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Going the Distance: Lisa Pace Leads Exploration Development Integration at Johnson

Lisa Pace knows a marathon when she sees one. An avid runner, she has participated in five marathons and more than 50 half marathons. Though she prefers to move quickly, she also knows the value of taking her time. “I solve most of my problems while running – or realize those problems aren’t worth worrying [...]

By |2025-06-30T06:00:00-04:00June 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Dark Sand Cascades on Mars

Photo of the Day Are these trees growing on Mars? No. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The featured image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the [...]

By |2025-06-29T12:44:24-04:00June 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

NASA Welcomes Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station

NASA/Nichole Ayers A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the Axiom Mission 4 crew docks to the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module on June 26. Axiom Mission 4 is the fourth all-private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, welcoming commander Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, [...]

By |2025-06-27T16:50:00-04:00June 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Announces Winners of 2025 Human Lander Challenge

NASA’s Human Lander Challenge marked its second year on June 26, awarding $18,000 in prize money to three university teams for their solutions for long-duration cryogenic, or super chilled, liquid storage and transfer systems for spaceflight. Building on the crewed Artemis II flight test, NASA’s Artemis III mission will send astronauts to explore the [...]

By |2025-06-27T15:22:00-04:00June 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Ax-4 Meets Expedition 73 and Begins Space Research

The four Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) and seven Expedition 73 crew members join each other in the International Space Station’s Harmony module for a group portrait.NASA+ Eleven residents are living and working aboard the International Space Station following the docking of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) at 6:31 a.m. EDT on Thursday. The seven Expedition 73 [...]

By |2025-06-27T14:35:00-04:00June 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Astronaut Joe Engle Flies X-15

In 1963, Captain Engle was assigned as one of two Air Force test pilots to fly the X-15 Research Rocket aircraft. In 1965, he flew the X-15 to an altitude of 280,600 feet, and became the youngest pilot ever to qualify as an astronaut. Three of his sixteen flights in the X-15 exceeded the 50-mile [...]

By |2025-06-27T13:49:00-04:00June 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Sophia Roberts: Showcasing the Cosmos

Astrophysics Science Video Producer – Goddard Space Flight Center Growing up in Detroit with a camera in her hand, Sophia Roberts — now an award-winning astrophysics science video producer—never imagined that one day her path would wind through clean rooms, vacuum chambers, and even a beryllium mine. But framing the final frontier sometimes requires traveling [...]

By |2025-06-27T12:01:00-04:00June 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center

2 min read Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy UGC 11397. ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC [...]

By |2025-06-27T09:17:00-04:00June 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4580-4581: Something in the Air…

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 2 min [...]

By |2025-06-26T16:30:00-04:00June 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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