3 min read NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed NASA has confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s organic-rich moon Titan. The decision allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, followed by the construction and testing of the entire spacecraft and science instruments. Artist’s concept of Dragonfly soaring [...]
Katie Fisher stands in front of the HI-SEAS habitat in an EVA suit with Mauna Kea in the background. BioNutrients-3 Kefir Growth Experiment Completed During Analog Astronaut Mission From March 4 to 9 at the Hawaiian Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) located on Mauna Loa volcano on the Big Island, NASA Ames Scientist Katie [...]
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare for their mission in the company’s Starliner spacecraft simulator at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.Credits: NASA/Robert Markowitz NASA will host two media opportunities on Thursday, April 25, in preparation for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station. [...]
3 min read NASA Observations Find What Helps Heat Roots of ‘Moss’ on Sun At the center of this image (left) from NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager sounding rocket is a small-scale, patchy structure on the Sun that solar physicists call “moss.” It forms low in the solar atmosphere around the center of sunspot [...]
Minister for Education Mats Persson and U.S. Ambassador Erik D. Ramanathan shake hands after the signing ceremony.Credit: Margareta Stridh/Regeringskansliet On Tuesday, April 16, NASA welcomed Sweden as the 38th country to sign the Artemis Accords and commit to peaceful and safe space exploration. Minister for Education Dr. Mats Persson signed the accords on behalf of [...]
Space Biosciences Staff Awards NASA Honor Award Recipients Distinguished Service Medal James Connolly (2013) Early Career Achievement Medal Nicole A. Rayl (2012) David J. Smith (2016) Jonathan M. Galazka (2017) Equal Employment Opportunity Medal Dana G. Bolles (2014) Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal David L. Pletcher (2015) Exceptional Achievement Medal Janet E. Beegle (2015) Exceptional [...]
An image of croplands in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; an area the Large-Scale Hydrology Research Group hosted at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil expects could benefit from the OpenET-Brazil tool that aims to provide data about water consumption and evapotranspiration at the field scale.Federal University of Rio Grande do [...]
5 min read NASA’s Fermi Mission Sees No Gamma Rays from Nearby Supernova A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost particles, called cosmic rays, to near light-speed. But surprisingly, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light [...]
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, set to carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station, passes in front of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA teams joined Boeing on [...]
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) As NASA focuses on exploring the Moon, Mars, and the solar system for the benefit of humanity, the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is shifting how it prioritizes technology development. As part of this refinement effort, NASA is asking the American aerospace community [...]
