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Why Do We Grow Plants in Space?

By |2025-04-15T10:59:00-04:00April 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Why do we grow plants in space? Plants are such versatile organisms that they can fulfill many roles in our exploration of space. Plants provide us with food, with oxygen, they can recycle water and waste, and they can even provide us with psychological [...]

Michael Ciancone Builds a Lasting Legacy in Human Spaceflight 

By |2025-04-15T09:53:00-04:00April 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

When Michael Ciancone joined NASA in 1983, he could hardly imagine what his 40-plus-year career would entail. From honoring and preserving spaceflight history to advancing safety standards, he has undoubtedly woven his knowledge and experience into NASA’s history as well as its future.   Ciancone currently serves as the Orion Program safety lead, overseeing the Office [...]

Can Solar Wind Make Water on Moon? NASA Experiment Shows Maybe 

By |2025-04-15T09:35:00-04:00April 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the Sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the Moon. When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind smashes into the lunar surface, the idea goes, it triggers a chemical reaction that could make water molecules.    Now, in the most realistic lab [...]

In the Starlight: Tina Preyan Fuels the Future at Johnson

By |2025-04-15T06:30:00-04:00April 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Exploring the unknown and preparing for humanity’s next giant leap really works up an appetite. Thankfully, employees at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston can count on Tina Preyan to help them fuel up and stay focused. Preyan is a food service specialist at Starport, a quality-of-life program that contributes to Johnson’s mission by providing [...]

NASA Announces 31st Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners

By |2025-04-14T15:34:00-04:00April 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video NASA has announced the winners of it’s 31st Human Exploration Rover Challenge . The annual engineering competition – one of the agency’s longest standing student challenges – wrapped up on April 11 and April 12, at the [...]

NASA Wallops Breaks Ground on New Causeway Bridge

By |2025-04-14T15:22:00-04:00April 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility commemorated the start of construction of its new Wallops Island causeway bridge during a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Monday, April 14, 2025, on the island.   NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility commemorated the start of construction of its new Wallops Island [...]

NASA Sets Coverage for SpaceX 32nd Station Resupply Launch, Arrival

By |2025-04-14T15:03:00-04:00April 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Dragon spacecraft atop, stands at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 4, 2024, in preparation for the agency’s SpaceX 31st Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station.Credit: SpaceX NASA and SpaceX are targeting 4:15 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 21, [...]

NASA to Host Webinar with Small Business Administration Leadership

By |2025-04-14T14:43:00-04:00April 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA’s Office of Small Business Programs will host the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for the first time at its monthly webinar for small businesses at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 16. The webinar, currently open for registration, will focus on a new SBA manufacturing initiative and provide information about SBA’s flagship 7(a) [...]

Exploring the Universe Through Sight, Touch, and Sound

By |2025-04-14T14:34:00-04:00April 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Exploring the Universe Through… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   3 min read Exploring the Universe Through Sight, Touch, and Sound For the first time in history, we can explore the universe through a rich blend of senses—seeing, [...]

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