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NASA Releases its Spinoff 2025 Publication 

By |2025-03-12T08:06:00-04:00March 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The 2025 Spinoff publication features more than 40 commercial infusions of NASA technologies. Credit: NASA  The work NASA conducts in space leads to ongoing innovations benefiting people on Earth. Some of these latest technologies, which have been successfully transferred from NASA to the commercial sector, are featured in the latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff 2025 [...]

NASA Glenn Welcomes Spring 2025 Interns

By |2025-03-12T08:06:00-04:00March 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Students from colleges and universities across the country gather to start their adventure as spring interns at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Credit: NASA/Jef Janis  NASA’s Glenn Research Center is hosting 45 spring interns at its Cleveland and Sandusky, Ohio, campuses through May 16. This group represents 43 universities across the country, spanning from [...]

NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun, Universe’s Beginning

By |2025-03-12T01:20:00-04:00March 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 11, 2025.Credit: SpaceX NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way [...]

Sols 4475-4476: Even the Best-Laid Plans

By |2025-03-11T21:19:00-04:00March 11th, 2025|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 Mars Home 3 min [...]

NASA Continues BioNutrients Space-Fermented Food Research

By |2025-03-11T17:29:00-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams displays a set of BioNutrients production packs during an experiment aboard the International Space Station. The experiment uses engineered yeast to produce nutrients and vitamins to support future astronaut health.NASA NASA’s BioNutrients series of experiments is [...]

Human System Risk Board

By |2025-03-11T16:48:00-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Risks Concept Risk is inherent in human spaceflight. However, specific risks can and should be understood, managed, and mitigated to reduce threats posed to astronauts. Risk management in the context of human spaceflight can be viewed as a trade-based system. The relevant evidence in [...]

Risk to Vehicle Crew Egress Capability and Task Performance as Applied to Earth and Extraterrestrial Landings

By |2025-03-11T16:48:00-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut Douglas Hurley is helped out of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship after he and NASA astronaut Robert Behnken landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. [...]

Risk to Crew Health Due to Electrical Shock (Electrical Shock Risk)

By |2025-03-11T16:48:00-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The space shuttle Endeavour is seen on launch pad 39a as a storm passes by prior to the rollback of the Rotating Service Structure (RSS), Thursday, April 28, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. During the 14-day mission, Endeavour and the [...]

Risk of Urinary Retention

By |2025-03-11T16:47:00-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Astronaut Mark Vande Hei swaps out components on an advanced new toilet installed inside the International Space Station.NASA Exposure to the altered gravity in the spaceflight environment may cause physiological changes. One of these changes is the inability to completely empty the bladder or [...]

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