January 2024

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Missions
NASA Headquarters
As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, media accreditation is open for Intuitive Machines’ first robotic flight to the Moon’s surface. The robotic deliveries will transport agency science and technology demonstrations to the Moon for the benefit of all.
Posted January 22, 2024
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Star-forming Nebulae
The Universe
The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new Priority Mail stamps celebrating NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful, and most complex telescope ever put in space. The stamps, issued Jan. 22, feature images of the cosmos captured by Webb since it began its science mission in 2022. Webb is a mission led […]
Posted January 22, 2024
Artemis
Internships
Johnson Space Center
In this image from May 22, 2023, a NASA intern uses an augmented reality headset to test out heads-up display technology being developed for future Artemis missions.
Posted January 22, 2024
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
STEM Engagement at NASA
The annual competition aims to help students expand their ocean-related knowledge outside the classroom and to become environmental stewards. University High School of Irvine, California, emerged victorious on Jan. 20 at the Los Angeles regional Ocean Sciences Bowl tournament, which NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has hosted annually since 2000.
Posted January 22, 2024
Glenn History
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
NASA History
“[On December 15, 1941] a few shivering, startled Southerners from Langley, the vanguard of those in the Power Plants Division transferring to Cleveland, arrived in the biggest snowstorm in years,” recalled former receptionist Mary Louise Gosney.
Posted January 22, 2024
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
Arp 300 consists of two interacting galaxies, UGC 05028 (the smaller face-on spiral galaxy) and UGC 05029 (the larger face-on spiral). Likely due to its gravitational dance with its larger partner, UGC 05028 has an asymmetric, irregular structure, which is not as visible from ground-based telescopes but is quite distinct in this new image from […]
Posted January 22, 2024
NASA Headquarters
Bill Nelson
Editor’s note: This news release was updated on Jan. 22, 2024, to adjust the list of participants at Marshall Space Flight Center. In honor of the members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery for the benefit all, the agency will host its annual Day of […]
Posted January 20, 2024
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Johnson Space Center
NASA Headquarters
The first flight of NASA’s commercial lunar delivery service carrying agency science and technology, as well as other customer payloads intended for the Moon, has come to an end. After 10 days and 13 hours in space, Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One made a controlled re-entry on Earth over open water in the South Pacific at […]
Posted January 19, 2024
“[In] everyone’s life, they have a pivotal moment when they ask the question, ‘What am I really doing? What am I here for?’ … I’m reminded of a credo that I came up [with] through the evolution of my engagement of a whole bunch of recreational pursuits [including being a marathoner, ultrarunner, and Ironman triathlete] […]
Posted January 19, 2024
Johnson Space Center
OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)
The astromaterials curation team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has completed the disassembly of the OSIRIS-REx sampler head to reveal the remainder of the asteroid Bennu sample inside. On Jan.
Posted January 19, 2024
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