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Rocket Launch as Seen from the International Space Station

Photo of the Day Have you ever seen a rocket launch -- from space? A close inspection of the featured time-lapse video will reveal a rocket rising to Earth orbit as seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian Soyuz-FG rocket was launched in November 2018 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying [...]

By |2025-01-05T08:09:07-05:00January 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Small Business Funding Enables Aircraft Inspection by Drone

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A Boeing 777-300ER aircraft is being inspected by one of Near Earth Autonomy’s drones Feb. 2, 2024, at an Emirates Airlines facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.Near Earth Autonomy A small business called Near Earth Autonomy developed a time-saving solution using drones for pre-flight [...]

By |2025-01-03T16:48:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA to Host Media Call Highlighting Mars Sample Return Update

Credit: NASA NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Jan. 7, to provide an update on the status of the agency’s Mars Sample Return Program. The briefing will include NASA’s efforts to complete its goals of returning scientifically selected samples [...]

By |2025-01-03T15:39:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Approval to Exceed GSA Lodging for LPSC 2025

This letter from SARA is to issue a waiver for NASA grantees attending the 2025 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), allowing them to be reimbursed out of their grants for their actual lodging, although it’s expected to be above the approved GSA amount. This waiver does not supersede the travel policy of your institution [...]

By |2025-01-03T15:00:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Summary of the Third Annual AEOIP Workshop

Earth Observer Earth Home Earth Observer Home Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam More Archives 27 min read Summary of the Third Annual AEOIP Workshop Introduction The Applied Earth Observations Innovation Partnership (AEOIP) was established in 2018 to facilitate knowledge coproduction and optimization of NASA Earth [...]

By |2025-01-03T14:59:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Media Day with Artemis II Crews

NASA/Kim Shiflett From left, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jenni Gibbons, NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman participate in a media day event on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gibbons and [...]

By |2025-01-03T13:21:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Idaho Students to Connect with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit points a camera outside a window on the International Space Station’s Poisk module for a sun photography session. (Credit: NASA) Students from Hawthorne Elementary School in Boise, Idaho, will have the chance to hear NASA astronaut Don Pettit answer their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and [...]

By |2025-01-03T13:08:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere

5 min read NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, or LEXI, instrument [...]

By |2025-01-03T12:00:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA, NOAA to Announce 2024 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions

This map depicts global temperature anomalies for meteorological summer in 2024 (June, July, and August). It shows how much warmer or cooler different regions of Earth were compared to the baseline average from 1951 to 1980. (Credit: NASA/NOAA) Climate researchers from NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) will release their annual assessments of [...]

By |2025-01-03T11:09:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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