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Louisiana Students Loft Payloads from NASA Balloon Facility in Texas

By |2026-08-03T15:22:00-04:00August 3rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Every spring in Palestine, Texas, the wide-open fields around NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility fill with students and faculty from across Louisiana. They arrive carrying sensors, laptops, and carefully engineered payloads they have spent months preparing.  The goal is to send their experiments to [...]

NASA’s Newest Wind Tunnel Opens at NASA Langley

By |2026-07-31T16:19:00-04:00July 31st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

From left to right: Casey Swails, NASA deputy associate administrator; Mike Waller, vice president of BL Harbert International Federal Division; Edward C. Forst, administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration; NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; Dr. Trina Dyal, director of NASA’s Langley Research Center; Rep. Robert “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.); Virginia Lt. Gov. Ghazala F. Hashmi; Jimmy [...]

TB 26-04 Webbings for Use in Elevated Oxygen Environments

By |2026-07-31T15:05:00-04:00July 31st, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Flammability test results for commercial-off-the-shelf webbings that meet NASA flammability requirements are reported for use in elevated oxygen environments anticipated for future lunar and Martian missions. Testing demonstrated that a webbing composed of 60% Kevlar®/40% polybenzimidazole (PBI) from Sturges Manufacturing Company, Inc., specifically the natural version, passed flammability testing per NASA-STD-6001B Test 1 using a [...]

Look for NASA+ Now Streaming on Amazon Fire TV

By |2026-07-23T15:11:00-04:00July 23rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Credit: NASA Continuing agency efforts to bring space closer to home, NASA+ is heading to more streaming platforms. On Thursday, NASA announced its programming is on Fire TV Channels. Fire TV customers can easily access this content by asking Alexa+ on compatible devices. Future programming on Fire TV may include science mission launches, a test [...]

NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 Mission to Space Station

By |2026-07-20T16:00:00-04:00July 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 members are pictured in their pressure suits seated inside a mockup Dragon spacecraft during a preflight training session at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are Roscosmos Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk. Credit: SpaceX NASA and its partners [...]

New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights  

By |2026-07-20T14:25:00-04:00July 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Science Agriculture Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at Work Earth Science at Work Technology and Innovation Powering Business Multimedia Image Collections Videos Data For Researchers About Us 6 Min Read New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science [...]

NASA’s Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula

By |2026-07-17T16:05:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) directly measured the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the “Lighthouse” Nebula, for the first time.X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./J. Dinsmore et al.; IXPE: NASA/MSFC/J. Dinsmore et al., Radio: CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA; Optical: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare This composite image, [...]

La NASA invita a los medios de comunicación al lanzamiento del telescopio espacial Roman

By |2026-07-17T15:27:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Aquí puede verse el telescopio espacial Nancy Grace Roman de la NASA en la sala limpia del Centro de Vuelo Espacial Goddard de la agencia en Greenbelt, Maryland, donde este observatorio fue construido y sometido a pruebas. Los amplios y profundos sondeos de Roman explorarán la materia oscura, la energía oscura, los exoplanetas y prácticamente [...]

NASA Study of Pristine Meteorite Adds to Story of Ancient Asteroids

By |2026-07-15T15:28:00-04:00July 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

6 min read NASA Study of Pristine Meteorite Adds to Story of Ancient Asteroids C1 clasts in Hillsborough: On the left is a back-scattered electron image with two C1 748 clasts circled. On the right, an X-ray map of the same area as (A), indicating Na enrichment in 749 of the C1 clasts relative [...]

NASA Transfers ‘Hundred Acre Wood’ to Patuxent Research Refuge

By |2026-07-07T14:00:00-04:00July 7th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 Min Read NASA Transfers ‘Hundred Acre Wood’ to Patuxent Research Refuge Following a ceremony on July 7, 2026, officials hold up a U.S. 250th pennant at “Area 400,” a 105-acre parcel previously part of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and now part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Patuxent [...]

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