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Station Expands to 11 Before Next Crew Leaves This Week

Expedition 73 welcomes NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission aboard the International Space Station. In the front from left are, Crew-11 members Oleg Platonov, Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and Kimiya Yui. In the back are, Expedition 73 members Takuya Onishi, Kirill Peskov, Alexey Zubritsky, Sergey Ryzhikov, Jonny Kim, Nichole Ayers, and Anne McClain.@Astro_Ayers Four new crew members [...]

By |2025-08-04T16:18:00-04:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4616-4617: Standing Tall on the Ridge

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 4 min [...]

By |2025-08-04T15:47:00-04:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Black Marble: Stories from the Night Sky

1 min read NASA’s Black Marble: Stories from the Night Sky Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Home Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at Work Earth Science at Work Technology and Innovation Powering Business Multimedia Image Collections Videos Data For Researchers About [...]

By |2025-08-04T15:10:00-04:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

STEM Educators Are Bringing Hands-On NASA Science into Virginia Classrooms

Explore This Section Science Courses & Curriculums for… STEM Educators Are Bringing… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   4 min read STEM Educators Are Bringing Hands-On NASA Science into Virginia Classrooms Professional learning experiences are integral to the enhancement of classroom instruction. Teachers, at [...]

By |2025-08-04T14:33:00-04:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Moon Mission Ends

With one of its solar arrays deployed, NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer sits in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space in Colorado during testing in August 2024. The mission was to investigate the nature of the Moon’s water, but controllers lost contact with the spacecraft a day after launch in February 2025.Lockheed Martin Space The small [...]

By |2025-08-04T13:55:00-04:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Opens Simulated Mars Habitat to Media Ahead of Second Mission

The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) team hosts a media day at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2023.Credit: NASA As NASA prepares for its second year-long Mars simulated mission, media are invited to visit the ground-based habitat where the mission will take place, on Friday, Aug. 22, at the agency’s Johnson [...]

By |2025-08-04T13:22:00-04:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This view of tracks trailing NASA’s Curiosity was captured July 26, 2025, as the rover simultaneously relayed data to a Mars orbiter. Combining tasks like this more efficiently uses energy generated by Curiosity’s nuclear power source, seen here lined with rows of white fins [...]

By |2025-08-04T13:00:00-04:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Perseids Meteor Shower

NASA/Bill Ingalls In this 30 second exposure photograph, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. The Perseids meteor shower, which peaks in mid-August, is considered the best of the year. With swift and bright meteors, Perseids frequently leave [...]

By |2025-08-04T12:36:00-04:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Artemis Crew Trains in Moonbound Orion Ahead of Mission

The Artemis II crew (from left to right) CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; Christina Koch, mission specialist; Victor Glover, pilot; and Reid Wiseman, commander, don their Orion Crew Survival System Suits for a multi-day crew module training beginning Thursday, July 31, 2025 at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Behind the [...]

By |2025-08-04T11:32:00-04:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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