March 2024

International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
SpaceX Commercial Resupply
New research and technology demonstrations for NASA are set to launch aboard the agency’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for 4:55 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 21, lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Posted March 15, 2024
Citizen Science
Planetary Science
Some extraordinary asteroids have “activity”—comet-like tails or envelopes of gas and dust.  NASA’s Active Asteroids project announced the discovery of activity on fifteen asteroids, challenging conventional wisdom about the solar system.
Posted March 15, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
People of NASA
Women at NASA
Women's History Month
The National Space Council hosted the Women in Space Roundtable on Monday, March 12, and Deputy Center Director Laurie Grindle from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was there to welcome Second Gentleman Mr. Douglas Emhoff and moderate a panel discussion.
Posted March 15, 2024
Mars
Mars Exploration Program
Mars Moons
Martian Moon Exploration (MMX)
Phobos
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
On March 14, NASA delivered its gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer instrument to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) for integration onto JAXA’s MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission spacecraft and final system-level testing.   NASA’s Mars-moon Exploration with Gamma Ray and Neutrons (MEGANE) instrument, developed by the Johns Hopkins Appli
Posted March 15, 2024
This majestic image of the dazzling green lights of the aurora borealis was captured on March 17, 2015, around 5:30 a.m. EDT in Donnelly Creek, Alaska.
Posted March 15, 2024
Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS)
Technology
Technology for Space Travel
NASA selected 45 student essays as semifinalists of its 2024 Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes.
Posted March 15, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Featured Careers
Life at NASA
NASA Centers & Facilities
People of NASA
What We Do
Women at NASA
Women's History Month
In honor of Women’s History Month, we recently sat down with Sarah Mann, public affairs specialist and member of the Women’s Networking Group (WNG) at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, to learn more about her role and working at NASA. What do you do at NASA and how do you help support […]
Posted March 15, 2024
2024 Solar Eclipse
Citizen Science
Eclipses
Skywatching
Solar Eclipses
Imagine standing outside on a cool spring day when all at once, the clouds shift and sunlight streams down, bathing you with warmth. In moments like this, you might notice – and appreciate – the Sun just a little bit more, but you feel the Sun’s influence every day, even when you don’t feel the […]
Posted March 15, 2024
Human Landing System Program
Artemis
General
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology Demonstration
Technology Demonstration Missions Program
As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign to return humans to the Moon for the benefit of all, the agency is working with SpaceX to develop the company’s Starship human landing system (HLS), which will land astronauts near the Moon’s South Pole during the Artemis III and Artemis IV missions. On March 14, SpaceX launched the […]
Posted March 14, 2024
NASA en español
Astronauts
Expedition 69
Frank Rubio
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
NASA Headquarters
Stephen G. Bowen
Read this release in English here. La NASA ofrecerá una rueda de prensa con cuatro astronautas a las 9:30 a.m. EDT (hora del este de EE.UU.) del martes 19 de marzo en la sede de la agencia en Washington. La tripulación, entre la que se encuentra el astronauta de la NASA de origen salvadoreño Frank Rubio, […]
Posted March 14, 2024
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