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NASA Lab Completes Engine Checks on New Aircraft

By |2025-12-18T14:26:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA/Christopher LC Clark Justin Hall, left, controls a subscale aircraft as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during preliminary engine tests on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at NASA’s Armstong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Hall, chief pilot at the center’s Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory, and Link, a pilot for small uncrewed [...]

NASA’s Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time

By |2025-12-18T14:00:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

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NASA, Boeing Test How to Improve Performance of Longer, Narrower Aircraft Wings 

By |2025-12-18T14:00:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Integrated Adaptive Wing Technology Maturation wind-tunnel model installed in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.NASA / Mark Knopp The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today’s, with longer, thinner wings that [...]

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other

By |2025-12-18T12:56:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This panoramic view of SPHEREx’s first all-sky map shows how the sky looks to the telescope. It transitions between observations of colors emitted by hot hydrogen gas (blue) and cosmic dust (red), and those primarily emitted by stars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Launched in March, NASA’s [...]

NASA Welcomes 15th Administrator Jared Isaacman

By |2025-12-18T12:56:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, left, swears in Jared Isaacman, right, as the 15th administrator of NASA, as Isaacman’s parents, Donald and Sandra Marie, join on Dec. 18, 2025, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Jared Isaacman was sworn in Thursday as NASA’s 15th administrator by District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. [...]

A Look Back at NASA Stennis in 2025

By |2025-12-18T12:01:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In 2025, NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, marked a year of progress by supporting NASA’s Artemis campaign, celebrating historic milestones, and continuing its role as a trusted propulsion test partner at America’s largest rocket propulsion test site. “For more than [...]

2025 Science Activation Opportunity

By |2025-12-18T11:40:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read 2025 Science Activation Opportunity NASA Science encourages all people to actively participate in science through activities and resources developed by a collaborative network of project teams drawing on NASA SMD assets (science content, experts, data, etc.). Your team can apply to be part of this program. Opportunity NASA SMD seeks a portfolio of [...]

Payroll

By |2025-12-18T11:36:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

1 Min Read Payroll The NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) Payroll Office (NPO) reviews, validates, and delivers time and attendance data to the Department of the Interior (DOI) Interior Business Center (IBC) for NASA Centers.  NPO acts as liaison between Centers, employees and IBC for other payroll related activities such as supplemental payments, prior [...]

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Ready to Roll for Miles in Years Ahead

By |2025-12-17T13:31:00-05:00December 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of a location nicknamed “Mont Musard” on Sept. 8, 2025. Made up of three images, the panorama also captures another region, “Lac de Charmes,” where the rover’s team will be looking for more rock core samples to collect in the year ahead.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS After nearly five years on Mars, [...]

NASA’s Two-in-One Satellite Propulsion Demo Begins In-Space Test

By |2025-12-17T12:25:00-05:00December 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Dual Propulsion Experiment (DUPLEX) deploys from the International Space Station December 2, 2025.NASA NASA is working with commercial partners to create high-performing, reliable propulsion systems that will help small spacecraft safely maneuver in orbit, reach intended destinations across the solar system, and accomplish mission [...]

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