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NASA, Boeing Test How to Improve Performance of Longer, Narrower Aircraft Wings 

By |2025-12-18T14:00:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Integrated Adaptive Wing Technology Maturation wind-tunnel model installed in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.NASA / Mark Knopp The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today’s, with longer, thinner wings that [...]

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other

By |2025-12-18T12:56:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This panoramic view of SPHEREx’s first all-sky map shows how the sky looks to the telescope. It transitions between observations of colors emitted by hot hydrogen gas (blue) and cosmic dust (red), and those primarily emitted by stars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Launched in March, NASA’s [...]

NASA Welcomes 15th Administrator Jared Isaacman

By |2025-12-18T12:56:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, left, swears in Jared Isaacman, right, as the 15th administrator of NASA, as Isaacman’s parents, Donald and Sandra Marie, join on Dec. 18, 2025, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Jared Isaacman was sworn in Thursday as NASA’s 15th administrator by District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. [...]

A Look Back at NASA Stennis in 2025

By |2025-12-18T12:01:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In 2025, NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, marked a year of progress by supporting NASA’s Artemis campaign, celebrating historic milestones, and continuing its role as a trusted propulsion test partner at America’s largest rocket propulsion test site. “For more than [...]

2025 Science Activation Opportunity

By |2025-12-18T11:40:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read 2025 Science Activation Opportunity NASA Science encourages all people to actively participate in science through activities and resources developed by a collaborative network of project teams drawing on NASA SMD assets (science content, experts, data, etc.). Your team can apply to be part of this program. Opportunity NASA SMD seeks a portfolio of [...]

Payroll

By |2025-12-18T11:36:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

1 Min Read Payroll The NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) Payroll Office (NPO) reviews, validates, and delivers time and attendance data to the Department of the Interior (DOI) Interior Business Center (IBC) for NASA Centers.  NPO acts as liaison between Centers, employees and IBC for other payroll related activities such as supplemental payments, prior [...]

2025 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley 

By |2025-12-18T11:20:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley continued to make strides in research, technology, engineering, science, and innovation this past year. Join us as we take a look back at some of the highlights from 2025. From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II This video shows two simulations of the SLS [...]

NASA’s DiskSat Technology Demo Launches to Low Earth Orbit

By |2025-12-18T11:00:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A team of engineers at The Aerospace Corporation’s facility in El Segundo, California, gather around two completed DiskSats as they conduct final checks before shipment. From left: Albert Lin, DiskSat system engineer, Elijah Balcita, intern, Darren Rowen, DiskSat chief engineer, Catherine Venturini, DiskSat principal investigator, and Eric Breckheimer, NASA program office program manager at The [...]

NASA eClips STEM Student Ambassadors Shine at STEM Exploration Community Event

By |2025-12-18T10:19:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation NASA eClips STEM Student… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   3 min read NASA eClips STEM Student Ambassadors Shine at STEM Exploration Community Event STEM Student Ambassadors engage the community in learning about auroras. The 5th Annual Science, [...]

NASA Astronaut Lee Morin to Retire After 30 Years of Innovation

By |2025-12-18T10:19:00-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

STS110-E-5541 (13 April 2002) — Astronaut Lee M.E. Morin carries an affixed 35mm camera to record work which is being performed 240 miles above Earth on the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronaut and retired United States Navy Capt. Lee Morin has retired from the agency after 30 years of service. He served as a [...]

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