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NASA Stennis Software is Built for Future Growth

By |2025-05-08T10:00:00-04:00May 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Editor’s Note: The following is one of three related articles about the NASA Data Acquisition System and related efforts. Please visit Stennis News – NASA to access accompanying articles. The NASA Data Acquisition System, developed at NASA Stennis, is used in multiple test areas at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, including Test [...]

M1: The Incredible Expanding Crab

By |2025-05-08T09:09:06-04:00May 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Cataloged as M1, the Crab Nebula is the first on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab Nebula is now known to be a supernova remnant, an expanding cloud of debris from the death explosion of a massive star. The violent birth of [...]

NASA Statement on Nomination of Matt Anderson for Deputy Administrator

By |2025-05-07T16:37:00-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

President Trump has nominated Matt Anderson to serve as the agency’s deputy administrator.Credit: Photo courtesy of Matt Anderson Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro issued the following statement regarding the nomination by President Donald Trump of Matt Anderson Wednesday to serve as the agency’s deputy administrator: “As a retired United States Air Force colonel and executive [...]

Key Portion of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Clears Thermal Vacuum Test

By |2025-05-07T14:14:00-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

One half of NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just passed a lengthy test to ensure it will function properly in the space environment. This photo shows half of the NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman observatory — the outer barrel assembly, deployable aperture cover, and test solar arrays — fully deployed in a thermal [...]

A Glimpse of a Meatball

By |2025-05-07T14:08:00-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Bridget Caswell The NASA “meatball” logo, mounted on the Flight Research Building at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, peeks through tree leaves in this June 10, 2016, photo. Built in the 1940s, the Flight Research Building, also known as the NASA Glenn Hangar, is a facility large enough to hold numerous aircraft of various [...]

New Visualization From NASA’s Webb Telescope Explores Cosmic Cliffs

By |2025-05-07T14:00:00-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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NASA Statement on Appointment of New JPL Director

By |2025-05-07T13:05:00-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Dave Gallagher will become the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Monday, June 2. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro on the appointment of David Gallagher as director of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. NASA JPL announced Wednesday Laurie Leshin [...]

Dave Gallagher Named 11th Director of JPL as Laurie Leshin Steps Down

By |2025-05-07T12:43:00-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Dave Gallagher will become the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Monday, June 2. NASA/JPL-Caltech Laurie Leshin has decided to step down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sunday, June 1. David Gallagher, who has been serving as the Lab’s associate director for Strategic Integration, has been selected by [...]

NASA Expands Youth Engagement With New Scouting America Agreement

By |2025-05-07T12:15:00-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA and the Sam Houston Area Council (SHAC) of Scouting America signed a collaborative Space Act Agreement on December 17, 2024, expanding youth access to programs and opportunities with the Johnson Space Center’s Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) in Houston. The agreement forges the first formal partnership between NASA OSTEM and Scouting America. It will [...]

NASA to Explore Additional Methods to Send VIPER to Moon

By |2025-05-07T10:19:00-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Following an evaluation of partnership proposals to land a water-seeking robot on the lunar surface, NASA is instead opting to explore alternative approaches to deliver its VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Explorer Rover) rover to the Moon. NASA announced Wednesday it is canceling its Lunar Volatiles Science Partnership Announcement for Partnership Proposals solicitation, which sought opportunities [...]

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