March 2024

NASA History
On March 8, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the first image of Earth from the surface of another planet. The Earth appearing as nothing more than a bright star provided a new perspective on our home planet, a perspective reshaped over the past eight decades as cameras aboard rockets and spacecraft traveled farther […]
Posted March 7, 2024
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
Two recently discovered exoplanets, gas giants possibly similar to Saturn, could be candidates for further atmospheric investigation.
Posted March 7, 2024
STEM Engagement at NASA
For Kids and Students
Celebrate one of the world’s most famous numbers with a set of math problems involving real space missions, courtesy of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. March 14 marks the annual celebration of the mathematical constant pi, aka the Greek letter π. Its infinite number of digits is usually rounded to 3.14, hence the date of […]
Posted March 7, 2024
General
Ames Research Center
Commercial Space
Commercial Space Programs
Flight Opportunities Program
Langley Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Space Technology Mission Directorate
The Future of Commercial Space
Things are heating up in the atmosphere, and NASA is helping space start-ups stay cool.   NASA has decades of expertise in creating technology that protects spacecraft from the intense heat generated when entering an atmosphere. As emerging companies develop innovative ways to do business in space, they know where to turn – and the […]
Posted March 7, 2024
Apollo 9
David R. Scott
Former Astronauts
Russell L. Schweickart
Astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot for the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission, stands in the command module’s open hatch during his stand-up spacewalk on March 6, 1969. Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, took this photograph of Scott while also performing a spacewalk. He was positioned on the porch of the lunar module […]
Posted March 7, 2024
Technology
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Robotics
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lunar surface together as a tech demo to show the promise of multirobot missions. A trio of small rovers that will explore the Moon in sync with one another are rolling toward launch. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California […]
Posted March 7, 2024
Citizen Science
Earth Science
Texas A&M sent 31 students to the Antarctic this year—and they did some vital NASA science while they were there. Meteorology students, oceanography students and education psychology students worked with Dr.
Posted March 7, 2024
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Green Aviation Tech
Integrated Aviation Systems Program
Sustainable Flight Demonstrator
As NASA and Boeing enter the early stages of producing the X-66, the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050, the team is already picturing what the aircraft will look like soaring above the clouds.  A new rendering of the X-66 from Boeing demonstrates the aircraft’s signature […]
Posted March 7, 2024
Glenn Research Center
General
    NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is encouraging the public to prepare to safely view the upcoming total solar eclipse. YOU can help us build excitement and raise awareness about eclipse safety by taking photos of people – including yourself! – wearing eclipse glasses. The goal is to show how you will be protecting […]
Posted March 7, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
Stennis Space Center
NASA conducted a full-duration RS-25 engine hot fire March 6, continuing a final round of certification testing for production of new engines to help power the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. The full-duration test on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near […]
Posted March 6, 2024
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