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NASA’s Chevron Technology Quiets the Skies

By |2025-03-11T10:32:00-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A chevron nozzle is installed on NASA’s Learjet for a mid-March 2001 flight test at Lorain Country Airport to verify that in an emergency, the aircraft could be flown using only the experimental engine. Credit: NASA/Marvin Smith Shortly after dawn on March 27, 2001, NASA pilot Bill Rieke took off from an airfield just outside [...]

Team Preps to Study Dark Energy via Exploding Stars With NASA’s Roman

By |2025-03-11T10:00:00-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This video sparkles with synthetic supernovae from the OpenUniverse project, which simulates observations from NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. More than a million exploding stars flare into visibility and then slowly fade away. The true brightness of each transient event has been magnified by a factor of 10,000 for visibility, and no background [...]

NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble

By |2025-03-11T09:09:09-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, featured here, was captured in spectacular detail in an image taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Visible are dark filamentary dust [...]

NASA Selects Three University Teams to Participate in Flight Research 

By |2025-03-11T05:00:00-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA / Lillian Gipson NASA has selected three university teams to help solve 21st century aviation challenges that could transform the skies above our communities.  As part of NASA’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI), both graduate and undergraduate students on faculty-led university teams will contribute [...]

About Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles

By |2025-03-10T17:33:00-04:00March 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist’s concept of drones flying in an urban environment near large city skyscrapers.NASA / Maria Werries Remotely piloted aircraft could transform the way we transport people and goods and provide our communities with better access to vital services, like medical supply deliveries and efficient [...]

NASA, Partners to Conduct Space Station Research During Expedition 73

By |2025-03-10T17:28:00-04:00March 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read NASA, Partners to Conduct Space Station Research During Expedition 73 NASA NASA astronauts are gearing up for a scientific mission aboard the International Space Station. Expedition 73 NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will launch in March [...]

40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Atlantis Makes its Public Debut 

By |2025-03-10T16:01:00-04:00March 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On March 6, 1985, NASA’s newest space shuttle, Atlantis, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at the Rockwell International manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California. Under construction for three years, Atlantis joined NASA’s other three space-worthy orbiters, Columbia, Challenger, and Discovery, and atmospheric test vehicle Enterprise. Officials from NASA, Rockwell, and other organizations attended [...]

Artemis II Upper Stage Delivered to Kennedy

By |2025-03-10T14:29:00-04:00March 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance Photo Credit: NASA/Skip Williams NASA received the upper stage for the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Mar. 9 supplied by Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA). Known as the interim cryogenic propulsion stage, it arrived [...]

NASA’s Dawn Sees Crescent Ceres

By |2025-03-10T14:18:00-04:00March 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres’ south polar region on May 17, 2017. Launched on Sept. 27, 2007, Dawn was NASA’s first truly interplanetary spaceship. The mission featured extended stays at two extraterrestrial bodies:  giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, both in the debris-strewn main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft’s [...]

NASA Ames Science Directorate: Stars of the Month – March 2025

By |2025-03-10T13:58:00-04:00March 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Jessica Kong, Josh Alwood, and Sam Kim. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond. Space Science and Astrobiology Star: Jessica Kong Jessica Kong is serving [...]

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