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SLS Payload Adapter Moved for Testing at NASA Marshall

By |2025-03-01T07:09:18-05:00March 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , |

Crews at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, moved and installed the payload adapter that will be used in the Block 1B configuration of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket from Building 4708, where it was manufactured, into Structural Test Stand 4697 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on March 13. [...]

Universal Stage Adapter for NASA’s SLS rocket readied for testing at Marshall

By |2025-02-28T19:09:21-05:00February 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

These photos and videos show how crews guided a test version of the universal stage adapter for NASA’s more powerful version of its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to Building 4619 at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Feb. 22. Built by Leidos, the lead contractor for the universal stage adapter, crews [...]

Smooshing for Science: A Flat-Out Success

By |2025-02-28T18:55:00-05:00February 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 2 min [...]

NASA Uses New Technology to Understand California Wildfires

By |2025-02-28T17:42:00-05:00February 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Compact Fire Infrared Radiance Spectral tracker, or C-FIRST, is managed an operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and supported by NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office. Combining state-of-the-art imaging technology with a compact design, C-FIRST enables scientists to gather data about fires and their [...]

What’s Up: March 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

By |2025-02-28T17:28:00-05:00February 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Skywatching Science Skywatching What’s Up: March 2025… Skywatching Home What’s Up What to See Tonight Moon Guide Eclipses Meteor Showers More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ   A Fast-Moving Planet and a Crimson Moon! Catch Mercury if you can, then stay up late for a total lunar eclipse, and learn the truth about the [...]

Crew Studies Space Exercise While Waiting for Saturday Delivery

By |2025-02-28T12:32:00-05:00February 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Roscosmos Progress 89 cargo craft completes a cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station after undocking from the orbital outpost’s Zvezda service module on Feb. 25, 2025.NASA Exercise research and muscle stimulation were the main research topics aboard the International Space Station on Friday to keep crews fit in weightlessness and in the [...]

Langley Laboratory Apprentice at Work

By |2025-02-28T11:40:00-05:00February 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA An apprentice at Langley Laboratory (now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia) inspects wind tunnel components in this image from May 15, 1943. During World War II, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the precursor to NASA, employed apprentices (which NASA has since transitioned into internships) to support meaningful jobs in data [...]

Hubble Captures New View of Colorful Veil

By |2025-02-28T09:34:00-05:00February 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 [...]

Jamie Dunn

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

Project Manager – Goddard Space Flight Center Growing up near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Jamie Dunn — now a project manager for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — naturally became interested in planes. While he initially wanted to be a pilot, he chose aerospace engineering as a college major. “I originally had [...]

Progress Cargo Mission Lifts Off to Station for Saturday Arrival

By |2025-02-27T16:31:00-05:00February 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Progress 91 cargo craft lifts off on time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 91 spacecraft is safely in orbit headed for the International Space Station following a launch at 4:24 p.m. EST (2:24 a.m. Baikonur time) Feb. 27, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.  After [...]

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