NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research.
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3 min read Amateur Astronomers Help Discover Cosmic Crash NASA Volunteer Arttu Sainio saw the star Asassn-21qj brightening, possibly due to crashing planets. Credit: Dan Caselden, NASA Astronomers found what looks like a glowing cloud of dust from a massive planetary pile-up—and NASA volunteers helped make the discovery! A recent paper in Nature describes how an international group of professional and amateur astronomers teamed up to measure the heat glow of two ice giant planets colliding and see the resultant dust cloud moving in front of the parent star several years later. The story began back in 2021, when the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASA…
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5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) On Dec. 9, astronomers and physicists will commemorate two years of landmark X-ray science by NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission. IXPE is the joint NASA-Italian Space Agency mission to study polarized X-ray light. Polarization is a characteristic of light that can help reveal information about where that light came from, such as the geometry and inner workings of the ultra-powerful energy sources from which it emanates. A gif of IXPE deploying in space before starting its science operations to study the cosmos.NASA Launched Dec. 9, 2021, IXPE orbits Earth some …
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1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Pilot Kurt Blankenship in the cockpit. Credit: NASA/Bridget Caswell Get ready with Kurt Blankenship, a pilot at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, as he prepares for a research mission high above the clouds. Check out how the crew plan the route and goals, what it takes to get NASA’s Pilatus PC-12 aircraft in tip-top shape, and even what type of flight suits our pilots are rocking. These missions are integral to advancing communications technology and supporting NASA’s efforts to map out a safe, accessible, and affordable new air transportation system. Learn more. Credit: NAS…
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2 min read Hubble Captures a Cluster in the Cloud NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in the densely-packed cores of globular clusters like NGC 2210. ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini This striking Hubble Space Telescope image shows the densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210, which is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC lies about 157,000 light-years from Earth and is a so-called satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, meaning that the two galaxies are gravitationally bound. Globular clusters are very stable, tightly bound clusters of thousands or even millions of stars. Their stability means t…
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2022-07-07 08:54 Current Status: Open – HURCON V The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) is open. For more information about the NASA Framework for Return to On-Site Work visit nasapeople.nasa.gov. MAF urges it’s employees to be safe at all times. MAF is currently in Hurricane Condition V (Tropical Storm Readiness) Hurricane Season is in effect from June 1st to November 30th. Please make sure that you have work and personal plan. GET A GAME PLAN AND BE PREPARED For more planning information, please refer to http://getagameplan.org for information and sign up for the MAF Alert system for up to date MAF emergency information. Visit member.everbri…
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NASA NASA has selected the following companies for a multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to fabricate ground support equipment at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida: Engraver Metal Fabricators Inc., Merritt Island, Florida J.P. Donovan Construction Inc., Rockledge, Florida Precision Fabricating and Cleaning Co. Inc., Cocoa, Florida The work will support Artemis, including missions to land the first woman and person of color on the Moon. The contractors will provide management, labor, facilities, materials, equipment, and other incidental support to fabricate, mark, package, deliver, clean, assemble, and test ground s…
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1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Anabel Falcon Anabel Falcon, Center Operations Directorate, retired Nov. 30, 2023, with 34 years of NASA service. Credit: NASA Tom Parkey Tom Parkey, Program Planning and Control Office, retired Nov. 30, 2023 ,with 35 years of federal service, including 20 years with NASA. Credit: NASA Explore More 2 min read NASA Podcasts Now Available on Spotify Article 1 day ago …
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NASA / Michael DeMocker On Nov. 16, 2023, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (left) and Christina Koch (middle) of NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen (second from left) view the core stage for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The three astronauts, along with NASA’s Victor Glover, will launch atop the rocket stage to venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed flight for Artemis. The astronauts’ visit to Michoud coincided with the first anniversary of the launch of Artemis I. The uncrewed flight test of SLS and Orion was the first in a series of increasingly complex missions for A…
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Title: NASA Explorers Season 6, Episode 4: Preparing for the Asteroid
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3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) he Autonomous Systems Laboratory team at NASA’s Stennis Space Center recently cleared a major milestone for a historic in-flight mission to demonstrate the capabilities of a site-developed autonomous software package. The NASA Stennis team passed its software Flight Readiness Review for the first flight opportunity of ASTRA (Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications), a partnership effort with Sidus Space. The aerospace company is set to launch its premier satellite platform, LizzieSat (LS), designed to provide turnkey access to space, in 2024. ASTRA Flight Software Vers…
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2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Video Credit: NASA/Steven Logan Air taxis hold the promise to revolutionize air transportation. NASA is working to make this vision a reality, collaborating with industry to reduce aircraft noise in our communities. Quiet flight will be especially important when air taxis and drones take off and land in future airports called vertiports that can be integrated into both rural and urban communities. So, N…
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23 Min Read The Marshall Star for December 6, 2023 Marshall Kicks Off Holiday Season with Tree-Lighting Ceremony NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center celebrated its annual tree-lighting ceremony in the courtyard of Building 4221 on Nov 30. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center team members and family members form a circle as they bask in the light of the 32-foot artificial tree decorated with blue lights and a 10-pointed star representing each NASA center. NASA/Charles Beason Marshall team members and their children gathered for the lighting of the 32-foot artificial tree decorated w…
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NASA is marking 25 years since the first two elements of the International Space Station were launched and joined in space. Today, the space station remains a global endeavor with 273 people from 21 countries now having visited the microgravity laboratory and has hosted more than 3,700 research and educational investigations from people in 108 countries and areas. Left: Launch of space shuttle Endeavour from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the STS-88 mission to deliver the Unity Node 1 module. Middle: The STS-88 crew. Right: The Unity Node 1 module being lifted out of the cargo bay. On Nov. 20 and Dec. 4, 1998, Zarya and Unity, respectively, launched …
