December 2023

Lead Space Launch System Avionics Engineer Ales-Cia Winsley

“I was on console as a part of the primary launch team [for Artemis I]. I was the Orion system specialist for Guidance, Navigation, and Control. … In a few missions, we’re sending astronauts to the Moon again, so being a part of the very, very first mission [was memorable]. … I wasn’t here in […]

Posted December 11, 2023

Advanced Air Transport Technology

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Aeronautics

Airborne Science

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Green Aviation Tech

NASA and Partners Study Contrail Formation

In a collaboration between multiple partners in the aviation industry, NASA is helping determine if the latest advances in aircraft engines and fuels can reduce atmospheric warming from condensation trails.

Posted December 11, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Missions

Nebulae

Science Mission Directorate

Stars

Supernovae

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star

Mysterious features hide in near-infrared light Like a shiny, round ornament ready to be placed in the perfect spot on a holiday tree, supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) gleams in a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. As part of the 2023 Holidays at the White House, First Lady of the United States […]

Posted December 11, 2023

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Students Create Elaborate Homemade Machines for JPL Competition

To compete in a race against the clock and each other, 18 student teams built complicated contraptions for the annual Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some 250 students hauled homemade machines they’d spent weeks honing to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Friday, Dec.

Posted December 9, 2023

What We Do

Pamela A. Melroy

Annual Science Conference to Feature NASA Leadership, Research

Annual Science Conference to Feature NASA Leadership, Research NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will discuss the agency’s Artemis program during her keynote remarks in mid-December at the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2023 annual meeting in San Francisco.

Posted December 8, 2023

Artemis

Artemis 2

Kennedy Space Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

Artemis II Booster Surges Ahead at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers and technicians process the right forward center segment of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Nov. 28, 2023. The ongoing processing of the segments is the first step before stacking operations begin and the segments will form the twin […]

Posted December 8, 2023

Airborne Science

Ames Research Center

Animal Biology

Earth

Earth System Observatory (ESO)

Ecostress (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station)

EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation)

International Space Station (ISS)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Plant Biology

NASA Helps Study One of the World’s Most Diverse Ecosystems

NASA satellite and airborne tools aid an international team studying biodiversity on land and in the water around South Africa. An international team of researchers spent October and November 2023 in the field studying one of the world’s most biologically diverse areas – South Africa’s Greater Cape Floristic Region.

Posted December 8, 2023

NASA Names Winners of 2023 NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge

NASA is announcing final winners of the 2023 NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge, which focused this year on lunar exploration and climate science. Entrepreneurs from across the United States came together at the Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit and Expo in Washington to pitch their ideas to a panel of NASA judges and venture experts.

Posted December 8, 2023

Heliophysics

NASA Headquarters

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Space Weather

NASA Signs Memorandum of Agreement for Space Weather

On Dec. 7, 2023, Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, signed on behalf of the agency the Memorandum of Agreement for Space Weather Research-To-Operations-To-Research Collaboration.

Posted December 8, 2023

Goddard Space Flight Center

Earth

NASA Laser Reflecting Instruments to Help Pinpoint Earth Measurements

The best known use of GPS satellites is to help people know their location whether driving a car, navigating a ship or plane, or trekking across remote territory. Another important, but lesser-known, use is to distribute information to other Earth-viewing satellites to help them pinpoint measurements of our planet.

Posted December 8, 2023