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Persevering Through the Storm

By |2024-09-05T22:45:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Mars: Perseverance (Mars 2020) Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance [...]

Starliner Nears Departure, Crew Focuses on Space Research

By |2024-09-05T16:35:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is pictured from a window on the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. Mission managers have given the first “go” for the Boeing Starliner spacecraft to undock from the International Space Station at 6:04 p.m. EDT on Friday and land in New Mexico about six hours later. [...]

Sols 4295-4296: A Martian Moon and Planet Earth

By |2024-09-05T16:12:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions The Solar System The Sun [...]

NASA Selects Langley Research Center Support Contractor

By |2024-09-05T16:11:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has awarded the Center, Operations Maintenance, and Engineering II contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to support operations at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $973.7 million. Following a phase-in period that starts Tuesday, Oct. [...]

New Hardware for Future Artemis Moon Missions Arrive at NASA Kennedy

By |2024-09-05T15:29:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On the left, the Canopee transport carrier containing the European Service Module for NASA’s Artemis III mission arrives at Port Canaveral in Florida, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, before completing the last leg of its journey to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center’s Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout via truck. On the right, NASA’s Pegasus [...]

NASA’s Boeing Starliner Mission Landing Criteria, Timeline 

By |2024-09-05T10:58:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA and Boeing teams work around Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft after it landed at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico for the company’s Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2.NASA/Bill Ingalls As NASA and Boeing prepare to return the company’s Starliner spacecraft uncrewed from the International Space Station to Earth, safety and mission [...]

Join the Eclipsing Binary Patrol and Spot Rare Stellar Pairs!

By |2024-09-05T10:50:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Eclipsing binary stars point the way to exoplanets and many other discoveries. Be one of the first to join the new Eclipsing Binary Patrol project and help discover them! NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Eclipsing binaries are special pairs of stars that cross in front of one another as they orbit—stars that take turns blocking [...]

Ames Wind Tunnel

By |2024-09-05T10:49:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Construction of the Ames wind tunnel and its original 40- by 80-foot test section. A later expansion created an additional 80- by 120-foot test section. A Navy blimp, which would have been based at Hangars 2 and 3 at Moffett Field, patrols in the background. Image Credit: NACA [...]

NASA to Support DARPA Robotic Satellite Servicing Program

By |2024-09-05T10:30:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Two robotic arms wrapped in gold material sitting on top of a black and silver box.Naval Research Laboratory NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have signed an interagency agreement to collaborate on a satellite servicing demonstration in geosynchronous Earth orbit, where [...]

NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars’ Escaping Water

By |2024-09-05T10:00:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Hubble Space Telescope Home NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN… Missions Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science [...]

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