A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. After launch, the spacecraft plans to fly by Mars in February 2025, then back by Earth in December 2026, using the gravity of [...]
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Felipe Valdez, a NASA engineer at Armstrong Flight Research Center’s Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory, stands next to a subscale model of the Hybrid Quadrotor (HQ-90) aircraft. NASA / Charles Genaro Vavuris Felipe Valdez is someone who took advantage of every possible opportunity [...]
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5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Europa Clipper spacecraft aboard is seen at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the mission, Sunday, Oct. 13, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA Find details about the launch sequences for the orbiter, which [...]
Credit: NASA While in Milan for international meetings, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was among the witnesses as Estonia signed the Artemis Accords and became the 45th nation to join the United States and other signatories agreeing to the safe, transparent, and responsible exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The signing ceremony took place ahead [...]
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Yomayra Cruz-Diaz, technical project coordinator at NASA Langley with her son, Israel Martinez-Cruz. Martinez-Cruz is serving in the United States Marine Corps and is stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.NASA / Jessica Arreola Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn’t imagine that [...]
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Yomayra Cruz-Díaz, coordinadora de proyectos técnicos en NASA Langley con su hijo, Israel Martínez-Cruz. Martínez sirve en los Marines de los Estados Unidos y está destinado en la Estación Aérea de los Marines en Miramar.NASA / Jessica Arreola Al crecer en Puerto Rico, Yomayra [...]
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The puzzling surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa looms large in this reprocessed color view made from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. The images were assembled into a realistic color view of the surface that approximates how Europa would [...]
NASA canvases the areas impacted by Hurricane Milton using cloud-penetrating L-band radar providing responders insight into flooding across Florida.NASA In the wake of Hurricane Milton, NASA is deploying resources to support Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and state emergency management agencies to aid their response effort including satellite and aerial data collection. The agency’s Disasters [...]
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