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Liftoff! Firefly Lunar Lander Begins Journey to the Moon

By |2025-01-15T01:14:00-05:00January 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. The Blue Ghost lander [...]

Live Countdown Coverage Begins for First Firefly Commercial Lunar Flight 

By |2025-01-15T00:30:00-05:00January 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander prepares for a launch to the Moon on January 14 from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. The Blue Ghost lander will carry 10 NASA science and [...]

Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Poster

By |2025-01-14T18:42:00-05:00January 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Roman Coronagraph Instrument will greatly advance our ability to directly image exoplanets, or planets and disks around other stars. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, a technology demonstration designed and built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will fly aboard NASA’s next flagship astrophysics observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Coronagraphs work by blocking light [...]

Roman Space Telescope’s Coronagraph Instrument

By |2025-01-14T18:42:00-05:00January 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Learn about Roman’s Coronagraph Instrument with this poster. How many related elements can you find in this poster? Check the artwork key below for the answers.NASA, JPL NASA’s Roman Coronagraph Instrument will greatly advance our ability to directly image exoplanets, or planets and disks around other stars. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, a technology demonstration designed [...]

Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument Poster

By |2025-01-14T18:10:00-05:00January 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI), the primary instrument aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 300-megapixel visible and infrared camera that will allow scientists to perform revolutionary astrophysics surveys.   This specialized camera detects faint light across the cosmos and will be used to study a wide range of astrophysics topics including the expansion [...]

Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument

By |2025-01-14T18:10:00-05:00January 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Learn about Roman’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI) with this poster. How many related elements can you find in this poster? Check the artwork key below for the answers.NASA, JPL The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI), the primary instrument aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 300-megapixel visible and infrared camera that will allow scientists to [...]

NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas

By |2025-01-14T14:15:00-05:00January 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Webb Webb News Latest News Latest Images Blog (offsite) 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 Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Observatory Overview Launch Orbit Mirrors [...]

Best of 2024: Dinosaur Prepared to Safely Watch Solar Eclipse

By |2025-01-14T13:42:00-05:00January 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Joel Kowsky An adult Alamosaurus sports eclipse glasses outside of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, on April 6, 2024. Two days later, the total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the [...]

Ten NASA Science, Tech Instruments Flying to Moon on Firefly Lander

By |2025-01-14T12:02:00-05:00January 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander getting encapsulated in SpaceX’s rocket fairing ahead of the planned liftoff for 1:11 a.m. EST Jan. 15 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in FloridaSpaceX As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the agency is preparing to fly ten instruments aboard [...]

NASA Deputy Administrator to Receive 2025 National Space Award

By |2025-01-14T10:28:00-05:00January 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy gives keynote remarks during the 37th Space Symposium, Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) The Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation has selected NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, a retired United States Air Force colonel and former NASA astronaut, to receive the 2025 [...]

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