July 2024

Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
The NASA Breath Diagnostics challenge tasks solvers to leverage their expertise to develop a classification model that can accurately discriminate between the breath of COVID-positive and COVID-negative individuals, using existing data.
Posted July 5, 2024
Astrophysics
Biological & Physical Sciences
Earth Science
Heliophysics
Planetary Science
Science Activation
Science-enabling Technology
NASA Science Activation (SciAct) teams participated in the National Rural STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) Summit held June 4-7, 2024 in Tucson, Arizona.
Posted July 5, 2024
Ames Research Center
CubeSat Launch Initiative
CubeSats
Johnson Space Center
Launch Services Program
As part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, Firefly Aerospace launched eight small satellites on July 3 aboard the company’s Alpha rocket. Named “Noise of Summer,” the rocket successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 9:04 p.m. PDT.
Posted July 4, 2024
Blogs
Earth Planning Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 We received the data from our SAM analysis of the Mammoth Lakes sample late Monday afternoon. After chewing over the results, the team declared we are very happy with all of the analyses we’ve done with this sample, and we are ready to move on to greener pastures… […]
Posted July 4, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
11 Marshall Team Members, 5 Teams Awarded in Space Flight Awareness Ceremony By Jessica Barnett Sixteen individuals and groups from across NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center were recognized June 27 for going above and beyond in their support of the human space program.
Posted July 3, 2024
July 3, 2024 RELEASE: J24-011 NASA astronaut Patrick G. Forrester retired June 29, after a career spanning 31 years of service and three spaceflights. He went on to become chief of NASA’s Astronaut Office, and most recently served as an advisor to the associate administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in […]
Posted July 3, 2024
Artemis
Kennedy Space Center
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Technicians lift NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell on June 28, 2024.
Posted July 3, 2024
Artemis 2
Andre Douglas
Artemis
Astronauts
Humans in Space
NASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as its backup crew member for the agency’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign. Douglas will train alongside NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
Posted July 3, 2024
Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)
Asteroids
Deep Space Network
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA)
Space Communications & Navigation Program
The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 as they safely passed Earth. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California recently tracked two asteroids as they flew by our planet. One turned out to have a little moon orbiting it, while the […]
Posted July 3, 2024
NASA History
It may seem remarkable that no American spent the Fourth of July holiday in space for the first 21 years of human spaceflight. Not until 1982 and the 35th U.S. human spaceflight did Americans awaken in space on Independence Day, and then bring their spacecraft back to Earth later in the day to a rousing […]
Posted July 3, 2024
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