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NASA Rocket Discovers New Energization Process in Upper Atmosphere

By |2024-07-22T16:18:00-04:00July 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A timelapse of the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) mission launching from Andøya Space Center in Andenes, Norway on Dec. 8, 2018. NASA/Jamie Adkins When it comes to discoveries about our upper atmosphere, it pays to know your surroundings. Using data from the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) rocket launch, [...]

Chandra Sees the Peacock’s Galaxy

By |2024-07-22T16:09:00-04:00July 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is interacting with a smaller galaxy to the upper left. The smaller galaxy has likely stripped gas from NGC 6872 to feed the supermassive black hole in its center.X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt, L. Frattare, and J. Major To commemorate the 25th anniversary of NASA’s Chandra [...]

Seed Funding Proposals Due November 19 This Year!

By |2024-07-22T15:02:00-04:00July 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Since it began in 2020, NASA’s Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP) has helped twenty-four new NASA citizen science projects get off the ground. This one-year funding opportunity aims to expand the pool of professional scientists who use citizen science techniques in their science investigations. We’d like to remind you about two key changes to the CSSFP program [...]

25 Images to Celebrate NASA’s Chandra 25th Anniversary

By |2024-07-22T14:06:00-04:00July 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/SAO/CXC This montage contains 25 new images with data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory that is being released to commemorate the telescope’s 25th anniversary in space, as described in our latest press release. Since its launch into space on July 23, 1999, Chandra has been NASA’s flagship mission for X-ray astronomy in its fleet of [...]

Ground Antenna Trio to Give NASA’s Artemis Campaign ‘LEGS’ to Stand On

By |2024-07-22T13:33:00-04:00July 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

New 66-foot-wide antenna dishes will be built, online, and operational in time to provide near-continuous communications services to Artemis astronauts at the Moon later this decade. Called LEGS, short for Lunar Exploration Ground Sites, the antennas represent critical infrastructure for NASA’s vision of supporting a sustained human presence at the Moon. The first three [...]

Eileen Collins Broke Barriers as America’s First Female Space Shuttle Commander

By |2024-07-22T13:00:00-04:00July 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read Eileen Collins Broke Barriers as America’s First Female Space Shuttle Commander Astronauts Eileen M. Collins, mission commander and Jeffrey S. Ashby, pilot, peruse checklists on Columbia's middeck during the STS-93 mission. Credits: NASA At the end of February 1998, Johnson Space Center Deputy Director James D. Wetherbee called Astronaut Eileen Collins [...]

NASA Research Volunteers to Begin Next Simulated Mission to Mars

By |2024-07-22T10:35:00-04:00July 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The latest crew chosen by NASA to venture on a simulated trip to Mars inside the agency’s Human Exploration Research Analog. From left are Sergii Iakymov, Erin Anderson, Brandon Kent, and Sarah Elizabeth McCandless.Credit: C7M3 Crew NASA selected a new team of four research volunteers to participate in a simulated mission to Mars within HERA [...]

LIVE: NASA is with you from Oshkosh

By |2024-07-21T22:30:00-04:00July 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA / Maria Werries NASA Aeronautics Returns to Oshkosh Sunday, July 21 at 8:30 p.m. EDT NASA will appear at Oshkosh with a full slate of interactive exhibits, informative activities, and fascinating people to meet. But if you can’t make it we’ve got you [...]

King of Wings Hoodoo under the Milky Way

By |2024-07-21T09:09:15-04:00July 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This rock structure is not only surreal -- it's real. Perhaps the reason it's not more famous is that it is smaller than one might guess: the capstone rock overhangs only a few meters. Even so, the King of Wings outcrop, located in New Mexico, USA, is a fascinating example [...]

NASA to Host Panels, Forums, and More at Oshkosh 2024

By |2024-07-19T16:21:00-04:00July 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s pavilion as it will look at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024 is seen in this illustration, Flying into the graphic, clockwise from upper left: the X-66 sustainable flight demonstrator, X-59 quiet supersonic demonstrator, Saab 340B, a small drone, an air taxi concept, and a [...]

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