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Norman Rockwell Commemorates Gemini Program with Grissom and Young

By |2025-03-26T12:26:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Norman Rockwell In his painting called Grissom and Young, American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell captures technicians helping NASA astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom suit up for the first flight of the Gemini program in March 1965. NASA loaned Norman Rockwell a Gemini spacesuit to make this painting as accurate as possible. Since its [...]

The Sky’s Not the Limit: Testing Precision Landing Tech for Future Space Missions

By |2025-03-26T12:07:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A NASA F/A-18 research aircraft flies above California near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, testing a commercial precision landing technology for future space missions. The Psionic Space Navigation Doppler Lidar (PSNDL) system is installed in a pod located under the right [...]

NASA’s Webb Sees Galaxy Mysteriously Clearing Fog of Early Universe

By |2025-03-26T12:00:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Webb News Latest News Latest Images Blog (offsite) Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Observatory Overview Launch [...]

NASA Starling and SpaceX Starlink Improve Space Traffic Coordination

By |2025-03-26T11:58:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Starling swarm’s extended mission tested advanced autonomous maneuvering capabilities.NASA/Daniel Rutter As missions to low Earth orbit become more frequent, space traffic coordination remains a key element to efficiently operating in space. Different satellite operators using autonomous systems need to operate together and manage [...]

NSTA Hyperwall Schedule

By |2025-03-26T11:33:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Earth Home Earth Observer Home Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam More Archives 3 min read NSTA Hyperwall Schedule National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) Annual Conference, March 26-29, 2025 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #779) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. [...]

How NASA’s Perseverance Is Helping Prepare Astronauts for Mars

By |2025-03-26T11:32:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) At left is NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, with a circle indicating the location of the calibration target for the rover’s SHERLOC instrument. At right is a close-up of the calibration target. Along the bottom row are five swatches of spacesuit materials that scientists are [...]

NASA’s Webb Captures Neptune’s Auroras For First Time

By |2025-03-26T06:00:00-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Min Read NASA’s Webb Captures Neptune’s Auroras For First Time At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Heidi Hammel (AURA), Henrik Melin (Northumbria University), Leigh Fletcher (University [...]

NASA Statement on Nomination of Greg Autry for Agency CFO

By |2025-03-25T19:36:00-04:00March 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of Greg AutryCredit: University of Central Florida The following is a statement from NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro regarding the nomination by President Donald Trump of Greg Autry on March 24 to serve as the agency’s chief financial officer (CFO): “The NASA CFO is responsible for executing more than $25 billion in agency funding [...]

NASA Cloud Software Helps Companies Find their Place in Space 

By |2025-03-25T16:35:00-04:00March 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Double Asteroid Redirection Test required extreme precision in mission planning to achieve its mission of impacting an asteroid. The founders of Continuum Space worked on astrodynamics relating to this mission, which they used to inform their product.NASA Planning space missions is a very [...]

NASA’s Spirit Rover Gets Looked Over

By |2025-03-25T16:31:00-04:00March 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Technicians do final checks on NASA’s Spirit rover in this image from March 28, 2003. The rover – and its twin, Opportunity – studied the history of climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. Each rover is about the size of a golf cart and [...]

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