February 2024

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Posted February 27, 2024

Artemis

Artemis 2

Exploration Ground Systems

Humans in Space

Artemis II Crew, Recovery Teams Train for Final Phase of Moon Mission

NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover is assisted by U.S. Navy personnel as he exits a mockup of the Orion spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean during training Feb. 25, while his crewmates look on. The Artemis II crew and a team from NASA and the Department of Defense are spending several days at […]

Posted February 26, 2024

ISS Research

NASA’s SpaceX 30th Resupply Mission to Launch Experiments to Station

NASA and the agency’s international partners are sending scientific investigations to the International Space Station on the 30th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission, including tests of technologies to monitor sea ice, automate 3D mapping, and create nanoparticle solar cells.

Posted February 26, 2024

Virtual Guest Program

Commercial Crew

Commercial Space Programs

International Space Station (ISS)

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Invites You to Share Excitement of Agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launch

NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities for the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station.

Posted February 26, 2024

Asteroids

Deep Space Network

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)

Planetary Defense

Planetary Defense Coordination Office

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA)

Space Communications & Navigation Program

NASA’s Planetary Radar Images Slowly Spinning Asteroid

During the close approach of 2008 OS7 with Earth on Feb. 2, the agency’s Deep Space Network planetary radar gathered the first detailed images of the stadium-size asteroid. On Feb. 2, a large asteroid safely drifted past Earth at a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers, or 7 ½ times the distance […]

Posted February 26, 2024

NASA Headquarters

International Space Station (ISS)

NASA Names New Station Manager, Space Operations Deputy

NASA has selected Dana Weigel as the International Space Station Program manager, based at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Weigel succeeds Joel Montalbano, who has accepted a position as deputy associate administrator for the agency’s Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Posted February 26, 2024

Artemis

Artemis 2

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

NASA, Partners Test Artemis II Recovery Procedures

Members of NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team work to secure the Crew Module Test Article and align it on its stand inside the ship’s well deck in this image from Feb. 22, 2024. Underway Recovery Test 11 is the eleventh in a series of Artemis recovery tests, and the first time NASA […]

Posted February 26, 2024

Scientific Balloons

Astrophysics Explorers Program

GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory)

Wallops Flight Facility

GUSTO Breaks NASA Scientific Balloon Record for Days in Flight

Editor’s note: This story was updated to state that the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs oversees the U.S.

Posted February 26, 2024

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s LRO Images Intuitive Machine’s Odysseus Lander

On Feb. 22, Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, called Odysseus, completed a seven-day journey to lunar orbit and softly landed near crater Malapert A in the South Pole region of the Moon at 6:24 p.m. EST. On Feb. 24, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft passed over the landing site at an altitude of about 56 miles […]

Posted February 26, 2024

Missions

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Goddard Space Flight Center