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NASA Marshall Removes 2 Historic Test Stands

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, removed two of its historic test stands – the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility and the Dynamic Test Facility – with carefully coordinated implosions on Jan. 10, 2026. The [...]

By |2026-01-10T16:01:00-05:00January 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA, SpaceX Set Target Date for Crew-11’s Return to Earth

Dec. 8, 2025: International Space Station Configuration. Seven spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft, the SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon spacecraft, JAXA’s HTV-X1 cargo craft, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo craft, the Soyuz MS-28 crew ship, and the Progress 92 and 93 resupply ships.NASA NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier [...]

By |2026-01-09T20:49:00-05:00January 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

Final Steps Underway for NASA’s First Crewed Artemis Moon Mission

NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is seen inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building as teams await the arrival of Artemis II crewmembers to board their Orion spacecraft on top of the rocket as part of the Artemis II countdown demonstration test, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in [...]

By |2026-01-09T19:00:00-05:00January 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Shaken, Not Stirred: NASA’s StarBurst Aces Extreme Temperature Tests

NASA’s StarBurst instrument outside a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.NASA/Daniel Kocevski Heated, cooled, shaken, and settled – NASA’s StarBurst instrument is several steps closer to being ready for launch. The small satellite is now awaiting instrument calibration following a successful integration in Canada and rigorous testing by engineers [...]

By |2026-01-09T16:41:00-05:00January 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Expedition 74 Preps for Crew Departure, Keeps Up Advanced Research

This moonlit, violet-hued view of the International Space Station’s main solar arrays, partially overlapped by a smaller set of roll-out solar arrays, was captured as the orbital outpost soared above the Pacific Ocean, just north of New Zealand.JAXA/Kimiya Yui Four Expedition 74 crew members are preparing for their return to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon [...]

By |2026-01-09T16:23:00-05:00January 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

Flight Engineers Give NASA’s Dragonfly Lift

In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific discovery. And the work to ensure that this first-of-its-kind project can fulfill its ambitious exploration vision is underway in some of the nation’s most advanced space simulation and testing laboratories. From [...]

By |2026-01-09T13:17:00-05:00January 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

I Am Artemis: Dave Reynolds

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Dave Reynolds Dave Reynolds, the booster manager for SLS (Space Launch System), works inside the Next Generation Booster Avionics Mockup at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Reynolds is responsible for the design, development, and flight of the boosters for the rocket that carry NASA’s Orion [...]

By |2026-01-09T12:29:00-05:00January 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond

6 min read NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars. Along for the ride are two shoebox-sized satellites called BlackCAT (Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope) [...]

By |2026-01-09T09:40:00-05:00January 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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