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Celebrating 10 Years at Mars with NASA’s MAVEN Mission

By |2024-09-23T14:00:00-04:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Mars Secondary Navigation 2 Mars Home Facts Mars Exploration Overview Rover Basics Mars Exploration Science Goals Mission Timeline Summary Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Multimedia The Mars Report Images Video Audio More Resources News & Features The Solar System [...]

NASA Science Activation Program Wins Prestigious Award

By |2024-09-23T13:23:00-04:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The NASA Science Activation (SciAct) Program has been selected to receive the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2024 Excellence in Earth and Space Science Education Award. This prestigious, annual award, established in 1995, honors a mid-career or senior scientist team, individual, or group that has demonstrated a sustained commitment to broad, positive impact on Earth and [...]

NASA Ames Stars of the Month: September 2024

By |2024-09-23T13:09:00-04:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Don Sullivan, Serena Trieu, Emmett Quigley, and Zara Mirmalek. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the talent, camaraderie, and vision needed to explore this world and beyond. Earth Science Star: Don Sullivan Don Sullivan enables cutting-edge research in the [...]

A Striped Surprise

By |2024-09-23T12:34:00-04:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Mars: Perseverance (Mars 2020) Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance [...]

NASA Expands Small Business, Industry Engagement Resources

By |2024-09-23T11:09:00-04:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Pride Progress Flag is seen waving in the wind following a flag raising ceremony in recognition and celebration of LGBTQI+ Pride Month at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington on June 1, 2023.Credits: NASA/Keegan Barber Two new resources are available for businesses that provide products and services to support NASA’s missions, [...]

Find Exoasteroids and Peek into the Future

By |2024-09-23T10:10:00-04:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech What will remain of our solar system a few billion years from now?  We’re launching the Exoasteroids project to gather some clues. Join this new citizen science project, and help search for variable white dwarfs – bizarre objects that we can catch in the act of disassembling planetary systems. White dwarfs each pack [...]

NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Crewmates Return from Space Station

By |2024-09-23T09:16:00-04:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, return to Earth after completing their mission to the International Space Station.Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson completed a six-month research mission aboard the International Space Station on Monday, returning to Earth with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub. [...]

Soyuz Lands Returning Dyson, Two Crewmates Back to Earth

By |2024-09-23T08:12:00-04:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan at 7:59 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23. Credit: NASA At 7:59 a.m. EDT (4:59 p.m. Kazakhstan time), the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft made a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. Spanning 184 days in space, NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson’s mission includes [...]

NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Crewmates Returning to Earth Live on NASA+

By |2024-09-23T06:48:00-04:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

Individual pre-flight crew portraits of NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub wearing their Soyuz launch and landing suits. NASA’s live return coverage is underway on NASA+ and the agency’s website. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, [...]

Soyuz Spacecraft Undocks, Three Crew Members Headed Back to Earth

By |2024-09-23T04:43:00-04:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft undocks from the International Space Station’s Prichal module. Credit: NASA At 4:36 a.m. EDT, the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft undocked from the orbiting laboratory’s Prichal module with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko. NASA’s live coverage of deorbit burn, entry, and landing will begin at [...]

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