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NASA F-15s Validate Tools for Quesst Mission

By |2025-06-10T12:14:00-04:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s F-15D research aircraft conducts a calibration flight of a shock-sensing probe near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The shock-sensing probe is designed to measure the signature and strength of shock waves in flight. The probe was validated during dual F-15 [...]

NASA Student Challenge Prepares Future Designers for Lunar Missions

By |2025-06-10T10:43:00-04:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read NASA Student Challenge Prepares Future Designers for Lunar Missions At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the next generation of lunar explorers and engineers are already hard at work. Some started with sketchbooks and others worked with computer-aided design files, but all had a vision of how design could thrive in [...]

Laser Focused: Keith Barr Leads Orion’s Lunar Docking Efforts 

By |2025-06-10T06:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Keith Barr was born only months before the historic Apollo 11 landing in 1969. While he was too young to witness that giant leap for mankind, the moment sparked a lifelong fascination that set him on a path to design technology that will carry astronauts farther into space than ever before.  Today, Barr serves as [...]

NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”

By |2025-06-09T15:56:00-04:00June 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/J. Maithil et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA’s [...]

Central Brazil Cerrado

By |2025-06-09T13:32:00-04:00June 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Amid a patchwork of fields, towns, and winding rivers and roads in central Brazil stands a monolithic oval-shaped plateau. This conspicuous feature, the Serra de Caldas (also known as the Caldas Novas dome and Caldas Ridge), is perched about 300 meters (1,000 feet) above the surrounding landscape in the state of Goiás.NASA/Wanmei Liang; Landsat data: [...]

NASA’s TROPICS Mission: Offering Detailed Images and Analysis of Tropical Cyclones

By |2025-06-09T11:55:00-04:00June 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 9 min read NASA’s TROPICS Mission: Offering Detailed Images and Analysis of Tropical Cyclones Introduction Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of [...]

Comet-Catching NASA Technology Enables Exotic Works of Art 

By |2025-06-09T11:01:00-04:00June 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Jet Propulsion Laboratory perfected aerogel for the Stardust mission. Under Stardust, bricks of aerogel covered panels on a spacecraft that flew behind a comet, with the microporous material “soft catching” any particles that might strike it and preserving them for return to Earth.NASA [...]

Paul Morris: Filming the Final Frontier

By |2025-06-09T10:30:00-04:00June 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Video Producer – Goddard Space Flight Center What sparked your interest in video production, and what drew you to NASA?  Ever since I saw “Star Wars” at nine years old, I knew I wanted to make movies. I would make little stop action videos with my action figures. How did you land this role at [...]

Sols 4561-4562: Prepping to Drill at Altadena

By |2025-06-06T18:53:00-04:00June 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 4 min [...]

From Garment Industry to NASA: Meet Systems Engineer Daniel Eng

By |2025-06-06T18:20:00-04:00June 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Systems Engineer Daniel Eng serves his second year as a judge for the Aerospace Valley Robotics Competition at the Palmdale Aerospace Academy in Palmdale, California, in 2019. NASA/Lauren Hughes As a child in the 1960s, Daniel Eng spent his weekends in New York [...]

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