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How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Will Make a Looping Voyage to the Moon

By |2025-02-13T16:21:00-05:00February 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer approaches the Moon as it enters its science orbit in this artist’s concept. The small satellite will orbit about 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the lunar surface, producing the best-yet maps of water on the Moon.Lockheed Martin Space NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer [...]

Giving NASA’s CADRE a Hand

By |2025-02-13T13:29:00-05:00February 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech One of three small lunar rovers — part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) — is prepared for shipping in a clean room on Jan. 29, 2025, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The project is designed to show that a group of robots can collaborate [...]

Tribal Library Co-Design STEM Space Workshop

By |2025-02-13T13:15:00-05:00February 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This SectionScienceScience ActivationTribal Library Co-Design STEM…OverviewLearning ResourcesScience Activation TeamsSME MapOpportunitiesMoreScience Activation StoriesCitizen Science  3 min read Tribal Library Co-Design STEM Space Workshop Christine Shupla and Claire Ratcliffe Adams, from the NASA Science Activation program’s NASA@ My Library project, facilitated a professional development Co-Design Space Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Workshop for Tribal libraries [...]

NASA Readies Moon Rocket for the Future with Manufacturing Innovation

By |2025-02-13T11:29:00-05:00February 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Artemis campaign will send astronauts, payloads, and science experiments into deep space on NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) super heavy-lift Moon rocket. Starting with Artemis IV, the Orion spacecraft and its astronauts will be joined by other payloads atop an upgraded version of the SLS, called Block 1B. SLS Block 1B will deliver initial [...]

NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Will Seek Life’s Ingredients

By |2025-02-13T11:27:00-05:00February 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the Milky Way galaxy looking for water ice and other key ingredients for life. In the search for these frozen compounds, the mission will focus on molecular clouds — collections of gas and dust in space — like this [...]

In the Starlight: Tristan McKnight Brings NASA’s Historic Moments to Life  

By |2025-02-13T10:52:00-05:00February 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

For more than a decade, Tristan McKnight has been a driving force behind some of NASA’s most iconic events, orchestrating the behind-the-scenes magic that brings each historic moment to life while sharing the agency’s advancements with the public.  As a multimedia producer on the audiovisual team at Johnson Space Center in Houston, McKnight produces and [...]

Heart Health

By |2025-02-13T10:00:00-05:00February 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read Heart Health Jessica Meir conducts cardiac research in the space station’s Life Sciences Glovebox. Credits: NASA Science in Space: February 2025 February was first proclaimed as American Heart Month in 1964. Since then, its 28 (or 29) days have served as an opportunity to encourage people to focus on their cardiovascular [...]

Webb Maps Full Picture of How Phoenix Galaxy Cluster Forms Stars

By |2025-02-13T10:00:00-05:00February 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read Webb Maps Full Picture of How Phoenix Galaxy Cluster Forms Stars Spectroscopic data collected from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is overlayed on an image of the Phoenix cluster that combines data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope. Credits: NASA, CXC, [...]

25 Years Ago: STS-99, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

By |2025-02-12T17:02:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On Feb. 11, 2000, space shuttle Endeavour took to the skies on its 14th trip into space on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The international STS-99 crew included Commander Kevin Kregel, Pilot Dominic Gorie, and Mission Specialists Gerhard Thiele of Germany representing the European Space Agency, Janet Kavandi, Janice Voss, who served as payload [...]

NASA’s Polar Ice Experiment Paves Way for Future Moon Missions 

By |2025-02-12T15:57:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Artistic rendering of Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander on the surface of the Moon.Credit: Intuitive Machines NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing to explore the Moon’s subsurface and analyze where lunar resources may reside. The experiment’s two key instruments will demonstrate our ability to extract and analyze lunar soil to better understand the [...]

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