23 Min Read The Marshall Star for April 3, 2024 Huntsville, Marshall Preparing to Celebrate Total Solar Eclipse By Celine Smith On April 8 between 1 and 3 p.m., the Moon will pass between the Sun and Earth to create a total solar eclipse for 15 states. While Alabama will experience a partial eclipse, [...]
Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft reenters the atmosphere after completing a 1.4 million-mile, 25.5 day Artemis I mission to the Moon.
art001m1013251756 (Nov. 21, 2022) The Moon is seen below Orion on flight day 6 of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission. On this day, Orion completed the outbound powered flyby, passing just 81 miles above the Moon.
The Orion Environmental Test Article (the Orion spacecraft flown during Artemis I) arrived at NASA Glenn’s Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio on January 09, 2024 for post-mission testing.
An artist’s concept design of NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle.NASA NASA has selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab to advance capabilities for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) that Artemis astronauts will use to travel around the lunar surface, conducting scientific research during the agency’s Artemis campaign at the Moon and preparing for human missions to [...]
5 min read Scientists Pursue the Total Solar Eclipse with NASA Jet Planes The April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will produce stunning views across North America. While anyone along the eclipse path with a clear sky will see the spectacular event, the best view might be 50,000 feet in the air, aboard NASA’s WB-57 [...]
NASA/Woody Hoburg These aren’t highways in this picture taken on Aug. 15, 2023; they’re paths carved by glaciers as they move through the Karakoram mountain range north of the Himalayas. Crew aboard the International Space Station take photos of Earth, recording how the planet changes over time due to human activity and natural events. This [...]
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work “to the widest extent practicable.” From typewritten press releases to analog photos and film, NASA has effectively moved into social media and other online communications. NASA’s [...]
Astronaut Shannon Walker prepares to release a weather balloon from the deck of the USS Portland ahead of the splashdown of the Artemis I Orion Spacecraft on Dec. 11. NASA's Landing and Recovery team works alongside the DoD to safely recover the capsule after missions to the Moon. [...]
A NASA flight campaign aims to enable drones to land safely on rooftop hubs called vertiports for future delivery of people and goods. The campaign may also lead to improvements in weather prediction. NASA’s AEROcAST (Advanced Exploration of Reliable Operation at Low Altitudes: Meteorology, Simulation and Technology) campaign is based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research [...]
