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NASA Invites Public Input on Low Earth Orbit Microgravity Strategy

By |2024-08-26T12:50:00-04:00August 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A waxing gibbous moon rises over the Indian Ocean as the International Space Station orbited 266 miles above.Credit: NASA As NASA and its partners continue to conduct groundbreaking research aboard the International Space Station, the agency announced Monday it is seeking U.S. industry, academia, international partners, and other stakeholders’ feedback on newly developed goals and [...]

Sols 4284–4286: Environmental Science Extravaganza

By |2024-08-26T10:47:00-04:00August 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions The Solar System The Sun [...]

Sols 4282-4283: Bumping Away from Kings Canyon

By |2024-08-26T10:40:00-04:00August 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions The Solar System The Sun [...]

Solar Panels for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Pass Key Tests

By |2024-08-26T10:30:00-04:00August 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Both versions of the Solar Array Sun Shield for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope appear in this photo, taken in the largest clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The flight version lies flat in the foreground, while the qualification assembly stands upright in the background. The flight panels will shade the mission’s [...]

Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren’t Too Big for Their Britches After All

By |2024-08-26T10:00:00-04:00August 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren’t Too Big for Their Britches After All This image shows a small portion of the field observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. The full image appears below. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, S. Finkelstein [...]

Hubble Captures Unique Ultraviolet View of a Spectacular Star Cluster

By |2024-08-26T09:41:00-04:00August 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Hubble Captures Unique Ultraviolet View of a Spectacular Star Cluster NASA, ESA, and C. Murray (Space Telescope Science Institute); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Roughly 210,000 light-years away, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of our Milky Way galaxy’s closest neighbors. In fact, this small galaxy is [...]

The Making of Our Alien Earth: The Undersea Volcanoes of Santorini, Greece

By |2024-08-24T15:01:00-04:00August 24th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

14 Min Read The Making of Our Alien Earth: The Undersea Volcanoes of Santorini, Greece The expedition team and crew prepare to deploy Nereid Under Ice (NUI) into the sea. The following expedition marks the third installment of NASA Astrobiology’s fieldwork series, the newly rebranded Our Alien Earth, streaming on NASA+. Check out all [...]

NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew

By |2024-08-24T13:32:00-04:00August 24th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule docked to the Harmony module’s forward port at the International Space Station on July 3, 2024.Photo credit: NASA NASA will return Boeing’s Starliner to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the spacecraft, the agency announced Saturday during a news conference. The uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to continue gathering testing [...]

NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew 

By |2024-08-24T13:25:00-04:00August 24th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership participate in a live news conference on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston where they provided an update about NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test.Credit: NASA NASA will return Boeing’s Starliner to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the spacecraft, the [...]

August 2024 Transformer of the Month: Selina Salgado

By |2024-08-23T15:23:00-04:00August 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

As a Human Resource Business Partner at NASA Headquarters, Selina Salgado describes her job as helping with “all things people” for the enterprise. By facilitating technological solutions to human resources (HR) challenges and needs, she excels at an often-underestimated aspect of Digital Transformation (DT): the interpersonal side. As a champion of community building, knowledge [...]

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