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Celebrating 25 Years of Continuous Human Presence Aboard the International Space Station 

By |2025-07-25T15:53:00-04:00July 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Jonny Kim NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. A truly global endeavor, the International Space Station has been visited by more than 280 people from 23 countries and a variety of international and commercial spacecraft. The unique microgravity laboratory has hosted more than 4,000 experiments [...]

NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 33rd Resupply Launch to Space Station

By |2025-07-25T13:18:00-04:00July 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Dragon spacecraft, stands in a vertical position at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.SpaceX Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This [...]

NASA Rehearses How to Measure X-59’s Noise Levels

By |2025-07-25T13:00:00-04:00July 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA test pilot Nils Larson walks around an F-15B research aircraft for a rehearsal flight supporting the agency’s Quesst mission at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The flight was part of a full-scale dress rehearsal for Phase 2 of the mission, [...]

NASA Invites Virtual Guests to SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Launch

By |2025-07-25T12:41:00-04:00July 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft launches NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station on Friday, March 14, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA/Aubrey Gemignani NASA invites the public to participate as virtual guests in the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International [...]

NASA Tests New Liquid Hydrogen Tank for Crewed Artemis Missions

By |2025-07-25T08:26:00-04:00July 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

NASA As teams get ready for the first crewed Artemis mission, which will take a crew of four around the Moon and back in 10 days, engineers with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program tested the new liquid hydrogen sphere, which holds one of the cryogenic propellants used to power the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, [...]

Hubble Spies Swirling Spiral

By |2025-07-25T07:00:00-04:00July 25th, 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 Welcomes Senegal as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

By |2025-07-24T16:41:00-04:00July 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

From left to right, Ambassador of Senegal to the United States Abdoul Wahab Haidara, Director General of the Senegalese space agency (ASES) Maram Kairé, NASA Chief of Staff Brian Hughes, and Department of State Bureau of African Affairs Senior Bureau Official Jonathan Pratt pose for a photo during an Artemis Accords signing ceremony Thursday, July [...]

NASA Sets Coverage for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 Launch, Docking

By |2025-07-24T16:11:00-04:00July 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station pictured during a training session at SpaceX facilities in Florida.Credit: SpaceX NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for 12:09 p.m. EDT, Thursday, July 31, [...]

First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral

By |2025-07-24T12:06:00-04:00July 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA The Bumper V-2 launches from Cape Canaveral in this July 24, 1950, photo. In the 75 years since this milestone, this facility has seen thousands of rockets take to the skies, destined for Earth orbit, the Moon, planets, and even beyond. From Cape Canaveral and from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida nearby, astronauts [...]

How NASA Is Testing AI to Make Earth-Observing Satellites Smarter

By |2025-07-24T10:59:00-04:00July 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Cloud cover can keep optical instruments on satellites from clearly capturing Earth’s surface. Still in testing, JPL’s Dynamic Targeting uses AI to avoid imaging clouds, yielding a higher proportion of usable data, and to focus on phenomena like this 2015 volcanic eruption in Indonesia [...]

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