August 2024

Blogs
Earth planning date: Monday, Aug. 19, 2024 Curiosity successfully completed the drill sequence at the Kings Canyon site within the Gediz Vallis channel. Today was a smooth planning day as we decided to stay put for sols 4280 and 4281 to obtain APXS data of the drill tailings (the crushed rock removed from the drill hole) before […]
Posted August 20, 2024
Earth Science
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
Uncategorized
The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) instituted the Entrepreneurs Challenge to identify innovative ideas and technologies from small business start-ups with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals.
Posted August 20, 2024
Astrophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Stars
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 4879 or VV124. As this image illustrates, Hubble’s high resolution can detect individual stars, even in the densest parts of the galaxy. This allows astronomers to better determine the galaxy’s distance, and the composition and age of its stars. UGC 4879 is an […]
Posted August 20, 2024
Earth's Moon
Skywatching
The Moon of August 30-31, 2023, is a full moon, a supermoon, and a blue moon. Here’s what it all means.
Posted August 19, 2024
General
Humans in Space
Solicitation Number: NNH16ZCQ001K-Appendix-R August 16, 2024 – Draft Solicitation Released Solicitation Overview The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to release a solicitation under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (Next STEP-2) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to seek industry-led concept defini
Posted August 19, 2024
Ames Research Center
CubeSats
Launch Services Program
Marshall Space Flight Center
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Small Satellite Missions
A pair of CubeSats from NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator, or PTD, series lifted off on SpaceX’s Transporter-11 rideshare mission at 11:56 a.m. PDT Friday, August 16, from Vandenburg Space Force Base in California.
Posted August 19, 2024
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Centennial Challenges
For Colleges & Universities
Learning Resources
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duration human space exploration missions with safe, nutritious, and tasty food.
Posted August 19, 2024
Ames Research Center
Aeronautics
NASA works every day to improve air travel – and has been doing so since its creation decades ago. On National Aviation Day, NASA and all fans of aviation get the chance to celebrate the innovative research and development the agency has produced to improve capability and safety in flight. NASA’s Ames Research Center in […]
Posted August 19, 2024
OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)
An OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule training model parachutes down in this image from Aug. 30, 2023. This drop test was part of NASA’s preparations for the return of samples from the asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24, 2023. OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. This photo was chosen by […]
Posted August 19, 2024
Johnson Space Center
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
International Space Station Division
Missions
Science & Research
Technology for Living in Space
Technology for Space Travel
Technology Research
Locations designed as a maintenance work area and an exercise area on the International Space Station are commonly used by crew members for stowage and body maintenance activities, respectively.
Posted August 19, 2024
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