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Spheres in the Sand

By |2025-07-29T19:34:00-04:00July 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4611-4613: Scenic Overlook

By |2025-07-28T20:02:00-04:00July 28th, 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 [...]

Hubble Spies Swirling Spiral

By |2025-07-25T07:00:00-04:00July 25th, 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 [...]

NASA Launches Mission to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield

By |2025-07-23T19:23:00-04:00July 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission launched at 2:13 p.m. EDT atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Credit: SpaceX NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space [...]

NASA, SpaceX Update Crew-10 Launch, Crew-9 Return Dates

By |2025-02-11T16:31:00-05:00February 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The official portrait of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members with (from left) Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos; Pilot Nichole Ayers and Commander Anne McClain, both NASA astronauts; and Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). Photo credit: NASA/Bill Stafford/Helen Arase Vargas NASA and SpaceX are accelerating the target launch and return [...]

NASA Adjusts Crew-10 Launch Date

By |2024-12-17T15:32:00-05:00December 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 now is targeting no earlier than late March 2025 to launch four crew members to the International Space Station. The change gives NASA and SpaceX teams time to complete processing on a new Dragon spacecraft for the mission. The new spacecraft is set to arrive to the company’s processing facility in Florida [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Spacecraft Relocates to New Port

By |2024-11-03T07:37:00-05:00November 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 crew members freed up space for an upcoming arrival to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, pilot, transferred their Dragon spacecraft from the forward-facing port of the Harmony module to the Zenith port at the orbiting laboratory on Nov. 3. The [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Astronaut Returns to Houston

By |2024-10-26T13:35:00-04:00October 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

After an overnight stay at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Florida, the NASA astronaut was released and returned to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Saturday. The crew member is in good health and will resume normal post-flight reconditioning with other crew members. As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission, the astronaut was one of [...]

NASA Provides Update on Agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 Health

By |2024-10-25T13:37:00-04:00October 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

After safely splashing down on Earth as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission Friday, a NASA astronaut experienced a medical issue. NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin were flown together to Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Florida. After medical evaluation at the hospital, three of the [...]

NASA Provides Agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 Mission Update

By |2024-10-25T08:08:00-04:00October 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The following is attributed to Cheryl Warner, news chief, NASA’s Office of Communications: “Following NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission’s safe splashdown and recovery off Florida’s coast early Friday morning, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin were taken to a local medical facility for additional evaluation. The crew exited [...]

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