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NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 91 Launch, Space Station Docking

By |2025-02-24T17:55:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress spacecraft pictured on Aug. 13, 2024, from the International Space Station.Credit: NASA NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft delivering approximately three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 91 spacecraft is scheduled to [...]

Venus Blows Off Some Steam

By |2025-02-24T17:19:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Tall plumes of white vapor rise from the rocky Venusian surface in this April 19, 1977, artist’s concept.NASA/Rick Guidice Tall plumes of white vapor rise from the rocky Venusian surface in this April 19, 1977, artist’s concept. A little over a year later, NASA’s Pioneer Venus 1 would launch as the first of a two-spacecraft [...]

Ames’ Own: Wayne R. Johnson Elected to the 2025 National Academy of Engineering Class

By |2025-02-24T15:09:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Wayne Johnson, who in 2012 earned the highest rank of Fellow at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, is known worldwide as an expert in rotary wing technology. He was among those who provided help in testing Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars helicopter.NASA / Eric James NASA Ames’ Wayne Johnson Elected to 2025 Class of New Members [...]

NASA Invites Media to Observe FireSense Prescribed Burn at Kennedy

By |2025-02-24T15:00:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Drone pilot Brayden Chamberlain flashes a “good to go” signal to the command tent, indicating that the NASA Alta X quadcopter is prepped for takeoff during a FireSense uncrewed aerial system (UAS) Technology Demonstration test in 2023 in Missoula, Montana. The instruments on board collected data on wind speed and direction, humidity, temperature, and pressure.NASA/Milan [...]

NASA Names Acting Associate Administrator, More Leadership Changes

By |2025-02-24T14:34:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA logo. (Credit: NASA) NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro announced Monday Vanessa Wyche will serve as the acting associate administrator for the agency at NASA Headquarters in Washington, effective immediately. Wyche, who had been the director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, is detailed as Petro’s senior advisor leading the agency’s center directors and [...]

NASA Invites Media to Attend Alabama Space Day 2025

By |2025-02-24T12:31:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A NASA exhibit of SLS (Space Launch System), which will return humanity to the Moon, is displayed in front of the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery during Alabama Space Day 2023 on April 11, 2023. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the U.S. [...]

NASA Marshall Reflects on 65 Years of Ingenuity, Teamwork 

By |2025-02-24T10:20:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Min Read NASA Marshall Reflects on 65 Years of Ingenuity, Teamwork  NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is celebrating its 65-year legacy of ingenuity and service to the U.S. space program – and the expansion of its science, engineering, propulsion, and human spaceflight portfolio with each new decade since the NASA field center [...]

Station Science Top News: Feb. 21, 2025

By |2025-02-24T07:00:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Improving space-based pharmaceutical research View of the Ice Cubes experiment #6 (Kirara) floating in the Columbus European Laboratory module aboard the International Space Station.UAE (United Arab Emirates)/Sultan Alneyadi Researchers found differences in the stability and degradation of the anti-Covid drug Remdesivir in space and on Earth on its first research flight, but not on a [...]

NASA University Research Program Makes First Award to a Community College Project

By |2025-02-24T05:00:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Project F.I.R.E. team, part of Falcon Research Labs and current students at Cerritos Community College in California, is researching the use of drones to extinguish fires as part of a NASA research award called the University Student Research Challenge. From left, Logan Stahl, [...]

NASA Awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope Launch Services Contract

By |2025-02-21T17:35:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth. The firm fixed price launch service task order is being awarded under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity NASA Launch [...]

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