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Soyuz Undocks from Station, Crew Heads for Earth Return

The Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft undocks from the Prichal module to return three Expedition 73 crew members to Earth.NASA At 8:41 p.m. EST, the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station’s Prichal module with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard.   NASA’s live coverage of deorbit burn, [...]

By |2025-12-08T20:49:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Live on NASA+: Soyuz Crew Undocking from Station Soon

The Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft is pictured docked to the Prichal module just hours before undocking from the International Space Station and returning three crew members to Earth.NASA NASA’s live coverage of undocking is now underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. At 5:30 [...]

By |2025-12-08T20:31:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Hatches Closed, Crew Inside Soyuz Ready to Depart

Soyuz MS-27 crew members (frm left) NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia.GCTC At 5:30 p.m. EST, the hatch closed between the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and return to Earth. [...]

By |2025-12-08T17:40:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Live on NASA+: Three Crewmates Say Farewell, Set to Depart Station

From left, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky will soon depart the International Space Station inside the Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft for a landing in Kazakhstan.NASA NASA’s live departure coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social [...]

By |2025-12-08T16:48:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Flying Over the Earth at Night

Photo of the Day Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. Such visual spectacles occur every day for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but the featured video captured several from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 and set them to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city [...]

By |2025-12-08T15:44:58-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

XRISM Finds Chlorine, Potassium in Cas A

This composite image of the Cassiopeia A (or Cas A) supernova remnant, released Jan. 8, 2024, contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), infrared data from Webb (red, green, blue), and optical data from Hubble (red and white). A study by the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft has made the first-ever X-ray detections of chlorine [...]

By |2025-12-08T13:07:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Artemis II Vehicle Manager Branelle Rodriguez Gets Orion Ready for “Go”

By the time the Artemis II Orion spacecraft launches to the Moon next year, its many components will already have traveled thousands of miles and moved across multiple facilities before coming together at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Branelle Rodriguez, Artemis II vehicle manager for the Orion Program, has overseen many parts of that journey. Her [...]

By |2025-12-08T05:00:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Flexibility Divide: How Global Return-to-Office Mandates Threaten Women’s Progress in STEM

As the world turns back toward the office, the gains from flexibility in the workspace hang in the balance. The real question isn’t whether flexibility will last, but whether progress can survive without it. Source

By |2025-12-08T02:00:00-05:00December 8th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

The Sun and Its Missing Colors

Photo of the Day It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device. The spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our white-appearing Sun [...]

By |2025-12-07T15:44:29-05:00December 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Invention Challenge Brings Student Engineers to NASA JPL

Student teams competed in the 2025 Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Dec. 5. The event pits middle and high school teams against each other as they try to get handmade devices to accomplish a task.NASA/JPL-Caltech The 2025 Invention Challenge at JPL called on teams to build devices capable of moving about [...]

By |2025-12-05T21:05:00-05:00December 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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