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Expedition 73 Crew Launches to International Space Station

NASA/Joel Kowsky A Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 73 crew members including NASA astronaut Jonny Kim on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The crew arrived at the space station the same day, bringing the number of residents to 10 for the next two weeks. Expedition [...]

By |2025-04-09T14:38:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Science Supports Data Literacy for K-12 Students

Explore This Section Science Science Activation NASA Science Supports Data… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   3 min read NASA Science Supports Data Literacy for K-12 Students Data – and our ability to understand and use it – shapes nearly every aspect of our [...]

By |2025-04-09T14:28:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Mike Drury: A 40-Year Legacy of Precision

Deputy Integration and Testing Manager – Goddard Space Flight Center Mike Drury began at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as a temporary technician — a contractor hired for six weeks to set up High Capacity Centrifuge tests. Six weeks then turned into three months and, eventually, over 40 years. Mike Drury, the [...]

By |2025-04-09T12:01:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Planetary Defenders Documentary Premieres April 16

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA is bringing the world of planetary defense to the public with its new documentary, “Planetary Defenders.” Dr. Shantanu Naidu, Asteroid Radar Researcher, from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory points toward the Goldstone Solar System Radar in Barstow, CA – the most powerful planetary radar [...]

By |2025-04-09T11:15:00-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

HH 49: Interstellar Jet from Webb

Photo of the Day What's at the tip of this interstellar jet? First let's consider the jet: it is being expelled by a star system just forming and is cataloged as Herbig-Haro 49 (HH 49). The star system expelling this jet is not visible -- it is off to the lower right. The complex [...]

By |2025-04-09T09:09:18-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Sols 4505-4506: Up, up and onto the Devil’s Gate 

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 3 min [...]

By |2025-04-08T18:57:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Welcome to the Mission Support Directorate

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Portrait of David Mitchell, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson building in Washington.NASA/Bill Ingalls David Mitchell, Associate Administrator for Mission Support Directorate  Have you ever wondered how NASA manages to achieve all the incredible missions it does, like probing the Sun [...]

By |2025-04-08T16:21:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Welcome to the Mission Support Directorate (MSD)

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Portrait of David Mitchell, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson building in Washington.NASA/Bill Ingalls David Mitchell, the Associate Administrator for MSD.    Have you ever wondered how NASA manages to achieve all the incredible missions it does, like probing the Sun and [...]

By |2025-04-08T16:21:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Sixty Years in Canberra: NASA’s Deep Space Network

NASA Deep Space Station 43 (DSS-43), a 230-foot-wide (70-meter-wide) radio antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, is seen in this March 4, 2020, image. DSS-43 was more than six times as sensitive as the original antenna at the Canberra complex, so it could communicate with spacecraft at greater distances from Earth. [...]

By |2025-04-08T15:35:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Findings from the Field: A Research Symposium for Student Scientists

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Findings from the Field: A… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   3 min read Findings from the Field: A Research Symposium for Student Scientists Within the scientific community, peer review has become the process norm for which an [...]

By |2025-04-08T14:41:00-04:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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