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NASA Sees Key Progress on Starlab Commercial Space Station

By |2025-07-16T11:00:00-04:00July 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

An artist’s concept of the Starlab commercial space station.Starlab As NASA continues its transition toward a commercial low Earth orbit marketplace, an agency-supported commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed five development and design milestones. Starlab’s planned design consists of a service module and a habitat that will be launched to orbit on a single flight. [...]

NASA Citizen Science and Your Career: Stories of Exoplanet Watch Volunteers

By |2025-07-16T10:08:00-04:00July 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read NASA Citizen Science and Your Career: Stories of Exoplanet Watch Volunteers Doing NASA Science brings many rewards. But can taking part in NASA citizen science help your career? To find out, we asked participants in NASA’s Exoplanet Watch project about their experiences. In this project, amateur astronomers work together with professionals [...]

Ejection Mechanism Design for the SPEED Test Architecture Challenge

By |2025-07-16T09:45:00-04:00July 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The The Stratospheric Projectile Entry Experiment on Dynamics (SPEED), a two-stage stratospheric drop test architecture, is currently under development to bridge the state-of-the-art gap that many NASA flagship missions require to reduce system risk and enable more optimized designs via margin reduction. To do this, a two-stage vehicle will drop from a high-altitude balloon [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4600-4601: Up and Over the Sand Covered Ramp

By |2025-07-16T03:25:00-04:00July 16th, 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 2 min [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4597-4599: Wide Open Spaces

By |2025-07-16T02:53:00-04:00July 16th, 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 2 min [...]

NASA Selects Companies for Architect-Engineer Services Contract

By |2025-07-15T16:53:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected seven companies to assist the agency with architectural and engineering services at multiple agency centers and facilities. The Western Regional Architect-Engineer Services is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract has a total estimated value not to exceed $75 million. The contract was awarded on July 14 with a five-year period of [...]

NASA SCoPE Summer Symposium Celebrates Early Career Scientists and Cross-Team Collaboration

By |2025-07-15T16:34:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Uncategorized NASA SCoPE Summer Symposium… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   4 min read NASA SCoPE Summer Symposium Celebrates Early Career Scientists and Cross-Team Collaboration From June 16–18, 2025, the NASA Science Mission Directorate Community of Practice for Education (SCoPE) [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Gears Up for Space Station Research

By |2025-07-15T15:00:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A host of scientific investigations await the crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission during their long-duration expedition aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, are set to study plant cell division and microgravity’s effects on bacteria-killing viruses, as well as perform [...]

NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar

By |2025-07-15T12:44:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) and other telescopes.  Scientists based in the U.S., Italy, and Spain, [...]

Helio Highlights: June 2025

By |2025-07-15T12:28:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Uncategorized Helio Highlights: June… Home Framework for Heliophysics Education About Helio Big Idea 1.1 Helio Big Idea 1.2 Helio Big Idea 1.3 Helio Big Idea 2.1 Helio Big Idea 2.2 Helio Big Idea 2.3 Helio Big Idea 3.1 Helio Big Idea 3.2 Helio Big Idea 3.3 Helio Missions Helio Topics [...]

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