January 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center
Alongside experts from academia and industry, leaders from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will be on hand at the Feb. 25–29 PowerSource Global Summit conference in Orlando. Dr.
Posted January 19, 2024
STEM Engagement at NASA
International Space Station (ISS)
Students, staff, and researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and two local public schools in Boston will have an opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 9:55 a.m. EST Tuesday, Jan.
Posted January 19, 2024
NASA History
The new year of 1969 dawned with optimism that NASA would meet President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. The previous year saw four Apollo missions, two uncrewed and two carrying three astronauts each, test different components of the lunar landing architecture, culminating […]
Posted January 19, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Supernovae
The Universe
This image features a relatively small galaxy known as UGC 5189A, which is located about 150 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study a supernova explosion in 2010 known as SN 2010jl.
Posted January 19, 2024
Humans in Space
Commercial Crew
Commercial Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
As part of NASA’s efforts to enable more access to space, four private astronauts are in orbit following the successful launch of the third all private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Axiom Space astronauts lifted off at 4:49 p.m. EST on Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]
Posted January 19, 2024
Galaxies
Galaxy clusters
Hubble Space Telescope
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies – NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral – that are in the midst of a collision.
Posted January 18, 2024
AeroSpace Frontiers
General
Glenn Research Center
International Space Station (ISS)
Reliable space communication and navigation systems are critical to every NASA mission. From the Voyager mission exploring beyond our solar system to astronauts aboard the International Space Station, space communications provide the crucial connection to our home planet.
Posted January 18, 2024
AeroSpace Frontiers
Glenn Research Center
NASA’s Glenn Research Center continued a decades-long tradition of participating in the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program during the 2023 holiday season. On Dec. 11, members of the Marine Corps Reserve (3rd Battalion, 25th  Marine unit) picked up 10 boxes of toys donated by employees from NASA Glenn’s Lewis Field in Cleveland and Neil […]
Posted January 18, 2024
AeroSpace Frontiers
Glenn Research Center
Two members of NASA Glenn Research Center’s senior leadership retired on Dec. 30, 2023.  Timothy P. McCartney, director of Aeronautics, retired with 38 1/2 years of NASA service.
Posted January 18, 2024
ISS Research
AcrimSat (Active Cavity Irradiance Monitor Satellite)
Science in Space January 2024 Crew members on the International Space Station have a lot of company – millions of bacteria and other microbes. The human body contains 10 times more microbes than human cells, and bacteria and fungi grow in and on just about everything around us on Earth. Most bacteria are harmless, and […]
Posted January 18, 2024
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