NASA astronaut and Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch examines the Orion stage adapter, a ring-like structure that connects the agency’s SLS rocket to the Orion spacecraft. Several CubeSats will deploy from the adapter to high Earth orbit during the test flight. NASA/Charles Beason NASA has signed an agreement with Argentina’s Comisión Nacional de Actividades [...]
NASA astronaut Anne McClain works inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft loading and securing cargo for the return to Earth scheduled for Thursday, May 22, 2025.NASA Tuesday saw more space biology work aboard the International Space Station helping doctors learn how to protect health and preserve life in microgravity. The Expedition 73 residents also continued their [...]
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Nick Hague, and Don Pettit show off their ‘Proud to be American’ socks in a photo taken aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA Four NASA astronauts will participate in a welcome home ceremony at Space Center Houston after recently returning from missions aboard the International Space Station. [...]
4 min read Unearthly Plumbing Required for Plant Watering in Space NASA is demonstrating new microgravity fluids technologies to enable advanced “no-moving-parts” plant-watering methods aboard spacecraft. Boeing Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore during operations of Plant Water Management-6 (PWM-6) aboard the International Space Station. Image: NASA Crop production in microgravity will be important [...]
This article is for students grades 5-8. The International Space Station is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live. The space station is also a unique science laboratory. Several nations worked together to build and use the space station. The space station is made [...]
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When future astronauts set foot on Mars, they will stand on decades of scientific groundwork laid by people like Andrea Harrington. As NASA’s sample return curation integration lead, Harrington is helping shape the future of planetary exploration and paving the way for interplanetary discovery. Official portrait of Andrea Harrington. NASA/Josh Valcarcel Harrington works in NASA’s [...]
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5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) One of the navigation cameras on NASA’s Perseverance captured the rover’s tracks coming from an area called “Witch Hazel Hill,” on May 13, 2025, the 1,503rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists expect the new area of interest on the lower [...]
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim poses for a portrait inside the cupola, the International Space Station’s “window to the world.” The orbital outpost was soaring 265 miles above the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar at the time of this photograph.NASA The Expedition 73 crew kicked off the work week studying space biology to learn [...]
