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Hubble Examines a Spiral Star Factory

Hubble Space Telescope Home Hubble Examines a Spiral Star… Missions Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community [...]

By |2024-09-13T07:00:00-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Station Crew Expands to 12 as New Arrivals Work Half-Day

Six Expedition 71 crew members pose for a portrait inside the Rassvet module moments before three Soyuz MS-26 crew members enter the space station. Three new crewmates joined the International Space Station crew on Wednesday after a three-hour ride that began at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with a launch aboard the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft. [...]

By |2024-09-12T15:10:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

Testing Europa Clipper’s Solar Arrays

NASA/Frank Michaux On Aug. 21, 2024, engineers and technicians deployed and tested NASA’s Europa Clipper giant solar arrays. Each array measures about 46.5 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13.5 feet (4.1 meters) high. Europa Clipper is scheduled to launch Oct. 10, 2024, on the first mission to conduct a detailed science investigation of Jupiter’s [...]

By |2024-09-12T14:57:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Conduct Space Station Research

The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around.NASA NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are headed to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission in September. Once on station, these crew members will support scientific investigations that include studies of blood [...]

By |2024-09-12T14:00:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Printed Engines Propel the Next Industrial Revolution

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A laser powder directed energy deposition (LP-DED) 3D printer at RPM Innovations’ facility additively manufactures a large-scale aerospike rocket engine nozzle from one of Elementum 3D’s specialized, 3D-printable aluminum alloys.RPM Innovations Inc. In the fall of 2023, NASA hot fire tested an aluminum 3D [...]

By |2024-09-12T13:32:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Moon to Mars Architecture Art Challenge

NASA wants you to visualize the future of space exploration! This art challenge is looking for creative, artistic images to represent NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture, the agency’s roadmap for crewed exploration of deep space. With NASA’s Moon to Mars Objectives in hand, the agency is developing an architecture for crewed exploration of the Moon, Mars, [...]

By |2024-09-12T10:54:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives 

The Moon is pictured on Dec. 7, 2022, the day before its Full Moon phase from the International Space Station as it orbited above the southern Indian Ocean.Credit: NASA NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) following a policy directive from the White [...]

By |2024-09-12T10:51:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy

5 Min Read NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy This image shows a portion of the star-forming region, known as Digel Cloud 2S (full image below). Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Ressler (JPL) Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists [...]

By |2024-09-12T10:00:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Enters Quarantine Ahead of Launch

From right to left, NASA SpaceX Crew-9 members Nick Hague, commander, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, mission specialist, pose for an official crew portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Photo Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarel Members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission will spend the next two weeks in routine preflight quarantine at the agency’s [...]

By |2024-09-12T03:38:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |
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