May 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Opportunities to Contribute to NASA Missions & Get Involved
Science for Everyone
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday named David Salvagnini as the agency’s new chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer, effective immediately. The role is an expansion of Salvagnini’s current role as chief data officer.
Posted May 13, 2024
Johnson Space Center
General
People of Johnson
Hemanth Koralla was working as a software developer for General Motors when he received a LinkedIn message inviting him to apply for a NASA contract position with Jacobs Technology. While unexpected, Koralla seized the opportunity. “You can’t say no to NASA!” Koralla has spent the last two years helping to develop the Vehicle System Manager […]
Posted May 13, 2024
NASA History
STS-125
 “Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a lake.” James B. Odom, Hubble Program Manager 1983-1990. The fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, placed in orbit in 1990, took place during the STS-125 mission in May 2009. During the 13-day flight, […]
Posted May 13, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA will host four astronauts at 10 a.m. CDT Tuesday, May 14, for a media opportunity at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Posted May 10, 2024
Blogs
We planned quite a drive on Wednesday, with lots of twists and turns over very bumpy terrain, so the team was delighted to learn everything completed as planned when we received our downlink at ~4 am Pacific Time this morning!
Posted May 10, 2024
STEM Engagement at NASA
EPSCoR
Get Involved
Grants & Opportunities
ISS Research
Learning Resources
MUREP
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
NASA is awarding approximately $45 million to 21 higher-education institutions to help build capacity for research.
Posted May 10, 2024
Kennedy Space Center
An American flamingo takes a moment to drink water in the Indian River at Haulover Canal on Merritt Island on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. American Flamingos are more common in Mexico and Cuba but the winds from Hurricane Idalia relocated them to Florida in September 2023. The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is northwest of […]
Posted May 10, 2024
STEM Engagement at NASA
Artemis
For Colleges & Universities
Kennedy Space Center
NASA’s 2024 Lunabotics Challenge offers more than 40 college teams from across the country the chance to design, build, and operate their own lunar robots, with the top 10 teams advancing to the final demonstrations phase. Media are invited to attend the finals on May 16-17 hosted at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space […]
Posted May 10, 2024
NASA Centers & Facilities
Artemis 4
Earth's Moon
Exploration Ground Systems
Kennedy Space Center
Missions
The foundation is set at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launching crewed missions aboard the agency’s larger and more powerful SLS (Space Launch System) Block 1B rocket in support of Artemis IV and future missions. On May 9, 2024, teams with NASA’s EGS (Exploration Ground Systems) Program and contractor Bechtel National Inc.
Posted May 10, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
Fifteen years ago, human hands touched NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope for the last time. As astronauts performed finishing tasks on the telescope during its final servicing mission in May 2009, they knew they had successfully concluded one of the most challenging and ambitious series of spacewalks ever conducted.
Posted May 10, 2024
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