November 2023

General
Humans in Space
NASA hosted its second annual Architecture Concept Review in mid-November, bringing together leaders from across the agency to discuss progress on and updates to NASA’s Moon to Mars architecture since NASA released outcomes from its first such review in April.
Posted November 30, 2023
Earth
GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment)
GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on)
SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Water on Earth
As part of the long-standing partnership, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture to create an interactive digital experience around global freshwater.
Posted November 30, 2023
SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment)
Earth
Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) is using half a dozen. This month, mission members completed construction of the six identical cereal box-size satellites, which will now go into storage and await their final testing and ride to space.
Posted November 30, 2023
Aeronautics
“I want to help the Native community get better representation and show that we can help Native citizens get into aerospace engineering, mathematics, or [other STEM career fields]. And the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations are trying to do the same thing on their reservations. They have amazing education networks, so when I realized what they […]
Posted November 30, 2023
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope
Marshall Space Flight Center
Neutron Stars
Pulsars
Spitzer Space Telescope
The Universe
A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the globular cluster Omega Centauri is helping astronomers understand how these spider pulsars prey on their stellar companions.
Posted November 30, 2023
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
Nebulae
Planetary Nebulae
Stars
Terrestrial Exoplanets
The Universe
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the highly irradiated inner, rocky-planet-forming regions of a disk in one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy.
Posted November 30, 2023
“The goal is to get as many of the wrong ideas out of the way as early as possible.  “So we’ll come up with some idea, especially on the research side, and sometimes it will seem really brilliant on the napkin or in a conversation with one other person.  “[When I started working on electric […]
Posted November 30, 2023
Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Universe
Six “sub-Neptune” exoplanets orbit their star in a kind of rhythmic dance – one easily set to music.
Posted November 30, 2023
Marshall Space Flight Center
Artemis II Crew Enjoys Visit with Marshall Team Members By Wayne Smith From talking about continuing the legacy of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in space exploration to describing their roles in an upcoming historic mission, Artemis II astronauts enjoyed visiting with center team members Nov. 27. The crew will be the first to ride […]
Posted November 30, 2023
Former Astronauts
Astronauts
Retired NASA astronaut Mary Cleave, a veteran of two NASA spaceflights, died Nov. 27. She was 76. A scientist with training in civil and environmental engineering, as well as biological sciences and microbial ecology, Cleave was the first woman to serve as an associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
Posted November 30, 2023
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