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NASA JPL Shakes Things Up Testing Future Commercial Lunar Spacecraft

By |2025-12-16T14:43:00-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A time-lapse video recorded at JPL in October shows engineers and technicians moving and attaching a full-scale model of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander on [...]

Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry

By |2025-12-16T11:28:00-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An environmental chemist at NASA JSCNASA Ensuring Astronaut Safety Achieving safe exploration of space in vehicles that rely upon closed environmental systems to recycle air and water to sustain life and are operated in extremely remote locations is a major challenge. The Toxicology and [...]

Statistics and Data Science

By |2025-12-16T11:14:00-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Biostatistics and Data Science Enabling Successful Research A major aim of biomedical research at NASA is to acquire data to evaluate, understand, and assess the biomedical hazards of spaceflight and to develop effective countermeasures. Data Science (S&DS) personnel provide statistical support to groups within [...]

One of NASA’s Key Cameras Orbiting Mars Takes 100,000th Image

By |2025-12-16T11:00:00-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera. Over nearly 20 years, HiRISE has helped scientists understand how the Red Planet’s surface is constantly changing. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Mesas [...]

Maintaining the Gold Standard: The Future of Landsat Calibration and Validation

By |2025-12-16T10:59:00-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

By Amit Angal, Senior Engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center The Landsat Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) group helps uphold Landsat’s reputation as the gold standard of satellite imagery. They ensure that the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) aboard Landsats 8 and 9 provide high-quality scientific measurements to users around the [...]

Microbiology

By |2025-12-16T10:48:00-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Microbiology Laboratory at JSC NASA. Microorganisms and Spaceflight Spaceflight poses a risk of adverse health effects due to the interactions between microorganisms, their hosts, and their environment. The JSC Microbiology team addresses the benefits and risks related to microorganisms, including infectious disease, allergens, environmental [...]

Immunology and Virology

By |2025-12-16T10:36:00-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Immunology and Virology LabNASA Does Spaceflight Alter the Human Immune System? Getting sick on Earth is nothing to sneeze at, but for astronauts on deep space exploration missions, the risk for contracting diseases may be elevated due to altered immunity. The Human Health [...]

Exposure Guidelines (SMACs and SWEGs)

By |2025-12-16T10:35:00-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, Expedition 40 commander, holds the Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. (30 June 2014) NASA The JSC toxicologists establish guidelines for safe and acceptable levels of individual chemical contaminants in spacecraft air [...]

What’s Next for HLS

By |2025-12-16T10:33:00-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 PI Christopher Neigh shares milestones and a vision for the future In 2025, the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) program established itself as a cornerstone for global medium-resolution optical Earth observation and became one of NASA’s most downloaded products. The seamless, analysis-ready dataset is free for anyone to use and download [...]

NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation

By |2025-12-16T10:00:00-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA’s Webb Observes… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early Universe [...]

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