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NASA, NOAA to Hold Joint Session at 23rd Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

By |2026-06-10T14:09:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

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NASA Equips Astronauts, Industry with Robotic Intelligence 

By |2026-06-10T13:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In the Integrated Mobile Evaluation Testbed for Robotics Operations facility at Johnson Space Center, PickNik robotic control software proved its prowess in tasks like passing cargo transfer bags through a hatch and placing them in storage bins, in anticipation of work NASA would like [...]

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Train Ride to NASA Kennedy for Artemis III Booster Segments

By |2026-06-10T12:05:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Brandon Hancock The final booster motor segments for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will help propel Artemis III astronauts on their journey to space shipped from Northrop Grumman’s Railyard Shipping Facility in Corinne, Utah on June 2. The eight booster motor segments are on their way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida [...]

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NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’

By |2026-06-10T10:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA Webb Finds Strongest… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early [...]

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Jim Irons, Former Landsat Project Scientist, Wins Pecora Award

By |2026-06-10T10:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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GLOBE Mission Earth Educators Participate in Land Cover Community of Practice

By |2026-06-10T08:43:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation GLOBE Mission Earth Educators… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   3 min read GLOBE Mission Earth Educators Participate in Land Cover Community of Practice During the 2025-2026 school year, educators from the NASA Science Activation Program’s GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the [...]

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NASA’s CloudCube Pioneers Miniaturized Radar to Study Clouds, Precipitation

By |2026-06-10T08:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A compact, multifrequency radar built by a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will make it easier to collect information about dynamic cloud systems. Called CloudCube, this new instrument simultaneously probes the atmosphere with three radar signals, spanning 36 to 240 GHz, for optimized sensitivity to a wide range of water droplet and ice particle sizes.  Figure 1: A prototype of CloudCube’s G-band channel [...]

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Flight Dynamics Research Facility Characteristics

By |2026-06-09T16:47:00-04:00June 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) HomeCharacteristics The Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF) is a large, subsonic wind tunnel with a vertical test section for conducting flight dynamics research for stability, controllability, free-fall and aircraft spin, and spin recovery testing of atmospheric vehicles. Characteristics Test Section Dimensions: 20 ft. diam. by [...]

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Artemis III Crew Announced

By |2026-06-09T15:32:00-04:00June 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA/Robert Markowitz NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, and NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio take a photo together on June 9, 2026. The four were announced as the Artemis III crew. NASA’s Artemis III mission in low Earth orbit will test integrated operations between the Orion spacecraft and [...]

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La NASA avanza hacia la misión Artemis III en 2027 y anuncia a su tripulación

By |2026-06-09T12:19:00-04:00June 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

La tripulación de Artemis III posa para una foto oficial en sus trajes espaciales naranjas (de izquierda a derecha: Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik y Frank Rubio). Crédito: NASA/Bill Stafford Read this release in English here. La NASA dio el martes otro paso hacia una de las misiones tripuladas más complejas de la historia [...]

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