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A Gigantic Jet Caught on Camera: A Spritacular Moment for NASA Astronaut Nicole Ayers!

By |2025-08-12T14:58:00-04:00August 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Left: Gigantic Jet Event from the International Space Station, taken by NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers. (Credit: Ayers) Right: Sprite event appearing over a lightning strike, seen from space. This photo was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 44. Credit: NASA astronauts on board Expedition 44 Did you see that gorgeous [...]

NASA Roman Core Survey Will Trace Cosmic Expansion Over Time

By |2025-08-12T10:00:00-04:00August 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be a discovery machine, thanks to its wide field of view and resulting torrent of data. Scheduled to launch no later than May 2027, with the team working toward launch as early as fall 2026, its near-infrared Wide Field Instrument will capture an area 200 times larger than [...]

NASA Invites Media to View Artemis II Orion Stage Adapter at Marshall

By |2025-08-11T17:08:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Artemis II Orion stage adapter, built at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA Media are invited to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, at 2 p.m. CDT Thursday, Aug. 14 to view the final piece of space flight [...]

NASA Awards Second Human Health, Performance Contract

By |2025-08-11T16:21:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected KBR Wyle Services, LLC of Fulton, Maryland, to provide services to the Human Health and Performance Directorate at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, which focuses on astronaut health, occupational health, and research that could help mitigate health risks for future human spaceflight missions. The Human Health and Performance [...]

NASA Explores Industry Possibilities to Raise Swift Mission’s Orbit

By |2025-08-11T15:55:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory orbiting above Earth.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KBRwyle) To drive the development of key space-based capabilities for the United States, NASA is exploring an opportunity to demonstrate technology to raise a spacecraft’s orbit to a higher altitude. Two American companies – Cambrian Works [...]

Space Station Cell Studies

By |2025-08-11T15:00:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read Space Station Cell Studies Cells grown aboard the International Space Station. Credits: University of Connecticut Science in Space August 2025 Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things, from single-celled bacteria to plants and animals containing vast numbers of them. Cells have adapted for a wide variety of settings [...]

NASA Continues Search for Moon-Focused Sustainability Solutions

By |2025-08-11T14:40:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

An artist’s concept of the Moon (right) and Mars (center) against the starry expanse of space. A sliver of the Earth’s horizon can be seen in the foreground.Credit: NASA NASA is accepting U.S. submissions for the second phase of the agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge, a Moon-focused recycling competition. The challenge aims to develop solutions for recycling [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashes Down in Pacific Ocean

By |2025-08-11T13:09:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Keegan Barber The members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission – Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, left, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi – are all smiles after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. The crew [...]

Juliana Barajas: Supporting NASA’s Mission, One Task at a Time 

By |2025-08-11T06:00:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

As an administrative assistant in the Safety and Mission Assurance Office at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Juliana Barajas approaches her work with one clear mission: to help others succeed.   Juliana Barajas stands in front of the Super Guppy at the El Paso Forwarding Operations Location (EPFOL) in El Paso, [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off California

By |2025-08-09T13:29:00-04:00August 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025.Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber Editor’s Note: This release was edited Aug. [...]

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