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NASA Back for Seconds with New Food System Design Challenge

By |2026-01-13T11:53:00-05:00January 13th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This illustration of Moon to Mars infrastructure shows astronauts living and working on the surface of Mars. NASA’s Moon to Mars Objectives establish an objectives-based approach to the agency’s human deep space exploration efforts; NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture approach distills the objectives into [...]

2026 Civil Space Shortfall Ranking

By |2026-01-12T13:41:00-05:00January 12th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA NASA has identified a list of 32 technology shortfalls and invites you to give input on your critical technology needs using this feedback mechanism. Whether you’re part of the space technology community or an interested member of the public, your input is invaluable. By registering and providing your feedback, you could help inform of national space technology [...]

NASA Welcomes Portugal as 60th Artemis Accords Signatory

By |2026-01-12T13:32:00-05:00January 12th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Hugo Costa, executive director for the Portuguese Space Agency, and U.S. Ambassador to Portugal John J. Arrigo pose for a photo on Jan. 12 during a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, to mark the country’s signing of the Artemis Accords.Credit: U.S. State Department Portugal is the latest nation to sign the Artemis Accords alongside 59 other [...]

NASA Stennis Engineer Proud to Serve During NASA’s Return to the Moon

By |2026-01-12T12:42:00-05:00January 12th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Richard Wear stands with the E Test Complex in the background at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, where he is acting chief of the Mechanical Engineering Branch. NASA/Danny Nowlin Richard Wear calls it an honor to be working at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, during a historic time as NASA prepares to [...]

White Dwarf Star (Artist’s Concept)

By |2026-01-12T12:34:00-05:00January 12th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk. Scientists used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white dwarf star and its X-ray polarization.MIT/Jose-Luis Olivares A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion [...]

NASA Marshall Removes 2 Historic Test Stands

By |2026-01-10T16:01:00-05:00January 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, removed two of its historic test stands – the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility and the Dynamic Test Facility – with carefully coordinated implosions on Jan. 10, 2026. The [...]

Flight Engineers Give NASA’s Dragonfly Lift

By |2026-01-09T13:17:00-05:00January 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific discovery. And the work to ensure that this first-of-its-kind project can fulfill its ambitious exploration vision is underway in some of the nation’s most advanced space simulation and testing laboratories. From [...]

I Am Artemis: Dave Reynolds

By |2026-01-09T12:29:00-05:00January 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Dave Reynolds Dave Reynolds, the booster manager for SLS (Space Launch System), works inside the Next Generation Booster Avionics Mockup at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Reynolds is responsible for the design, development, and flight of the boosters for the rocket that carry NASA’s Orion [...]

NASA to Provide Media with International Space Station Update Today

By |2026-01-08T14:26:00-05:00January 8th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA will host a live news conference at 5 p.m. EST on Thursday from the agency’s headquarters in Washington to discuss the International Space Station and its crew. On Jan. 7, the agency announced it was postponing a planned spacewalk originally scheduled for Jan. 8 while teams monitored a medical concern with a [...]

Best of 2025: Artemis II Countdown Demonstration Test

By |2026-01-08T12:20:00-05:00January 8th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA/Joel Kowsky Artemis II crewmembers (left to right) NASA astronauts Christina Koch, mission specialist; and Victor Glover, pilot; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, commander are led by Bill Owens of the Closeout Crew from the elevator at the 275-foot level of the mobile launcher to the [...]

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