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NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 Mission to Space Station

By |2026-07-20T16:00:00-04:00July 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 members are pictured in their pressure suits seated inside a mockup Dragon spacecraft during a preflight training session at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are Roscosmos Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk. Credit: SpaceX NASA and its partners [...]

NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration

By |2026-07-20T14:54:00-04:00July 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A modified Saab 340B aircraft in flight powered in part by a hybrid electric system built by GE Aerospace, along with NASA, BETA Technologies, and Boeing.GE Aerospace An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by GE [...]

New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights  

By |2026-07-20T14:25:00-04:00July 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Science Agriculture Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at Work Earth Science at Work Technology and Innovation Powering Business Multimedia Image Collections Videos Data For Researchers About Us 6 Min Read New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science [...]

From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet

By |2026-07-20T11:47:00-04:00July 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This historic image — the first from the surface of Mars — confirmed that NASA’s Viking 1 lander had become the first spacecraft to touch down on the Red Planet on July 20, 1976. NASA/JPL-Caltech Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 landers [...]

Our First View of the Surface of Mars

By |2026-07-20T11:38:00-04:00July 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On the morning of July 20, 1976, roughly 40 minutes after mission controllers received word that the Viking 1 lander had successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, this photo gave us our first view from the surface of another planet.NASA/JPL “Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers [...]

NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits

By |2026-07-17T19:08:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits The 15-foot Structural Wing Experiment Evaluating Truss-bracing test article is fully installed in the Flight Loads Laboratory at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. The model is part of NASA’s research to develop technologies for [...]

The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches

By |2026-07-17T18:32:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 Min Read The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches PIA26586 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal The Growing Crescent of Mars… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches PNG (3.48 MB) Description This composite of [...]

Establishing a VTE Risk Score for Astronauts Algorithm

By |2026-07-17T17:01:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Spontaneous echo contrast (SEC) grade 3 with peripheral echogenicity.NASA/Pavela NASA/SP-20260005258/REV1 – NASA Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Spaceflight – Outcomes of Working Group Meeting – April 2026 In April 2026, NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) initiated a working group to review updated VTE case information, additional data gathered revealing altered [...]

NASA Awards Facilities Support Services Contract for Ames Research Center 

By |2026-07-17T16:34:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

CONTRACT RELEASE NASA has selected Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC to provide comprehensive operations, maintenance, and repair services for NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.  The Ames Facilities Support Services II contract ensures that the center’s historic and specialized facilities are properly maintained, fully operational, and capable of supporting the agency’s missions and tenant partners in the NASA Research Park.  The hybrid contract has a five-year period [...]

NASA’s Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula

By |2026-07-17T16:05:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) directly measured the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the “Lighthouse” Nebula, for the first time.X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./J. Dinsmore et al.; IXPE: NASA/MSFC/J. Dinsmore et al., Radio: CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA; Optical: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare This composite image, [...]

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