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NASA Offers Free High School Engineering Program This Summer

By |2025-04-10T08:58:00-04:00April 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

This summer, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is offering a free summer STEM program for high school students in their junior and senior years.Credit: NASA NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is launching the NASA Glenn High School Engineering Institute this summer. The free, work-based learning experience is designed to help high school students [...]

Welcome to the Mission Support Directorate

By |2025-04-08T16:21:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Portrait of David Mitchell, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson building in Washington.NASA/Bill Ingalls David Mitchell, Associate Administrator for Mission Support Directorate  Have you ever wondered how NASA manages to achieve all the incredible missions it does, like probing the Sun [...]

NASA Welcomes Bangladesh as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

By |2025-04-08T08:17:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

On April 8, 2025, Bangladesh became the 54th nation to sign the accords. The commitments of the Artemis Accords and efforts by the signatories to advance implementation of these principles support the safe and sustainable exploration of space.NASA Following a signing ceremony Tuesday in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, NASA congratulates Bangladesh as the 54th [...]

Hubble Studies a Nearby Galaxy’s Star Formation

By |2025-04-04T07:00:00-04:00April 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

Ways Community College Students Can Get Involved With NASA

By |2025-04-01T09:02:00-04:00April 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

4 Min Read Ways Community College Students Can Get Involved With NASA For many students, the path to a NASA career begins at a community college. These local, two-year institutions offer valuable flexibility and options to those aspiring to be part of the nation’s next generation STEM workforce. NASA offers several opportunities for community [...]

Hubble Spots a Chance Alignment

By |2025-03-28T07:39:00-04:00March 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

Fallout from the Unauthorized Gemini III Space Sandwich

By |2025-03-20T09:00:00-04:00March 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

7 Min Read Fallout from the Unauthorized Gemini III Space Sandwich Astronaut John W. Young, the pilot for Gemini III, checks over his helmet prior to flight. Credits: NASA “I hid a sandwich in my spacesuit,” Astronaut John W. Young confessed in the April 2, 1965, issue of Life Magazine. The conversation about and [...]

Beyond the Algorithm Challenge

By |2025-03-20T08:19:00-04:00March 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) seeks solutions to complex Earth Science problems using transformative or unconventional computing technologies such as quantum computing, quantum machine learning, neuromorphic computing, or in-memory computing. Breakthrough computing methods show promise in overcoming processing power, efficiency, and performance limitations of conventional computing methods. Once fully harnessed, these methods [...]

ESA Previews Euclid Mission’s Deep View of ‘Dark Universe’

By |2025-03-19T09:24:00-04:00March 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This image shows about 1.5% of Euclid’s Deep Field South, one of three regions of the sky that the telescope will observe for more than 40 weeks over the course of its prime mission, spotting faint and distant galaxies. One galaxy cluster near the [...]

Goodnight, Moon: NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture Lunar Sunset

By |2025-03-19T09:00:00-04:00March 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

This compressed, resolution-limited gif shows the view of lunar sunset from one of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 cameras on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander, which operated on the Moon’s surface for a little more than 14 days and stopped, as anticipated, a few hours into lunar night. The bright, swirly [...]

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