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Sols 4437-4438: Coordinating our Dance Moves

By |2025-01-29T04:26:00-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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How to Fly NASA’s Orion Spacecraft

By |2025-01-28T14:37:00-05:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

During the Artemis II mission to the Moon, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover will take control and manually fly Orion for the first time, evaluating the handling qualities of the spacecraft during a key test called the proximity operations demonstration. This is how to fly Orion. On NASA’s Artemis II test flight, [...]

Wolf Moon in Washington

By |2025-01-28T14:15:00-05:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Bill Ingalls A NASA photographer captured the full “wolf” moon rising over the Lincoln Memorial and Memorial Bridge on Jan. 13, 2025. The Maine Farmers’ Almanac began publishing Native American names for full moons in the 1930s. Over time, these names have become widely known and used. According to this almanac, the full moon in [...]

NASA Juno Mission Spots Most Powerful Volcanic Activity on Io to Date

By |2025-01-28T11:22:00-05:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A massive hotspot — larger the Earth’s Lake Superior — can be seen just to the right of Io’s south pole in this annotated image taken by the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA’s Juno on Dec. 27, 2024, during the spacecraft’s flyby of the [...]

NASA’s PUNCH Mission Tests Solar Arrays Before Launch

By |2025-01-28T10:38:00-05:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Crews conduct a solar array deployment test on the spacecraft of NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites at Astrotech Space Operations located inside Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.USSF 30th Space Wing/Antonio Ramos Technicians supporting NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission deployed [...]

Langley’s Wonder Changes The World, 2023 Annual Report Spotlights Contributions

By |2025-01-28T10:02:00-05:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

In 2023, NASA Langley’s workforce brought imagination to reality with innovative technological development and a continued commitment to tackling some of the tough challenges that both NASA and the nation face. NASA At NASA, we aspire to know more, dig deeper, climb higher and along the way we are asking, ‘What if?’,” said NASA Langley [...]

2024 Annual Report Highlights Langley’s Wonder at Work

By |2025-01-28T09:00:00-05:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA At NASA’s Langley Research Center, we are proud of our world-renowned role in innovating and improving the way we fly, explore, and understand our universe.” said NASA Langley leadership in an introductory message to Langley’s 2024 Annual Report. “The passion, dedication, and expertise of our workforce is bringing solutions to the nation’s toughest [...]

NASA to Preview Sky-Mapping Space Telescope Ahead of Launch

By |2025-01-27T16:37:00-05:00January 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory was photographed at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in November 2024 after completing environmental testing. The spacecraft’s three concentric cones help direct heat and light away from the telescope and other components, keeping them cool. Credit: BAE Systems NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 31, [...]

Station Science Top News: Jan. 24, 2025

By |2025-01-27T15:13:00-05:00January 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Reducing reliance on resupply missions Resupply of life support elements such as air, water, food, clothing, and hygiene items will be impractical on missions to the Moon and beyond. This research assessed current use and resupply of these elements on the International Space Station and outlines technologies needed for sustained human presence in space, such [...]

Get My Good Side

By |2025-01-27T14:32:00-05:00January 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Ben Smegelsky A NASA photographer took this portrait of a curious sandhill crane on March 24, 2021, near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Sandhill cranes are just one of the hundreds of types of birds that call the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which shares space with NASA Kennedy, [...]

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