March 2024

65 Years Ago: Pioneer 4 Reaches for the Moon

On March 3, 1959, the United States launched Pioneer 4 with the goal of photographing the Moon during a close flyby. As part of the International Geophysical Year that ran from July 1, 1957, to Dec. 31, 1958, the United States planned to send five probes to study the Moon. The first three planned to […]

Posted March 4, 2024

Stennis Space Center

Lagniappe for March 2024

Explore the March 2024 edition featuring: Gator Speaks Closing out February and coming into March has Gator fired up, and rightfully so! Recent weeks and upcoming events remind us all how we are in a golden era of space exploration as NASA inspires the world through discovery. For the first time in more than half […]

Posted March 4, 2024

Stennis Space Center

NASA Leaders Participate in Annual Stennis Day at the Capitol

Leaders from NASA’s Stennis Space Center and NASA Shared Services Center visit Jackson, Mississippi, in late February to share site updates with state leaders during the annual Stennis Day at the Capitol. NASA Stennis is on the front line of the next great era of human space exploration as NASA explores the secrets of the […]

Posted March 4, 2024

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

Ames Research Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA to Demonstrate Miniature CubeSat Swarm Technology

Preparations are underway for a new, small spacecraft technology demonstration that will test cost-efficient swarm capabilities – the ability for multiple spacecraft to communicate and perform coordinated actions. The PY4 mission’s four CubeSats are slated to launch Monday March 4, 2:05 p.m.

Posted March 4, 2024

Johnson Space Center

NASA Johnson Director to Discuss Exploration Park Facility

March 4, 2024 MEDIA ADVISORY: J24-005 The director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center will discuss the objectives behind the center’s new Exploration Park initiative at the next meeting of the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership’s (BAHEP) aerospace advisory committee at 12 p.m. CST Wednesday, March 6, at 1150 Gemini in Houston.

Posted March 4, 2024

Langley Research Center

Women at NASA

Women's History Month

Women of NASA Langley Research Center

In honor of Women’s History Month and those who paved the way for them, hundreds of female staff – from artists to administrative support, educators to engineers, and scientists to safety officers – gathered in front of the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Feb. 6, […]

Posted March 4, 2024

BepiColombo

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Mars Express

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)

Parker Solar Probe (PSP)

SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)

Solar Orbiter

Space Weather

STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory)

Multiple Spacecraft Tell the Story of One Giant Solar Storm

April 17, 2021, was a day like any other day on the Sun, until a brilliant flash erupted and an enormous cloud of solar material billowed away from our star. Such outbursts from the Sun are not unusual, but this one was unusually widespread, hurling high-speed protons and electrons at velocities nearing the speed of […]

Posted March 4, 2024

Juno

Europa

Jupiter

Jupiter Moons

NASA’s Juno Mission Measures Oxygen Production at Europa

The ice-covered Jovian moon generates 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours – enough to keep a million humans breathing for a day. Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at the Jovian moon Europa to be substantially less than most previous studies. Published on March 4 […]

Posted March 4, 2024

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

The Universe

Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen

Looking deeply into space and time, two teams using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old.

Posted March 4, 2024

Glenn History

Events

Glenn Research Center

People of NASA

Class of 2021

NASA Glenn Research Center Hall of Fame 2021 Induction Class A third class of the NASA Glenn Hall of Fame was selected as part of the observance of the center’s 80th Anniversary. The 10 inductees represent Glenn’s broad competencies and mission support functions. This class is the first to emerge from Glenn’s recent history, and […]

Posted March 4, 2024