May 2024

Hubble Celebrates the 15th Anniversary of Servicing Mission 4

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

General

NASA Glenn Looking to Lease Facilities

As NASA advances its aviation and spaceflight missions, its facilities and infrastructure need to evolve along with them. NASA centers, including Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, must find ways to reduce the cost of maintaining assets they aren’t currently using.

Posted May 10, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

The Universe

Hubble Glimpses a Star-Forming Factory

The celestial object showcased in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the spiral galaxy UGC 9684, which lies around 240 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Boötes.

Posted May 10, 2024

GOES-U

General

GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

NASA Socials Program

NASA Invites Social Creators for Launch of NOAA Weather Satellite

Registration is open for digital content creators to attend the launch of NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) satellite, a mission to help improve weather observing and environmental monitoring capabilities on Earth, as well as improve space weather observations.

Posted May 9, 2024

GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

GOES-U

Missions

NASA Invites Media to NOAA’s Advanced Weather Satellite Launch

NASA is preparing to launch NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U), a mission to help improve weather observing and environmental monitoring capabilities on Earth, as well as advance space weather observations.

Posted May 9, 2024

Artemis

NASA Field Geology Training Prepares Artemis Mission Support Teams

NASA engineers, managers, and flight directors recently traded their cubicles and conference rooms for an ancient volcanic field in the northern Arizona desert to participate in a field geology course aimed at arming them with first-hand experience in what Artemis astronauts will do when they explore the Moon. The two-and-a-half-day exercise for A

Posted May 9, 2024

Artemis

Artemis 2

Artemis 3

Humans in Space

I Am Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

I Am Artemis: Lauren Fisher

NASA’s Lauren Fisher, lead engineer for the thermal protection systems on Artemis III’s LVSA, discusses how her unusual background in music performance and education makes her a stronger engineer.

Posted May 9, 2024

Andromeda Galaxy

Black Holes

Spitzer Space Telescope

Supermassive Black Holes

Spitzer Space Telescope Captures Galactic Snack

This image, released on May 9, 2024, from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope shows streams of dust flowing toward the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy. These dust streams can help explain how black holes billions of times the mass of our Sun can satiate their big appetites but remain “quiet” […]

Posted May 9, 2024

ISS Research

Astronauts

Humans in Space

In-flight Education Downlinks

International Space Station (ISS)

Learning Resources

Arizona, New York Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Station

Students from Arizona and New York will have separate opportunities next week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station. At 12:10 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 14, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps and Tracy C.

Posted May 9, 2024

Missions

Artemis

NASA Invites Media to Arizona Simulated Artemis Moonwalking Site

Media are invited to interact with the NASA team members practicing Artemis moonwalking operations Saturday, May 18, in the San Francisco Volcanic Fields near Flagstaff, Arizona. NASA’s in-person only event includes an opportunity to speak with subject matter experts and view various hardware stations.

Posted May 9, 2024