July 2024

45 Years Ago: Skylab Reenters Earth’s Atmosphere

A few days before they left Skylab on Feb. 8, 1974, the final crew to occupy the station raised its altitude, hoping to keep it in orbit until a future space shuttle could revisit it. But higher than predicted solar activity caused the Earth’s atmosphere to expand, increasing drag on the large vehicle, causing its […]

Posted July 11, 2024

Electrical and Mechanical Technician Clifton Brown

“We have a group photo of my first project here, ASTRO-H, and that one means a lot to me because I came [to that NASA project] fresh off the street. I was super scared and intimidated. It was me and three other [technicians], who were also all new, and a handful of very seasoned scientists […]

Posted July 11, 2024

Artemis

Artemis 2

Humans in Space

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Michoud Assembly Facility

NASA Centers & Facilities

Space Launch System (SLS)

NASA Barge Preparations Underway for Artemis II Rocket Stage Delivery

Team members are installing pedestals aboard NASA’s Pegasus barge to hold and secure the massive core stage of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, indicating NASA barge crews are nearly ready for its first delivery to support the Artemis II test flight around the Moon. The barge will ferry the core stage on a 900-mile […]

Posted July 11, 2024

Astrophysics

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Galaxies

Galaxy clusters

Marshall Space Flight Center

Nebulae

The Universe

Take a Summer Cosmic Road Trip With NASA’s Chandra and Webb

It’s time to take a cosmic road trip using light as the highway and visit four stunning destinations across space. The vehicles for this space get-away are NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope. The first stop on this tour is the closest, Rho Ophiuchi, at a distance of about 390 light-years from […]

Posted July 11, 2024

Acting Center Chief Technologist Dr. Phillip Williams

“I did not know that NASA Langley was right here in my own backyard. I was born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, and NASA Langley is in Hampton, about 45 minutes away. All throughout elementary school, I didn’t know that NASA was here. I always thought NASA was in Florida or Texas or somewhere. “I […]

Posted July 11, 2024

Missions

Analog Field Testing

Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA)

Johnson Space Center

Kjell N. Lindgren

NASA Centers & Facilities

Voyagers of Mars: The First CHAPEA Crew’s Yearlong Journey

When the first humans travel to the Red Planet, they will need to know how to repair and maintain equipment, grow their own food, and stay healthy, all while contending with Earth-to-Mars communication delays.

Posted July 11, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Dark Matter

Dark Matter & Dark Energy

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

The Universe

NASA’s Hubble Traces Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxy Using Stellar Motions

The qualities and behavior of dark matter, the invisible “glue” of the universe, continue to be shrouded in mystery. Though galaxies are mostly made of dark matter, understanding how it is distributed within a galaxy offers clues to what this substance is, and how it’s relevant to a galaxy’s evolution. While computer simulations suggest dark […]

Posted July 11, 2024

Glenn Research Center

General

Attention Civil Servant Retirees

NASA’s Glenn Research Center civil servant retirees are invited to attend the 2024 Summerfest! Wednesday, Aug. 7, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Along Taylor Road at Lewis Field For more information or to RSVP, contact Kathy Clark at 216–433–8354 or kathy.m.clark@nasa.gov Registration closes: July 26

Posted July 11, 2024

Organizations

Office of the General Counsel (OGC)

About the Office of the General Counsel

The Office of the General Counsel provides functional leadership regarding legal services and issues related to all aspects of NASA activities for Center Chief and Patent Counsel and, for Agency-wide issues, the Administrator. These services and issues include establishing and disseminating legal policy and interpreting new statutes and cases.

Posted July 11, 2024

CubeSat Launch Initiative

CubeSats

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

Small Satellite Missions

NASA CubeSat Launches as Rideshare on ESA’s First Ariane 6 Rocket

NASA launched CURIE (CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment) as a rideshare payload on the inaugural flight of ESA’s (European Space Agency) Ariane 6 rocket, which launched at 4 p.m. GFT on July 9 from Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, in French Guiana. Designed by a team from the University of California, Berkeley, CURIE […]

Posted July 11, 2024