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NASA’s SpaceX 32nd Resupply Mission Launches New Research to Station

By |2025-04-10T10:00:00-04:00April 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA and SpaceX are launching the company’s 32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station later this month, bringing a host of new research to the orbiting laboratory. Aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft are experiments focused on vision-based navigation, spacecraft air quality, [...]

NASA’s Juno Back to Normal Operations After Entering Safe Mode

By |2025-04-09T17:38:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read NASA’s Juno Back to Normal Operations After Entering Safe Mode NASA’s Juno flies above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in this artist’s concept. NASA/JPL-Caltech The spacecraft was making its 71st close approach to Jupiter when it unexpectedly entered into a precautionary status. Data received from NASA’s Juno mission indicates the solar-powered spacecraft [...]

Hubble Helps Determine Uranus’ Rotation Rate with Unprecedented Precision

By |2025-04-09T16:42:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

Expedition 73 Crew Launches to International Space Station

By |2025-04-09T14:38:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Joel Kowsky A Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 73 crew members including NASA astronaut Jonny Kim on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The crew arrived at the space station the same day, bringing the number of residents to 10 for the next two weeks. Expedition [...]

NASA Science Supports Data Literacy for K-12 Students

By |2025-04-09T14:28:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation NASA Science Supports Data… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   3 min read NASA Science Supports Data Literacy for K-12 Students Data – and our ability to understand and use it – shapes nearly every aspect of our [...]

Mike Drury: A 40-Year Legacy of Precision

By |2025-04-09T12:01:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Deputy Integration and Testing Manager – Goddard Space Flight Center Mike Drury began at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as a temporary technician — a contractor hired for six weeks to set up High Capacity Centrifuge tests. Six weeks then turned into three months and, eventually, over 40 years. Mike Drury, the [...]

NASA’s Planetary Defenders Documentary Premieres April 16

By |2025-04-09T11:15:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA is bringing the world of planetary defense to the public with its new documentary, “Planetary Defenders.” Dr. Shantanu Naidu, Asteroid Radar Researcher, from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory points toward the Goldstone Solar System Radar in Barstow, CA – the most powerful planetary radar [...]

Sols 4505-4506: Up, up and onto the Devil’s Gate 

By |2025-04-08T18:57:00-04:00April 8th, 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 3 min [...]

Welcome to the Mission Support Directorate (MSD)

By |2025-04-08T16:21:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Portrait of David Mitchell, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson building in Washington.NASA/Bill Ingalls David Mitchell, the Associate Administrator for MSD.    Have you ever wondered how NASA manages to achieve all the incredible missions it does, like probing the Sun and [...]

Sixty Years in Canberra: NASA’s Deep Space Network

By |2025-04-08T15:35:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Deep Space Station 43 (DSS-43), a 230-foot-wide (70-meter-wide) radio antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, is seen in this March 4, 2020, image. DSS-43 was more than six times as sensitive as the original antenna at the Canberra complex, so it could communicate with spacecraft at greater distances from Earth. [...]

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