February 2024

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
NASA is gearing up for a commercial robotic flight to the Moon under the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign. Intuitive Machines will launch its Nova-C lander on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 14, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Posted February 13, 2024
Galaxies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
NGC 4254, a spiral galaxy, is resplendent in orange and blue in this Jan. 29, 2024, image from the James Webb Space Telescope. This is one of 19 nearby spiral galaxies recently imaged by the telescope as part of the long-standing Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program supported by more than […]
Posted February 13, 2024
General
Ames Research Center
Earth's Moon
In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
A team of engineers prepares to integrate TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain – into the belly of NASA’s first robotic Moon rover, VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover).  TRIDENT, designed and developed by engineers at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, is the fourth and final science instr
Posted February 13, 2024
Perseverance (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars 2020
Engineers are working to stabilize a dust cover on one of the science instrument’s cameras. Data and imagery from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate one of two covers that keep dust from accumulating on the optics of the SHERLOC instrument remains partially open. In this position, the cover interferes with science data collection operations.
Posted February 13, 2024
NASA History
Apollo
In early 1969, the goal set by President John F. Kennedy to land a man on the Moon seemed within reach. A new president, Richard M. Nixon, now sat in the White House and needed to chart America’s course in space in the post-Apollo era. President Nixon directed his science advisor to evaluate proposals for […]
Posted February 13, 2024
International Space Station (ISS)
Commercial Resupply
ISS Research
SpaceX Commercial Resupply
Media accreditation is open at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-30) mission to the International Space Station for the agency.
Posted February 13, 2024
People of Goddard
Goddard Space Flight Center
People of NASA
Research scientist Sujung Go analyzes atmospheric data to help humanity and the environment. Name: Sujung Go Title: Research scientist Organization: Climate and Radiation Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science Directorate (Code 613) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? I work in the team of Dr.
Posted February 13, 2024
Learning Resources
NASA astronauts must prepare their bodies for the physical stresses of living and working in microgravity before they launch on a spaceflight.
Posted February 13, 2024
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Technology
NASA is using a simple but effective technology called Laser Retroreflective Arrays (LRAs) to determine the locations of lunar landers more accurately. They will be attached to most of the landers from United States companies as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Service (CLPS) initiative.
Posted February 13, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Airborne Science
DC-8
Earth Science
General
Langley Research Center
Science in the Air
NASA and international researchers are studying the air quality in Asia as part of a global effort to better understand the air we breathe.
Posted February 12, 2024
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