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NASA The mated Russian-built Zarya (left) and U.S.-built Unity modules are backdropped against the blackness of space and Earth’s horizon shortly after leaving Endeavour’s cargo bay on Dec. 13, 1998. A few days earlier, on Dec. 6, 1998, the space shuttle Endeavour, mission STS-88, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the Unity connecting module and two pressurized mating adapters. The same day, the STS-88 crew captured the Russian Zarya module, launched Nov. 20, and mated it with the Unity node. Unity was the first piece of the International Space Station provided by the United States. The components in the current space station were built i…
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3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft’s pressurized cargo module for the company’s 20th commercial resupply mission is lifted and moved by crane inside the high bay in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Cygnus, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, will liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.NASA/Ben Smegelsky Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This launch is the 20th Northrop Grumman commercial resu…
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The PACE spacecraft is inspected and cleaned on a spacecraft dolly in a high bay at Astrotech Space Operation in Titusville, Florida on December 4, 2023. Engineers are executing a comprehensive performance test to ensure the PACE spacecraft is ready for launch. NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will study what makes Earth so different from every other planet we study: life itself. PACE will extend and improve upon NASA’s 20-plus years of global satellite observations of our living ocean, atmospheric aerosols, and clouds. It will also continue key measurements related to air quality and initiate an advanced set of climate-relevant data record…
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2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s podcasts let you experience the thrill of space exploration without ever leaving Earth. Credit: NASA NASA recently released its collection of original podcasts on Spotify, giving more people access to in-depth conversations, stories, and Spanish-language content as the agency works to explore the unknown in air and space. NASA now offers five podcasts on Spotify, including: NASA’s Curious Universe Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists, and engineers on a new adventure each episode — all you need is your curiosity! First-time sp…
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2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) What do a rover, an astronaut, and a rally towel have in common? They all came together for a NASA-filled weekend in Pittsburgh on Dec. 2 and 3. Dr. Jimmy Kenyon, director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, and NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg, who piloted NASA’s recent SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station, met with students from Carnegie Mellon University. The students built the Iris lunar rover. Iris is one of several payloads scheduled to launch aboard Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket later this month. The l…
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1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Glenn Research Center Deputy Director Dawn Schaible provided an overview to more than 20 mayors and city manager from northeast Ohio during an event at the Ohio Aerospace Institute in Brook Park, Ohio, on Nov. 9. She highlighted Glenn’s work and the positive impact it has on the local community, state, and region. Following the event, the group toured several test and research facilities at NASA Glenn’s Lewis Field. Northeast Ohio Mayors and City Managers Association members gather in front of NASA Glenn Research Center’s hangar. Credit: NASA/Quentin SchwinnView the full article
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4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) By Savannah Bullard The stage is set for the finale of NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge. Conceived in 2020, Break the Ice tasked innovators with creating robotic systems that can traverse the volatile terrain of the Lunar South Pole. These robots must be able to dig into the Moon’s regolith – the dusty, icy “dirt” that makes up the lunar surface – and transport it to a secondary location for in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) processing. If deployed on a NASA mission, these systems would operate in the permanently shadowed regions of the Moon, an area that receives no sunl…
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3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA released its free Open Science 101 curriculum Wednesday to empower researchers, early career scientists, and underrepresented communities with the knowledge and tools necessary to embrace open science practices. The curriculum’s initial goal is to train 20,000 scientists and researchers over the next five years, enabling them to embrace open science practices and maximize the impact of their work. “NASA is committed to ensuring people around the world have equal and open access to science data whenever they need it,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “This innovati…
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Faces of NASA features Ames Research Center Pilot David Zahn In November 2023, “Faces of NASA” featured an aeronautics pilot from NASA Ames Research Center. Learn more about David Zahn and his story at https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-research-pilot-david-zahn/. David Zahn pilots the ownship aircraft in the VMS’s R-Cab during the AVA-1h simulation in the VMS at NASA Ames Research Center.NASA / Dominic HartView the full article
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5 Min Read NASA’s Psyche Delivers First Images and Other Data This mosaic was made from “first light” images acquired Dec. 4 by both of the cameras on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. The star field lies in the constellation Pisces. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU The mission team has celebrated several successes since its launch from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 13. The latest is the operation of the spacecraft’s cameras. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on a roll. In the eight weeks since it left Earth on Oct. 13, the orbiter ha…
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A pair of precision-orbiting small satellites will attempt to capture the first views ever of small-scale features near the surface of the Sun that scientists believe drive the heating and acceleration of solar wind. Heliophysicist Dr. Doug Rabin at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said photon sieves, a technology that can focus extreme ultraviolet light, should be able to resolve features 10 to 50 times smaller than what can be seen today with the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s EUV imager. Photon sieves like this are cut from a single wafer of silicon or niobium to focus extreme ultraviolet light – a difficult wavelength to capture.NASA / …
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NASA/Aubrey Gemignani The Moon, left, Saturn, upper right, and Jupiter, lower right, are seen after sunset from Washington, DC, on Dec. 17, 2020. The two planets drew closer to each other in the sky as they headed towards a “great conjunction” on Dec. 21, where the two giant planets appeared a tenth of a degree apart. View and download the full image here. See skywatching highlights, including meteor, asteroid, and planet sightings in What’s Up for Dec. 2023. Image Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani View the full article
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