October 2023

General

As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids, extracting oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, and revolutionizing flight have been named TIME’s Inventions of 2023. TIME announced the honorees on Oct. 24.

Posted October 27, 2023

NASA Centers & Facilities

Artemis

Gateway Program

Kennedy Space Center

Mars

People of NASA

NASA, JAXA Benefit from Collaborative Fellowship Experience

A yearlong journey of cultural and professional development overseas has a NASA Deep Space Logistics employee excited about current and future collaboration with one of America’s key international partners in the agency’s Artemis program. Katherine Cook, who develops cargo delivery services for NASA’s Gateway, recently returned to the agency’s K

Posted October 27, 2023

NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)

Earth

Earth Science

Earth Science Division

Earth System Observatory (ESO)

NASA-ISRO Radar Mission to Provide Dynamic View of Forests, Wetlands

NISAR will help researchers explore how changes in Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change.

Posted October 27, 2023

NASA en español Senior Science Writer and Editor Noelia González

“Obviously, Spanish has a lot to do with accessibility and broadening our audiences. We are using Spanish as a tool to break those barriers to connect with audiences. Spanish is the language I grew up with in Uruguay, and the language that I feel more comfortable with. It is amazing that I get to use […]

Posted October 27, 2023

NASA History

Join NASA to Celebrate Worm Design, Influence with Original Designer

Media are invited to hear a discussion on the design and cultural significance of the worm logotype with NASA and its creator Richard Danne at 11:30 a.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 6, at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. The logotype, a simple, red unique type style of the word NASA, replaced the agency’s official logo […]

Posted October 27, 2023

Astrophysics

Heliophysics Division

Sounding Rockets

Sounding Rockets Program

NASA Rocket to See Sizzling Edge of Star-Forming Supernova

A new sounding rocket mission is headed to space to understand how explosive stellar deaths lay the groundwork for new star systems. The Integral Field Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Experiment, or INFUSE, sounding rocket mission, will launch from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Oct. 29, 2023, at 9:35 p.m. MDT. For a few months […]

Posted October 27, 2023

Kennedy Space Center

Commercial Crew

Commercial Space

Commercial Space Programs

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

Progress Continues Toward NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to Station

NASA and Boeing are working to complete the agency’s verification and validation activities ahead of Starliner’s first flight with astronauts to the International Space Station.

Posted October 27, 2023

Humans in Space

Commercial Crew

Commercial Space

Commercial Space Programs

International Space Station (ISS)

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Updates Commercial Crew Planning Manifest

NASA and its industry partners Boeing and SpaceX are planning for the next set of missions to the International Space Station for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Crew-8 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the orbiting laboratory is targeted to launch no earlier than mid-February.

Posted October 27, 2023

Glenn History

Glenn Research Center

NASA History

Glenn Hangar Has Long Been the Face of the Center

The Flight Research Building, or hangar, at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has not only housed the center’s aircraft and Flight Operations team for decades, but has also served as a visual representation of the center for the public. NASA has taken advantage of the hangar’s size and shape — along with its location […]

Posted October 27, 2023

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe