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Sols 4502-4504: Sneaking Past Devil’s Gate

By |2025-04-07T15:33:00-04:00April 7th, 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 [...]

Connected Learning Ecosystems: Educators Gather to Empower Learners and Themselves

By |2025-04-07T15:20:00-04:00April 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Connected Learning Ecosystems:… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   5 min read Connected Learning Ecosystems: Educators Gather to Empower Learners and Themselves Many educators would agree that despite working and communicating with dozens, even hundreds, of people each [...]

Sols 4500-4501: Bedrock With a Side of Sand

By |2025-04-07T14:40:00-04:00April 7th, 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 [...]

From FIRST Robotics to NASA Rockets: Angel Saenz’s Journey to White Sands

By |2025-04-07T13:52:00-04:00April 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Long before joining NASA’s Test and Evaluation Support Team contract in October 2024, Angel Saenz was already an engineer at heart. A STEM education program at his high school helped unlock that passion, setting him on a path that would eventually lead to NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Angel Saenz [...]

Gateway’s First Habitation Module Arrives Stateside

By |2025-04-07T13:18:00-04:00April 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Josh Valcarcel From the mountains of Turin to the deserts of Arizona, a core element of Gateway, humanity’s first lunar space station, is now one step closer to the Moon. As seen in this April 1, 2025, photo, HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost), Gateway’s first pressurized module and one of its foundational elements, recently arrived [...]

NASA+ to Stream Nomination Hearing for Next Agency Administrator

By |2025-04-07T11:13:00-04:00April 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA Jared Isaacman is set to participate in a hearing to become the next NASA administrator at 10 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 9, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The nomination hearing will take place at Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. The agency will stream the hearing on [...]

Back to Earth, Forward to the Future: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Returns  

By |2025-04-07T10:55:00-04:00April 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

After months of groundbreaking research, exploration, and teamwork aboard the International Space Station, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 has returned to Earth.   NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, splashed down safely on March 18, 2025, as a pod of dolphins circled the Dragon spacecraft near Tallahassee, Florida.  [...]

NASA Leaders to Participate in 2025 Space Symposium in Colorado

By |2025-04-04T14:12:00-04:00April 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro and acting Associate Administrator Vanessa Wyche will lead the agency’s delegation at the 40th Space Symposium, Monday, April 7 through Thursday, April 10, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Petro will join Space Foundation Chief Executive Officer Heather Pringle for a fireside chat to discuss NASA’s current priorities and partnerships [...]

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim

By |2025-04-04T14:04:00-04:00April 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA astronaut Jonny Kim poses for a portrait while wearing a spacesuit on July 17, 2024. In his first mission, Kim will serve as a flight engineer during Expedition 72/73 on the International Space Station. He will launch aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft on Tuesday, April 8. Chosen by NASA in 2017, Kim [...]

NASA Selects Finalist Teams for Student Human Lander Challenge

By |2025-04-04T13:00:00-04:00April 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA has selected 12 student teams to develop solutions for storing and transferring the super-cold liquid propellants needed for future long-term exploration beyond Earth orbit. The agency’s 2025 Human Lander Challenge is designed to inspire and engage the next generation of engineers and scientists as NASA and its partners prepare to send astronauts to [...]

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