Boeing teams close the hatch the Starliner spacecraft ahead of launch of NASA, Boeing’s Crew Flight Test on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Photo credit: NASA+ Just one hour remains ahead of liftoff of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station. Launch weather officers with the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron predict [...]
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrive Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ahead of liftoff scheduled for 12:25 p.m. ET Saturday, June 1, 2024. Wilmore and Williams are the first to launch aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of [...]
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on Saturday, June 1, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew members are on their way to load up into Boeing’s Astrovan for the trip to the launch pad [...]
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at sunrise on the launch pad of Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, June 1, 2024, ahead of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. Photo credit: NASA+ In less than four hours, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni [...]
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams perform checks of their Boeing spacesuits in the crew suit-up room inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Photo credit: NASA+ NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are being [...]
1 min read NASA’s Hubble Temporarily Pauses Science This image of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was taken on May 19, 2009 after deployment during Servicing Mission 4. NASA NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode May 24 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue, suspending science operations. Hubble’s instruments are stable, and the telescope [...]
This artist’s concept features one of multiple initial possible design options for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab NASA announced Friday it selected three industry proposals to help develop technologies for future large space telescopes and plan for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory mission concept, which could be [...]
NASA and mission partners participate in a prelaunch briefing for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Friday, May 31, 2024. From left to right at the dais are Derrol Nail, NASA Communications; Jim Free, NASA associate administrator; Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; Dana Weigel, manager, NASA’s [...]
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Earth Observer Earth and Climate Earth Observer Home Editor’s Corner Feature Articles News In Memoriams Science in the News More Meeting Summaries Archives 16 min read Summary of the 2023 Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting Severine Fournier, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, severine.fournier@jpl.nasa.gov Joshua Willis, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, joshua.k.willis@jpl.nasa.gov Introduction The annual Ocean Surface Topography [...]
