April 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center
Earth
Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, received the Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Prize on April 8 in London.
Posted April 9, 2024
Low Earth Orbit Economy
Commercial Space
General
NASA is opening access to space for more people by working with private industry on the development of new commercial space stations for low Earth orbit where the agency’s astronauts could fly in the future.
Posted April 9, 2024
NASA History
On April 8, 1964, Gemini 1 successfully completed the first uncrewed test flight of the Gemini spacecraft and its Titan II booster. The three-orbit mission proved the structural integrity of the spacecraft and the launch vehicle, paving the way for a second uncrewed test flight and ultimately missions with astronauts.
Posted April 9, 2024
NASA History
Artemis 2
Astronauts
Becoming an Astronaut
Project Mercury
The Mercury 7 On April 9, 1959, reporters and news media crammed into the ballroom of the Dolley Madison House in Washington—the location of NASA Headquarters at that time—to learn the names of the first American astronauts who came to be known as the Mercury 7. Public Information Director Walter Bonney kicked off the announcement […]
Posted April 9, 2024
Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS)
Glenn Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA STEM Projects
STEM Engagement at NASA
Technology
The Solar System
The Universe
NASA has selected the nine finalists of the Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes.
Posted April 8, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Dark Matter
Dark Matter & Dark Energy
E-Books
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
The Universe
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team has released a new downloadable e-book in the Hubble Focus series, called “Hubble Focus: The Dark Universe.” This e-book highlights the mission’s recent discoveries about two mysterious components of our universe, known as dark energy — an unexplained cosmic pressure that’s speeding up the universe’s expansion — a
Posted April 6, 2024
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Missions
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara returned to Earth after a six-month research mission aboard the International Space Station on Saturday, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya. The trio departed the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at 11:54 p.m.
Posted April 6, 2024
Humans in Space
Jessica Watkins
Pamela A. Melroy
Raja Chari
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Associate Administrator Jim Free are scheduled to speak at the Space Foundation’s 39th Space Symposium from Tuesday, April 9 through Thursday, April 11 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Posted April 5, 2024
Langley Research Center
Aeronautics
Drones & You
A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to study changes in the Sun’s radiation as it reaches Earth before, during, and after the total solar eclipse April 8. Weather sensors similar to what is used on daily weather balloons by the National Weather […]
Posted April 5, 2024
Langley Research Center
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Fourteen undergraduate and graduate teams from across the country were selected as finalists to compete in one of NASA’s longest running student challenges — the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition.
Posted April 5, 2024
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