASA’s Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT) and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific/Night Sky Network Have you ever wondered about what the Sun is made of? Or why do you get sunburned on even cloudy days? NASA’s new Explore the Sun toolkit brings the wonders [...]

NASA Employees Named 2025 Service to America Medals Honorees

By |2025-06-16T17:47:00-04:00June 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Worm logo is displayed in front of the agency’s headquarters in Washington.Credit: NASA Two NASA employees are being  honored as part of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as the Sammies, recognizing outstanding federal employees who are addressing many of our country’s greatest challenges. Rich Burns of NASA’s Goddard Space [...]

NASA Celebrates Employees Selected for Top Federal Award

By |2025-06-16T17:47:00-04:00June 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Worm logo is displayed in front of the agency’s headquarters in Washington.Credit: NASA Two NASA employees are being honored as part of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as the Sammies, recognizing outstanding federal employees who are addressing many of our country’s greatest challenges. Rich Burns of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight [...]

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