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A Dust Devil Photobombs Perseverance!

By |2025-05-29T21:23:00-04:00May 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [...]

NASA Tech Gives Treadmill Users a ‘Boost’  

By |2025-05-29T16:17:00-04:00May 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Boost Treadmills cofounder Sean Whalen runs on the Boost 2. The treadmill uses air pressure to counter gravity, making running possible for people with injuries and other conditions.Credit: Boost Treadmills LLC The antigravity treadmill, which has benefits in space and on Earth, was pioneered [...]

45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group

By |2025-05-29T16:07:00-04:00May 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Nearly all of NASA’s ninth class of astronaut candidates, along with two European trainees, poses for photos in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on July 7, 1980. Group 9 was announced on May 29, 1980; the candidates would go on to make history in [...]

NASA Tests New Ways to Stick the Landing in Challenging Terrain

By |2025-05-29T15:08:00-04:00May 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, particularly for future crewed missions. To support this, NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is pursuing [...]

Integrated Testing on Horizon for Artemis II Launch Preparations

By |2025-05-29T11:45:00-04:00May 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Teams responsible for preparing and launching Artemis II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set to begin a series of integrated tests to get ready for the mission. With the upper stage of the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) integrated with other elements of the rocket, engineers are set to start the [...]

NASA’s MAVEN Makes First Observation of Atmospheric Sputtering at Mars

By |2025-05-29T11:00:00-04:00May 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

After a decade of searching, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere Volatile Evolution) mission has, for the first time, reported a direct observation of an elusive atmospheric escape process called sputtering that could help answer longstanding questions about the history of water loss on Mars. Scientists have known for a long time, through an abundance of evidence, [...]

NASA Langley Uses Height, Gravity to Test Long, Flexible Booms

By |2025-05-29T10:52:00-04:00May 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Researchers look at a bend that occurred in the 94-foot triangular, rollable and collapsible boom during an off-axis compression test.NASA/David C. Bowman Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have developed a technique to test long, flexible, composite booms for use in [...]

Cosmic Dawn Screening

By |2025-05-28T15:15:00-04:00May 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Join NASA for a free screening of Cosmic Dawn, the incredible true story of the James Webb Space Telescope–humanity’s mission to unveil the early universe, against all odds. Cosmic Dawn is the incredible true story of the James Webb Space Telescope – humanity’s largest and most powerful space telescope – on a mission to [...]

NASA Marks Milestones for Artemis III Orion Spacecraft at Kennedy

By |2025-05-28T12:23:00-04:00May 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Technicians work on Artemis III Orion crew module on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians will continue assembling and testing the crew module and service module before integration in 2026. NASA/Rad Sinyak NASA continues to make steady progress preparing the [...]

Eccentric ‘Star’ Defies Easy Explanation, NASA’s Chandra Finds

By |2025-05-28T11:25:00-04:00May 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/CalTech/IPAC; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects. As described in our press release, a team of astronomers combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray [...]

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