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NASA Names New Leader of STEM Engagement

By |2024-12-16T12:43:00-05:00December 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Portrait, Elaine Ho, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani) NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday Elaine P. Ho will serve as the next associate administrator of NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM), where she will lead the agency’s efforts to inspire Artemis Generation students and educators in science, [...]

NASA Mars Orbiter Spots Retired InSight Lander to Study Dust Movement

By |2024-12-16T11:59:00-05:00December 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Seen at the center of this image, NASA’s retired InSight Mars lander was captured by the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its High-Resolution Imagine Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on Oct. 23, 2024.NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona New images taken from space show how dust on and [...]

Dragon Cargo Spacecraft Leaves Station Packed With Science

By |2024-12-16T11:09:00-05:00December 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

Dec. 16, 2024: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon Freedom, the Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply ship, the Soyuz MS-26 crew ship, and the Progress 89 and 90 resupply ships. At 11:05 a.m. EST, the unpiloted SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the forward port of the [...]

NASA+ Broadcasting Dragon Departing Station

By |2024-12-16T10:56:00-05:00December 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

The SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship is photographed departing the space station on July 8, 2021. NASA’s live coverage of undocking and departure is underway on NASA+. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. The unpiloted SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will undock at 11:05 a.m. EST from the forward [...]

NASA’s Webb Finds Planet-Forming Disks Lived Longer in Early Universe

By |2024-12-16T10:00:00-05:00December 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Webb Webb News Latest News Latest Images Blog (offsite) Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Observatory Overview Launch Orbit Mirrors [...]

NASA DAVINCI Mission’s Many ‘Firsts’ to Unlock Venus’ Hidden Secrets

By |2024-12-16T09:06:00-05:00December 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read NASA DAVINCI Mission’s Many ‘Firsts’ to Unlock Venus’ Hidden Secrets The surface of Venus is an inferno with temperatures hot enough to melt lead. This image is a composite of data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s DAVINCI — Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, [...]

A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet Churyumov – Gerasimenko

By |2024-12-16T08:09:08-05:00December 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This kilometer high cliff occurs on the surface of a comet. It was discovered on the dark nucleus of Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko (CG) by Rosetta, a robotic spacecraft launched by ESA, which orbited the comet from 2014 to 2016. The ragged cliff, as featured here, was imaged by Rosetta [...]

Geminid Meteors over a Snowy Forest

By |2024-12-15T08:09:06-05:00December 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Meteors have been flowing out from the constellation Gemini. This was expected, as mid-December is the time of the Geminid Meteor Shower. Pictured here, over two dozen meteors were caught in successively added exposures taken over several hours early Saturday morning from a snowy forest in Poland. The fleeting streaks [...]

NASA, SpaceX Adjust Dragon Undock Date Due to Weather

By |2024-12-14T12:46:00-05:00December 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

International Space Station Configuration. Six spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon Freedom, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, the Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply ship, the Soyuz MS-26 crew ship, and the Progress 89 and 90 resupply ships. Mission managers waved off the planned return of a Dragon resupply spacecraft on Sunday, [...]

NASA Awards Multi-Center Administrative Support Services Contract

By |2024-12-13T16:24:00-05:00December 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected FedSync-BFS, LLC of Alexandria, Virginia, to provide administrative services for multiple NASA centers. The Multi-Center Administrative Support Services Contract is a firm-fixed-price and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a value not to exceed $200 million during a five-year ordering period. The performance period begins April 1, 2025. Contracted work will take place [...]

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