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Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn’s Enceladus

By |2024-08-25T09:09:06-04:00August 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Do underground oceans vent through canyons on Saturn's moon Enceladus? Long features dubbed tiger stripes are known to be spewing ice from the moon's icy interior into space, creating a cloud of fine ice particles over the moon's South Pole and creating Saturn's mysterious E-ring. Evidence for this has come [...]

The Making of Our Alien Earth: The Undersea Volcanoes of Santorini, Greece

By |2024-08-24T15:01:00-04:00August 24th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

14 Min Read The Making of Our Alien Earth: The Undersea Volcanoes of Santorini, Greece The expedition team and crew prepare to deploy Nereid Under Ice (NUI) into the sea. The following expedition marks the third installment of NASA Astrobiology’s fieldwork series, the newly rebranded Our Alien Earth, streaming on NASA+. Check out all [...]

NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew

By |2024-08-24T13:32:00-04:00August 24th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule docked to the Harmony module’s forward port at the International Space Station on July 3, 2024.Photo credit: NASA NASA will return Boeing’s Starliner to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the spacecraft, the agency announced Saturday during a news conference. The uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to continue gathering testing [...]

NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew 

By |2024-08-24T13:25:00-04:00August 24th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership participate in a live news conference on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston where they provided an update about NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test.Credit: NASA NASA will return Boeing’s Starliner to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the spacecraft, the [...]

August 2024 Transformer of the Month: Selina Salgado

By |2024-08-23T15:23:00-04:00August 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

As a Human Resource Business Partner at NASA Headquarters, Selina Salgado describes her job as helping with “all things people” for the enterprise. By facilitating technological solutions to human resources (HR) challenges and needs, she excels at an often-underestimated aspect of Digital Transformation (DT): the interpersonal side. As a champion of community building, knowledge [...]

NASA Ames Stars of the Month: August 2024

By |2024-08-23T13:53:00-04:00August 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Sangsavang Stevie Phothisane, Taryn Kavanagh, Andro Rios, and Hami Ray. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the talent, camaraderie, and vision needed to explore this world and beyond. Earth Science Star: Sangsavang Stevie Phothisane Sangsavang Stevie Phothisane, a Deputy [...]

First Look at Hybrid Electric Research Aircraft 

By |2024-08-23T13:20:00-04:00August 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Dash 7 that will be modified into a hybrid electric research vehicle under NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) project on display with its new livery for the first time. In front of the plane is an electric powertrain that magniX will integrate into the current aircraft to build a hybrid electric propulsion system.NASA/David [...]

NASA Funds Studies to Support Crew Performance on Long-Duration Missions

By |2024-08-23T13:00:00-04:00August 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The crew of the Human Exploration Research Analog’s Campaign 7 Mission 1 clasp hands above their simulated space habitat’s elevator shaft.Credit: NASA NASA is funding 11 new studies to better understand how to best support the health and performance of crew members during long-duration spaceflight missions. The awardees will complete the studies on Earth [...]

NASA Shares Asteroid Bennu Sample in Exchange with JAXA

By |2024-08-23T11:55:00-04:00August 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

As part of an asteroid sample exchange, NASA has transferred to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample collected by the agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission. The sample was officially handed over by NASA officials during a ceremony on Aug. 22 at JAXA’s Sagamihara, Japan, campus. The signature exchange for the Bennu [...]

NASA Astronauts Wilmore, Williams’ Space Station Science Highlights

By |2024-08-23T11:22:00-04:00August 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts (from top) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and the Starliner spacecraft.NASA NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, inspect safety hardware aboard the International [...]

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