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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed

By |2025-12-04T12:38:00-05:00December 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Over the course of several hours, technicians meticulously connected the inner and outer segments of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. [...]

NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Jonny Kim, Crewmates Return

By |2025-12-04T11:41:00-05:00December 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands on April 20, 2025 (April 19 Eastern time) in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with the Expedition 71/72 crew aboard. NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, is preparing to depart the International Space [...]

NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction

By |2025-12-04T10:00:00-05:00December 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now fully assembled following the [...]

NASA Software Raises Bar for Aircraft Icing Research 

By |2025-12-04T10:00:00-05:00December 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Researchers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland used the Glenn Icing Computational Environment (GlennICE) software to create 3D computational models of this advanced air mobility rotor and study propeller icing issues. The physical model of this rotor was installed and tested in the [...]

Student Art Murals at Johnson Celebrate 25 Years of Humanity in Space 

By |2025-12-03T11:58:00-05:00December 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Select walls at NASA’s Johnson Space Center have been transformed into works of art. Each piece reflects creativity, collaboration, and the spirit of discovery. Painted by Texas students, the murals honor the legacy of the International Space Station and 25 years of continuous human presence in space.  The International Space Station Program Mural Project began [...]

NASA Rover Detects Electric Sparks in Mars Dust Devils, Storms

By |2025-12-03T11:31:00-05:00December 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Three Martian dust devils can be seen near the rim of Jezero Crater in this short video made of images taken by a navigation camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover on Sept. 6, 2025. The microphone on the [...]

Hazardous Material Summary Tables (HMSTs)

By |2025-12-03T08:39:00-05:00December 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A space toxicologist at NASA JSC.NASA Hazardous Materials Summary Tables (HMSTs) are a compilation of the chemical, biological, and flammability hazards of materials on a given flight or mission. HMSTs are required by Safety for all Programs, including but not limited to ISS, Commercial [...]

Toxicology Analysis of Spacecraft Air

By |2025-12-03T08:31:00-05:00December 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) SpaceX Crew-1 Pilot Victor Glover and Mission Specialist Shannon Walker work with a Grab Sample Container (GSC) in the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft while en route to the ISS.NASA Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry (TEC) monitors airborne contaminants in both spacecraft air and water. [...]

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Advances Research Aboard Space Station

By |2025-12-03T00:00:00-05:00December 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut Jonny Kim floats inside the Cupola of the International Space Station.NASA NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is wrapping up his first mission aboard the International Space Station in early December. During his stay, Kim conducted scientific experiments and technology demonstrations to benefit humanity [...]

NASA Awards Lunar Freezer System Contract

By |2025-12-02T16:12:00-05:00December 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide the necessary systems required to return temperature sensitive science payloads to Earth from the Moon. The Lunar Freezer System contract is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award with cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders. The contract begins Thursday, Dec. 4, with a 66-month base period along with two [...]

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