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NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Robotics Competition 

By |2026-05-11T15:11:00-04:00May 11th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Students from the United States Military Academy (West Point), dressed in safety gear, prepare to enter the mining arena with their robotic miner during NASA’s LUNABOTICS competition on May 24, 2022, at the Center for Space Education near the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. More than 35 teams from around the U.S. have [...]

Joint Earth Observation Mission Quality Assessment Framework – Optical Guidelines Documents Released

By |2026-05-11T14:34:00-04:00May 11th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

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Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center

By |2026-05-11T10:00:00-04:00May 11th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Roman Home About Roman Mission Overview Why is Roman Important? Who is Nancy Grace Roman? Frequently Asked Questions Mission Timeline Partners Meet the Team Science Overview Dark Energy Dark Matter Exoplanets Large Area Near-Infrared Surveys Observing with Roman General Investigator Program For Scientists Observatory Roman Observatory Wide Field Instrument Coronagraph Instrument Interactive Telescope Diagram [...]

NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir

By |2026-05-11T09:58:00-04:00May 11th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir sits for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Sept. 23, 2025. This photo was chosen as one of the 2025 NASA Photographer of the Year finalists. Meir launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station in February 2026 with fellow NASA astronaut [...]

NASA’s SpaceX 34th Commercial Resupply Mission Overview

By |2026-05-08T18:50:00-04:00May 8th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX 34th commercial resupply mission will launch on the company’s Dragon spacecraft on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to deliver research and supplies to the International Space Station.NASA NASA and SpaceX are targeting a mid-May launch to deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.  Loaded with about 6,500 pounds of supplies, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will lift off [...]

NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Mars During Gravity Assist Approach

By |2026-05-08T14:11:00-04:00May 8th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 Min Read NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Mars During Gravity Assist Approach PIA26750 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Psyche Mission… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Mars During Gravity Assist Approach JPEG (132.38 KB) PIA26750 Figure A JPEG (105.92 KB) Description This [...]

I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas

By |2026-05-08T13:36:00-04:00May 8th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas Listen to this audio excerpt from Anton Kiriwas, senior technical integration manager for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio element. When Anton Kiriwas first spotted an image of the Moon and Mars hanging over a job fair [...]

NASA, Industry Advance High Performance Spaceflight Computing

By |2026-05-08T13:05:00-04:00May 8th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) High Performance Spaceflight Computing System on ChipNASA/Ryan Lannom For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that coordinate and execute the functions needed to support mission success. Space computing originated in the 1960s with the Apollo Guidance Computers, which were pivotal for guidance, [...]

Glowing Views from the Space Station

By |2026-05-08T11:21:00-04:00May 8th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured the Milky Way rising above Earth’s atmospheric glow on April 13, 2026, while aboard a SpaceX Dragon docked to the International Space Station. This atmospheric glow is also called airglow. It occurs when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit light to shed their [...]

NASA Names Brian Hughes to Launch Operations Role

By |2026-05-08T10:00:00-04:00May 8th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

During his tenure as chief of staff, NASA’s Brian Hughes is seen during a NASA town hall event, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington.Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA announced Friday that Brian Hughes will return to the agency as senior director of launch operations, based at the agency’s [...]

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