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NASA’s SLS Solid Rocket Boosters: What is DM-1?

Demonstration Motor-1 (DM-1) is the first full-scale ground test of the evolved five-segment solid rocket motor of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The event will take place in Promontory, Utah, and will be used as an opportunity to test several upgrades made from the current solid rocket boosters. Each booster burns six tons of […]

Posted June 23, 2025

Artemis

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Science Activation

Mission Accomplished! Artemis ROADS III National Challenge Competitors Celebrate their Achievements

The NASA Science Activation program’s Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways (NESSP) team has successfully concluded the 2024–2025 Artemis ROADS III National Challenge, an educational competition that brought real NASA mission objectives to student teams (and reached more than 1,500 learners) across the country.

Posted June 23, 2025

Curiosity (Rover)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mars

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The Solar System

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Starts Unpacking Boxwork Formations

The rover recently drilled a sample from a new region with features that could reveal whether Mars’ subsurface once provided an environment suitable for life. New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only from orbit. The images and data being collected are already […]

Posted June 23, 2025

Mars

A Martian Volcano in the Mist

Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025. Odyssey used a camera called the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) to capture this view while studying the Martian atmosphere, which appears here as […]

Posted June 23, 2025

Blogs

Clay Minerals From Mars’ Most Ancient Past?

Recent detections of clay-bearing bedrock on Jezero’s crater rim have the Perseverance Science Team excited and eager to sample. Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D.

Posted June 23, 2025

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NASA Intern Took Career from Car Engines to Cockpits

Some career changes involve small shifts. But for one NASA engineering intern, the leap was much bigger –moving from under the hood of a car to helping air taxis take to the skies. Saré Culbertson spent more than a decade in the auto industry and had been working as a service manager in busy auto […]

Posted June 23, 2025

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NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program

Technology

NASA Fosters Innovative, Far-Out Tech for the Future of Aerospace

Through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA nurtures visionary yet credible concepts that could one day “change the possible” in aerospace, while engaging America’s innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey. These concepts span various disciplines and aim to advance capabilities such as finding resources on di

Posted June 23, 2025

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

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NASA Tests New RS-25 Engine

NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 20001 on June 20, at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during a launch of an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on […]

Posted June 23, 2025

Science & Research

Astromaterials

Johnson Space Center

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Heather Cowardin Safeguards the Future of Space Exploration

As branch chief of the Hypervelocity Impact and Orbital Debris Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Dr.

Posted June 23, 2025

Blogs

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4577-4579: Watch the Skies

Written by Deborah Padgett, OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, June 20, 2025 During the plan covering Sols 4575-4576, Curiosity continued our investigation of mysterious boxwork structures on the shoulders of Mount Sharp.

Posted June 21, 2025