Steven SinacoreCredit: NASA NASA leadership has named NASA Glenn Research Center’s Steven A. Sinacore as the agency’s program executive for Fission Surface Power with Lindsay Kaldon as deputy program executive. Sinacore will lead a team within the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate dedicated to advancing fission surface power technology in support of lunar exploration, providing [...]
1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Visitors at the Minnesota State Fair get an up-close look at a Moon rock on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. Credit: NASA/Christopher Richards NASA brought the excitement of space exploration to the Minnesota State Fair from Aug. 21–24, offering exhibits and interactive experiences for the whole [...]
3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Since April 1999, the AeroSpace Frontiers (AF) newsletter has shared information monthly on NASA Glenn Research Center’s people, projects, and progress. If you were looking for news on any of these topics, there was a good chance you could read all about them in [...]
Credit: NASA NASA has selected Science and Technology Corp. of Columbia, Maryland, to support atmospheric science research and development at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Atmosphere Support is a cost-plus-fixed-fee, single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ordering value of $163.1 million. The contract will have an effective date of Monday, [...]
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, shown in this artist’s concept, orbits Earth as it studies the ever-changing universe.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Driving rapid innovation in the American space industry, NASA has awarded Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona, a contract to raise a spacecraft’s orbit. Katalyst’s robotic servicing spacecraft will [...]
Attendees are seen by the NASA exhibit at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Led by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, an agency delegation will participate in the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney, Australia, from Sunday, Sept. 28 to [...]
(Top) NASA astronaut Anne McClain performs the first series of tests of an Astrobee robot, Bumble, during a hardware checkout in May, 2019. (Bottom) NASA astronaut McClain poses with Astrobee robots Bumble (left) and Honey during their latest on orbit activity in May, 2025. NASA NASA is continuing the Astrobee mission through a collaboration [...]
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Justin Link, left, and Justin Hall attach an engine onto a subscale aircraft on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, at NASA’s Armstong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Link is a pilot for small uncrewed aircraft systems at the center’s Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research [...]
Pictured inside the Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL cargo craft are (clockwise from left) astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Jonny Kim, and Kimiya Yui. Highlighted at center, is a poster of William “Willie” McCool, in honor of the NASA astronaut for whom the Cygnus spacecraft is named.NASA Fitness research and vision studies once again topped the [...]
Sophia Gaines Mitchell and Candiece Wilson reflect on the lessons they have learned as leaders at Turner, driving impact in the construction field. Source
