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NASA Group Amplifies Voices of Employees with Disabilities

By |2024-10-29T10:50:00-04:00October 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Kathy Clark (left) and Ryan D. Brown have both served as chairs of NASA Glenn Research Center’s Disability Awareness Advisory Group, which works to help provide individuals with disabilities equal opportunities in all aspects of employment.Credit: NASA/Jef Janis Kathy Clark started her career at [...]

NASA Relaunches Mentor-Protégé Program to Fill Supply Chain Gaps

By |2024-10-29T10:49:00-04:00October 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA In an effort to grow new commercial markets that support the future of space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research, NASA is preparing to relaunch its Mentor-Protégé Program for contractors on Friday, Nov. 1. The program originally was launched to encourage NASA prime contractors, or mentors, to enter into agreements with eligible small [...]

New NASA Instrument for Studying Snowpack Completes Airborne Testing

By |2024-10-29T09:41:00-04:00October 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Rocky Mountains in Colorado, as seen from the International Space Station. Snowmelt from the mountainous western United States is an essential natural resource, making up as much as 75% of some states’ annual freshwater supply. Summer heat has significant effects in the mountainous regions of the western United States. Melted snow washes from [...]

NGC 602: Stars Versus Pillars from Webb

By |2024-10-29T09:09:10-04:00October 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The stars are destroying the pillars. More specifically, some of the newly formed stars in the image center are emitting light so energetic that is evaporating the gas and dust in the surrounding pillars. Simultaneously, the pillars themselves are still trying to form new stars. The whole setting is the [...]

Gateway: Centering Science

By |2024-10-29T08:50:00-04:00October 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Stephanie Dudley, Gateway’s mission integration and utilization manager, sits inside a high-fidelity HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) mockup at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.NASA/Josh Valcarcel Stephanie Dudley sits at the intersection of human spaceflight and science for Gateway, humanity’s first lunar space station that will [...]

Sols 4345-4347: Contact Science is Back on the Table

By |2024-10-28T20:45:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|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 The Solar System The [...]

Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster

By |2024-10-28T14:19:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Drake et al, IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Spitzer; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out large amounts of high-energy radiation, which can disrupt relatively fragile disks of dust and gas that are in the process of coalescing to form new [...]

Watch How Students Help NASA Grow Plants in Space: Growing Beyond Earth

By |2024-10-28T13:59:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Learn Home Watch How Students Help NASA… Citizen Science Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   2 min read Watch How Students Help NASA Grow Plants in Space: Growing Beyond Earth Since 2015, students from across the USA have been partnering with scientists at NASA [...]

An Opportunity to Study Water

By |2024-10-28T13:28:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Don Pettit NASA astronaut Don Pettit fills a sphere of water with food coloring in this image from Oct. 20, 2024. Pettit calls experiments like these “science of opportunity” – moments of scientific exploration that spontaneously come to mind because of the unique experience of being on the International Space Station. During his previous missions, Pettit [...]

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Looks Back While Climbing Slippery Slope

By |2024-10-28T13:13:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This enhanced-color mosaic was taken on Sept. 27 by the Perseverance rover while climbing the western wall of Jezero Crater. Many of the landmarks visited by the rover during its 3½-year exploration of Mars can be seen.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS On its way up the side of [...]

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