March 2024

NASA is awarding approximately $3.7 million to 17 museums, science centers, and other informal education institutions as part of an initiative to ignite STEM excitement. The money will go toward projects that inspire students and their learning support systems to take an active role in the wonder of science, technology, engineering, and math.

Posted March 28, 2024

NASA Selects Construction Management Services Acquisition Contractor

NASA has selected small business Firelake-Arrowhead NASA Services Joint Venture of Lawrence, Kansas, to acquire construction management, inspection, surveying, and testing services at NASA centers across the country.

Posted March 28, 2024

Wallops Flight Facility

Goddard Space Flight Center

Partner with NASA STEM

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA, Salisbury U. Enact Agreement for Workforce Development

NASA and Salisbury University (SU) in Maryland signed a collaborative Space Act Agreement Thursday, March 28, 2024, opening new opportunities at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Posted March 28, 2024

Stennis Space Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

MEDIA ADVISORY: NASA Invites Media to Milestone RS-25 Engine Certification Test

NASA will host media to view a milestone RS-25 engine test at NASA’s Stennis Space Center on Wednesday, April 3, to certify full production of new engines to help power the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. As NASA explores the universe for the benefit of all, NASA […]

Posted March 28, 2024

Mariner 7

Mariner 7 Goes to Mars

55 years ago, on March 27, 1969, an Atlas-Centaur rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending Mariner 7 on its way to study Mars. Mariner 7 was the second Mars probe; Mariner 6 launched Feb. 24, 1969, to investigate Mars’ equator. Mariner 7 made a close flyby of Mars just five days […]

Posted March 28, 2024

General

CubeSat Launch Initiative

For Colleges & Universities

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

Learning Resources

NASA, Partners Select Universities for CubeSat Summer Program

Eight university teams have been selected to work with NASA and the U.S. military to improve their small satellite proposals, ultimately increasing the possibility of flying their technology in space, and potentially launching their own careers in the space industry. NASA’s CSLI (CubeSat Launch Initiative) is partnering with the U.S.

Posted March 28, 2024

2024 Solar Eclipse

Citizen Science

Eclipses

Skywatching

Solar Eclipses

Don’t Make Me Wait for April 8!

Can’t wait to see the Moon block the Sun on April 8? Neither can we. But we have good news – if you want to see an incredible cosmic alignment, you can catch one right now! Exoplanets, asteroids, and other objects regularly pass in front of stars and block their light. Observing these events is […]

Posted March 28, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Stars

The Universe

Three-Year Study of Young Stars with NASA’s Hubble Enters New Chapter

In the largest and one of the most ambitious Hubble Space Telescope programs ever executed, a team of scientists and engineers collected information on almost 500 stars over a three-year period.

Posted March 28, 2024

ISS Research

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Expedition 70 Science Highlights

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara is returning home after six months aboard the International Space Station. During her time on the orbiting laboratory, O’Hara contributed to dozens of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to prepare for future space exploration missions and generate innovations and benefits for humanity on Earth.

Posted March 28, 2024

Uncategorized

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The ULLYSES program studied two types of young stars: super-hot, massive, blue stars and cooler, redder, less massive stars than our Sun. The top panel is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a star-forming region containing massive, young, blue stars in 30 Doradus, the Tarantula Nebula. Located within the Large Magellanic Cloud, this is one […]

Posted March 28, 2024