April 2024

In its pursuit to develop groundbreaking technologies to explore space and benefit life on Earth, NASA invites the public to contribute ideas to the agency through participatory opportunities, including challenges. The Cube Quest competition – NASA’s first in-space challenge – kicked off in 2015, offering a total prize purse of $5 million.

Posted April 30, 2024

Artemis

Artemis 4

Gateway Program

Gateway Space Station

Gateway: Forward Progress on Artemis IV

The modules for NASA's Gateway space station are taking shape on the ground, with hardware fabrication of HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) and Lunar I-Hab (Lunar International Habitation module) actively underway at a Thales Alenia Space industrial plant in Turin, Italy.

Posted April 30, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Marshall Prepares for Strategic Facilities Updates

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is getting ready for the next big step in the evolution of its main campus in Huntsville, Alabama. Through a series of multi-year infrastructure projects, Marshall is optimizing its footprint to assure its place as a vibrant and vital hub for the aerospace community in the next era. Near-term plans […]

Posted April 30, 2024

Commercial Space

Commercial Crew

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

Space Operations Mission Directorate

NASA Sets Coverage for Boeing Starliner’s First Crewed Launch, Docking

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, which will carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from the International Space Station. Launch of the ULA (United Launch Alliance) Atlas V rocket and Boeing Starliner spacecraft is targeted for 10:34 p.m.

Posted April 29, 2024

Horsehead Nebula

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Nebulae

The Horse’s Mane

This image of part of the Horsehead Nebula, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and released on April 29, 2024, shows the nebula in a whole new light, capturing the region’s complexity with unprecedented spatial resolution.

Posted April 29, 2024

Humans in Space

Astronauts

Commercial Crew

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

NASA Sets Coverage for Dragon Spacecraft Relocation on Space Station

In preparation for the arrival of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, four crew members aboard the International Space Station will relocate the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to a different docking port Thursday, May 2, to make way for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. NASA will provide live coverage of the move beginning at 7:30 a.m. EDT on […]

Posted April 29, 2024

Mars

Curiosity (Rover)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)

The Solar System

The Sun

NASA Scientists Gear Up for Solar Storms at Mars

The Sun will be at peak activity this year, providing a rare opportunity to study how solar storms and radiation could affect future astronauts on the Red Planet. In the months ahead, two of NASA’s Mars spacecraft will have an unprecedented opportunity to study how solar flares — giant explosions on the Sun’s surface — […]

Posted April 29, 2024

Stennis Space Center

NASA Administrator Names New Stennis Space Center Director

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday named John Bailey as director of the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, effective immediately. Bailey had been serving as acting director since January. “John will build on his nearly 35 years of federal service to lead our talented workforce at Stennis,” said Nelson.

Posted April 29, 2024

Citizen Science

Mars

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)

Planetary Science

The Solar System

Major Martian Milestones

There’s good news from NASA’s Cloudspotting on Mars project! That’s the project that invites you to help identify exotic clouds high in the Martian atmosphere. Congratulations to the Cloudspotting on Mars team and all the volunteers who have helped spot Martian clouds!

Posted April 29, 2024

General

NASA Engineering and Safety Center

Innovation that Impacts All NASA Missions: Improving How We Engineer Our Systems

Download PDF: Innovation that Impacts All NASA Missions: Improving How We Engineer Our Systems John F. Kennedy set the tone for NASA’s culture in 1961 during his famous speech on going to the Moon, “We choose to go to the Moon not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard; because that goal will serve to […]

Posted April 29, 2024