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NASA, USGS Scientists Go Rock Hounding in California’s High Desert

By |2026-06-11T11:38:00-04:00June 11th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Geologists recently converged on a site near Barstow, California, to ground-truth a mineral discovery made on public land by a NASA JPL sensor flying aboard a plane overhead.NASA/JPL-Caltech Equipped with rock picks and hand lenses, a team of geoscientists deployed to the Mojave Desert recently to investigate a tantalizing “fingerprint” detected by a NASA sensor. [...]

NASA to Preview Katalyst Mission to Boost Swift Spacecraft’s Orbit

By |2026-06-11T09:58:00-04:00June 11th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Katalyst Space’s LINK robotic servicing satellite awaits encapsulation inside a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL on June 8, 2026, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket will carry LINK to space for an attempted orbital boost of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.Credit: NASA/Ron Beard NASA will host an audio-only media teleconference at 11 a.m. [...]

Curiosity Blog: Sols 4913-4919: Planetary explorers, freewheeling to the Yardang unit!

By |2026-06-10T17:23:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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The Eagle Nebula and Friends

By |2026-06-10T16:44:27-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What looks as if it is going to swallow the great Pillars of Creation? The Eagle Nebula (M16) is not a bird, a plane, or Superman. M16 is actually a combination of several celestial objects. NGC 6611 is the young star cluster that appears to peak out beneath the Eagle’s [...]

NASA Awards Contract for Construction Services in California

By |2026-06-10T16:32:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected multiple small businesses for the Western Regional Multiple Award Construction Contract, which supports a broad range of facility enhancement, modernization, and sustainment work at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, and other federal agencies in the region. The contract provides [...]

NASA, NOAA to Hold Joint Session at 23rd Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

By |2026-06-10T14:09:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

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NASA Equips Astronauts, Industry with Robotic Intelligence 

By |2026-06-10T13:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In the Integrated Mobile Evaluation Testbed for Robotics Operations facility at Johnson Space Center, PickNik robotic control software proved its prowess in tasks like passing cargo transfer bags through a hatch and placing them in storage bins, in anticipation of work NASA would like [...]

Train Ride to NASA Kennedy for Artemis III Booster Segments

By |2026-06-10T12:05:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Brandon Hancock The final booster motor segments for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will help propel Artemis III astronauts on their journey to space shipped from Northrop Grumman’s Railyard Shipping Facility in Corinne, Utah on June 2. The eight booster motor segments are on their way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida [...]

Jim Irons, Former Landsat Project Scientist, Wins Pecora Award

By |2026-06-10T10:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’

By |2026-06-10T10:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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