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Sharing PLANETS Curriculum with Out-of-School Time Educators

By |2025-02-25T13:33:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Sharing PLANETS Curriculum… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   2 min read Sharing PLANETS Curriculum with Out-of-School Time Educators Out of school time (OST) educators work with youth in afterschool, community, and camp programs. Science, Technology, Engineering, and [...]

Diamonds from NASA’s X-59

By |2025-02-25T12:19:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s X-59 lights up the night sky with its unique Mach diamonds, also known as shock diamonds, during maximum afterburner testing at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The test demonstrates the engine’s ability to generate the thrust required for supersonic flight, advancing NASA’s Quesst mission.Lockheed Martin Corporation/Gary Tice NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research [...]

NASA’s Europa Clipper Uses Mars to Go the Distance

By |2025-02-25T11:44:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Europa Clipper as it flies by Mars, using the planet’s gravitational force to alter the spacecraft’s path on its way to the Jupiter system. NASA/JPL-Caltech The orbiter bound for Jupiter’s moon Europa will investigate whether the moon is habitable, [...]

Is There Potential for Life on Europa? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 52

By |2025-02-25T10:11:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) That’s a great question. And it’s a question that NASA will seek to answer with the Europa Clipper spacecraft. Europa is a moon of Jupiter. It’s about the same size as Earth’s Moon, but its surface looks very different. The surface of Europa is [...]

Science in Orbit: Results Published on Space Station Research in 2024

By |2025-02-25T10:00:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read Science in Orbit: Results Published on Space Station Research in 2024 NASA and its international partners have hosted research experiments and fostered collaboration aboard the International Space Station for over 25 years. More than 4,000 investigations have been conducted, resulting in over 4,400 research publications with 361 in 2024 alone. Space [...]

NASA Prepares Gateway Lunar Space Station for Journey to Moon

By |2025-02-25T08:03:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Propulsion Bus Module of Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element undergoes assembly and installations at Maxar Space Systems in Palo Alto, California.Maxar Space Systems NASA’s Artemis IV astronauts will be the first to inhabit the Gateway lunar space station, opening the door to greater exploration of the Moon and paving the way to Mars. Gateway’s [...]

NASA: New Study on Why Mars is Red Supports Potentially Habitable Past

By |2025-02-25T05:15:00-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A new international study partially funded by NASA on how Mars got its iconic red color adds to evidence that Mars had a cool but wet and potentially habitable climate in its ancient past. Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into [...]

NASA astronaut Anne McClain smiles and high fives SpaceX employees

By |2025-02-24T19:09:01-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

jsc2025e011329 (Feb. 24, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission Anne McClain smiles and high fives SpaceX employees during a sendoff at the company’s facility in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX

Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology

By |2025-02-24T18:26:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology A view of the Moon from Earth, zooming up to IM-2's landing site at Mons Mouton, which is visible in amateur telescopes. Credits: NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio NASA is sending revolutionary technologies to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ second lunar delivery as part of the [...]

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 [...]

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