Promoting science and technology education through spaceflight and weather balloons.

Recognizing Employee Excellence

By |2025-02-12T08:06:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Glenn Employees Earn Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers Two NASA Glenn Research Center employees were among 19 agency researchers recognized as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).  Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown Credit: NASA  Lyndsey McMillon-Brown [...]

NASA Fire Safety Test Took on Reduced Gravity

By |2025-02-12T08:05:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A still image of a video that shows a plastic rod and cotton-fiberglass fabric being burned during a ground test of the Lunar-g Combustion Investigation (LUCI) experiment.Credit: Voyager Technologies An experiment studying how solid materials catch fire and burn in the Moon’s gravity was [...]

NASA Glenn Holds Day of Remembrance 

By |2025-02-12T08:05:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut Kayla Barron, left, and NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro place a wreath at the Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial as part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls  NASA observed its annual Day of Remembrance [...]

Euclid Discovers Einstein Ring in Our Cosmic Backyard

By |2025-02-10T08:28:00-05:00February 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The ring of light surrounding the center of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA’s Euclid telescope, is an example of an Einstein ring. NGC 6505 is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a galaxy far behind it. ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi, T. Li; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO or ESA [...]

Hsiao Smith

By |2025-02-06T08:57:00-05:00February 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Deputy Observatory Manager – Goddard Space Flight Center Growing up in Malaysia and Singapore, Hsiao Smith — now the deputy observatory manager for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — never imagined she’d have a career at NASA. But when she moved near NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, things quickly fell into [...]

More Than 400 Lives Saved with NASA’s Search and Rescue Tech in 2024

By |2025-02-06T08:38:00-05:00February 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 Min Read More Than 400 Lives Saved with NASA’s Search and Rescue Tech in 2024 NASA Artemis II crew members are assisted by U.S. Navy personnel as they exit a mockup of the Orion spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean during Underway Recovery Test 11 (URT-11) on Feb. 25, 2024. Credits: NASA/Kenny Allen NASA’s [...]

Station Nation: Meet Tandra Gill Spain, Computer Resources Senior Project Manager in the Avionics and Software Office 

By |2025-02-03T07:00:00-05:00February 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

For astronauts aboard the International Space Station, staying connected to loved ones and maintaining a sense of normalcy is critical. That is where Tandra Gill Spain, a computer resources senior project manager in NASA’s Avionics and Software Office, comes in. Spain leads the integration of applications on Apple devices and the hardware integration on the [...]

2024 Annual Report Highlights Langley’s Wonder at Work

By |2025-01-28T09:00:00-05:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA At NASA’s Langley Research Center, we are proud of our world-renowned role in innovating and improving the way we fly, explore, and understand our universe.” said NASA Langley leadership in an introductory message to Langley’s 2024 Annual Report. “The passion, dedication, and expertise of our workforce is bringing solutions to the nation’s toughest [...]

40 Years Ago: STS-51C, the First Dedicated Department of Defense Shuttle Mission

By |2025-01-24T09:07:00-05:00January 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

On Jan. 24, 1985, space shuttle Discovery took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on STS-51C, the first space shuttle mission entirely dedicated to the Department of Defense (DOD). As such, many of the details of the flight remain classified. Discovery’s crew of Commander Thomas “T.K.” Mattingly, Pilot Loren Shriver, Mission Specialists [...]

Go to Top