2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) On the space shuttle Columbia flight STS-93, the first lithium-ion battery flown on a human spaceflight was used to power a video camera. While working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Judy Jeevarajan devised the testing processes to ensure the battery was safe to use [...]

3 min read NASA/JAXA’s XRISM Mission Captures Unmatched Data With Just 36 Pixels At a time when phone cameras are capable of taking snapshots with millions of pixels, an instrument on the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) satellite captures revolutionary science with just 36 of them. “That may sound impossible, but it’s [...]

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Brad Flick, center director at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, amplifies the center’s safety commitment during Safety Day on April 2, 2024, at NASA Armstrong.NASA/Steve Freeman NASA works on projects that often have never been done, or perhaps the way they are being done has [...]

“When people begin their careers, they start as an individual contributor. You’re a technical expert; your worth and your value are based on what you know and what you can do as an individual.  “Then there’s an interesting journey that you have to take from an individual contributor to a leader of people. I [...]

6 Min Read NASA’s Webb Maps Weather on Planet 280 Light-Years Away This artist’s concept shows what the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b could look like. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant [...]

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Members of Team Miles with the CubeSat developed during the NASA Cube Quest Challenge. From left to right: Alex Wingeier, Don Smith, Wes Faler.Image credit: Team Miles In its pursuit to develop groundbreaking technologies to explore space and benefit life on Earth, NASA invites [...]

Gateway’s Lunar I-Hab and HALO modules under construction at a Thales Alenia Space industrial plant in Turin, Italy. ESA/Stephane Corvaja The Artemis IV mission is taking shape with major hardware for Gateway, humanity’s first space station to orbit the Moon, progressing in Turin, Italy. NASA will launch HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost), center of image [...]

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is getting ready for the next big step in the evolution of its main campus in Huntsville, Alabama. Through a series of multi-year infrastructure projects, Marshall is optimizing its footprint to assure its place as a vibrant and vital [...]

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft approaches the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will launch aboard Starliner on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test.Credits: NASA NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, which will carry NASA [...]

Rising from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33, which resides roughly 1300 light-years away. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. Webb’s new view focuses on the [...]