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Sols 4527-4528: ‘Boxwork Ahoy!’

By |2025-05-04T18:48:00-04:00May 4th, 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 2 min [...]

Back to Earth

By |2025-05-02T14:30:00-04:00May 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Jonny Kim The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking on April 19, 2025. Three hours later, the spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan, returning astronaut Don Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner to Earth. While aboard the International Space Station, Pettit conducted hundreds of hours of [...]

President Trump’s FY26 Budget Revitalizes Human Space Exploration

By |2025-05-02T11:30:00-04:00May 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA The Trump-Vance Administration released toplines of the President’s budget for Fiscal Year 2026 on Friday. The budget accelerates human space exploration of the Moon and Mars with a fiscally responsible portfolio of missions. “This proposal includes investments to simultaneously pursue exploration of the Moon and Mars while still prioritizing critical science and technology [...]

NASA Stennis Employee Contributes to Innovative Work

By |2025-05-02T10:08:00-04:00May 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Robert Williams is a senior mechanical design engineer and the structures subject matter expert in the Engineering and Test Directorate at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.NASA/Danny Nowlin Living up to, and maintaining, the standard of excellence associated with NASA is what drives Robert Williams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. A native [...]

Rocket Upper Stage Integrated as Preparations for Artemis II Continue

By |2025-05-02T08:27:00-04:00May 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program begin integrating the interim cryogenic propulsion stage to the SLS (Space Launch System) launch vehicle stage adapter on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. The four-story propulsion system, built by Boeing and ULA (United Launch Alliance), is powered by an RL10 engine that will enable the Orion spacecraft to build up enough [...]

NASA Set to Fly South Korean CubeSat on Artemis II Test Flight

By |2025-05-02T08:05:00-04:00May 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

NASA and the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) signed an agreement May 2 for KASA to fly a CubeSat on NASA’s Artemis II test flight next year. K-Rad Cube will use a dosimeter made of material designed to mimic human tissue to measure space radiation and assess biological effects at various altitudes across the Van [...]

Hubble Images a Peculiar Spiral

By |2025-05-02T07:00:00-04:00May 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Begins Capturing Entire Sky

By |2025-05-01T17:18:00-04:00May 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s SPHEREx mission is observing the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, or wavelengths of light not visible to the human eye. This image shows a section of sky in one wavelength (3.29 microns), revealing a cloud of dust made of a molecule similar [...]

NASA’s Chandra Diagnoses Cause of Fracture in Galactic “Bone”

By |2025-05-01T15:05:00-04:00May 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern Univ./F. Yusef-Zadeh et al; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKat; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic “bone” in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes. The bone appears to have been struck by a fast-moving, rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar. Neutron stars are the densest known [...]

ARMD Research Solicitations (Updated May 1)

By |2025-05-01T13:00:00-04:00May 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

9 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA / Lillian Gipson/Getty Images THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED ON MAY 1, 2025 (Added Advanced Air Vehicles Program Fellowship Opportunities.) This Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) solicitations page compiles the opportunities to collaborate with NASA’s aeronautical innovators and/or contribute to their research to enable [...]

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