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Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology

By |2025-02-24T18:26:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology A view of the Moon from Earth, zooming up to IM-2's landing site at Mons Mouton, which is visible in amateur telescopes. Credits: NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio NASA is sending revolutionary technologies to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ second lunar delivery as part of the [...]

NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 91 Launch, Space Station Docking

By |2025-02-24T17:55:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress spacecraft pictured on Aug. 13, 2024, from the International Space Station.Credit: NASA NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft delivering approximately three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 91 spacecraft is scheduled to [...]

Venus Blows Off Some Steam

By |2025-02-24T17:19:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Tall plumes of white vapor rise from the rocky Venusian surface in this April 19, 1977, artist’s concept.NASA/Rick Guidice Tall plumes of white vapor rise from the rocky Venusian surface in this April 19, 1977, artist’s concept. A little over a year later, NASA’s Pioneer Venus 1 would launch as the first of a two-spacecraft [...]

Ames’ Own: Wayne R. Johnson Elected to the 2025 National Academy of Engineering Class

By |2025-02-24T15:09:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Wayne Johnson, who in 2012 earned the highest rank of Fellow at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, is known worldwide as an expert in rotary wing technology. He was among those who provided help in testing Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars helicopter.NASA / Eric James NASA Ames’ Wayne Johnson Elected to 2025 Class of New Members [...]

NASA Invites Media to Observe FireSense Prescribed Burn at Kennedy

By |2025-02-24T15:00:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Drone pilot Brayden Chamberlain flashes a “good to go” signal to the command tent, indicating that the NASA Alta X quadcopter is prepped for takeoff during a FireSense uncrewed aerial system (UAS) Technology Demonstration test in 2023 in Missoula, Montana. The instruments on board collected data on wind speed and direction, humidity, temperature, and pressure.NASA/Milan [...]

NASA Names Acting Associate Administrator, More Leadership Changes

By |2025-02-24T14:34:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA logo. (Credit: NASA) NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro announced Monday Vanessa Wyche will serve as the acting associate administrator for the agency at NASA Headquarters in Washington, effective immediately. Wyche, who had been the director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, is detailed as Petro’s senior advisor leading the agency’s center directors and [...]

Crew Off-Duty Monday Before Week of Research, Cargo Spacecraft Missions

By |2025-02-24T13:20:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait inside the International Space Station’s Unity module. From left, are NASA astronaut Suni Williams, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Butch Wimore.NASA The seven-member Expedition 72 crew relaxed on Monday before beginning a week with a host of advanced space research into [...]

NASA Invites Media to Attend Alabama Space Day 2025

By |2025-02-24T12:31:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A NASA exhibit of SLS (Space Launch System), which will return humanity to the Moon, is displayed in front of the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery during Alabama Space Day 2023 on April 11, 2023. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the U.S. [...]

NASA Marshall Reflects on 65 Years of Ingenuity, Teamwork 

By |2025-02-24T10:20:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Min Read NASA Marshall Reflects on 65 Years of Ingenuity, Teamwork  NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is celebrating its 65-year legacy of ingenuity and service to the U.S. space program – and the expansion of its science, engineering, propulsion, and human spaceflight portfolio with each new decade since the NASA field center [...]

Light Pillar over Erupting Etna

By |2025-02-24T08:09:11-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Can a lava flow extend into the sky? No, but light from the lava flow can. One effect is something quite unusual -- a volcanic light pillar. More typically, light pillars are caused by sunlight and so appear as a bright column that extends upward above a rising or setting [...]

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