William “Bill” Swann, one of the first-generation pilots at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory (predecessor to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland), prepares to board a McDonnell F2H-2B airplane on Nov. 6, 1956.Credit: NASA Many of NASA’s most important aerospace breakthroughs that began in the laboratory were ultimately proven in the sky. [...]
Astronauts Anil Menon of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA are pictured training for a spacewalk at the Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, Texas.NASA NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot began a spacewalk at 8:29 a.m. EDT outside the International Space Station to replace a Space-to-Ground [...]
Astronauts Anil Menon of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA pose for their official portraits while wearing spacesuits at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.NASA NASA is streaming live coverage as two astronauts prepare for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to last about six and a half hours. [...]
APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 August 18 –…Today’s APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Perseids from Perseus Explanation: This was a good year for the Perseids meteor shower. A key reason was the Moon was [...]
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Credit: NASA NASA has selected four companies to provide payload processing facilities under the Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract on‑ramp provision. The provision enables qualified providers to offer commercial payload processing services for agency missions launching from multiple locations where capabilities were not available at the time of the initial contract award. Contract awardees are: All [...]
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A busy street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, which is the subject of NASA-led air quality research.Ninaras (CC BY-SA 4.0) A NASA-funded air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the role of black carbon, or soot [...]
Explore This Section Science Science Activation Next Generation of Planetary… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation 3 min read Next Generation of Planetary Scientists Learn Public Engagement Skills Group photo of undergraduate research interns and FORCE leaders standing together beside the high-pressure laboratory equipment. The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) [...]
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Ohio State Univ./J. Rodriguez et al; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/P. Edmonds Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope combine to reveal a vibrant view of 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, in this Aug. 11, 2026, image. Located in the Large Magellanic [...]
5 Min Read NASA Challenge Tests Wheel Designs for Moon Base Mobility NASA engineers, NASA Robotics Academy students, and teams from the Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge pose with the wheel prototypes at NASA’s Johnson Space Center Rock Yard in Houston on July 31, 2026. Credits: NASA/Luna Posadas Nava NASA engineers, NASA Robotics [...]
