August 2024

For the first time, a NASA-funded researcher will fly with their experiment on a commercial suborbital rocket.

Posted August 28, 2024

NASA Assigns Astronaut Jonny Kim to First Space Station Mission

During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft in March 2025, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky.

Posted August 28, 2024

General

Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Climate Change

Earth

Earth Science Division

Opportunities For Students to Get Involved

Science Activation

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Project in Puerto Rico Trains Students in Marine Biology

Tainaliz Marie Rodríguez Lugo took a deep breath, adjusted her snorkel mask, and plunged into the ocean, fins first. Three weeks earlier, Rodríguez Lugo couldn’t swim. Now the college student was gathering data on water quality and coral reefs for a NASA-led marine biology project in Puerto Rico, where she lives. “There is so much […]

Posted August 28, 2024

General

SBIR STTR

Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business

NASA Pilot Program Continues to Award Small Business Innovators

Earlier this month, nine small businesses received 2023 NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Ignite Phase II awards to further develop technologies that may be used in the agency’s missions and in the commercial space industry. The SBIR Ignite Phase II awardees, who will receive up to $850,000 to fund their projects, are developing techn

Posted August 28, 2024

Missions

Commercial Crew

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

Kennedy Space Center

NASA, SpaceX Extend US Media Deadline for Crew-9 Launch to Station

NASA is extending U.S. media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ninth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The application period for U.S. media and U.S.

Posted August 28, 2024

NASA History

STS-128

15 Years Ago: STS-128 Delivers Cargo to Enable Six-Person Space Station Crew

On Aug. 28, 2009, space shuttle Discovery began its 37th trip into space. The 17A mission to the International Space Station was the 30th shuttle flight to the orbiting lab. During the 14-day mission, the seven-member STS-128 crew worked with Expedition 20, the first six-person crew aboard the station, during nine days of docked operations. […]

Posted August 28, 2024

NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope)

Comets

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)

Planetary Defense

Planetary Defense Coordination Office

Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter

The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA’s new asteroid-hunting spacecraft is taking shape at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

Posted August 28, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Ionosphere

Science & Research

Sounding Rockets

Sounding Rockets Program

NASA Discovers a Long-Sought Global Electric Field on Earth

An international team of scientists has successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields. Known as the ambipolar electric field, scientists first hypothesized over 60 years ago that it drove atmospheric escape above Earth’s North and South Poles.

Posted August 28, 2024

Earth

Climate Change

Earth Science

Water on Earth

New NASA Study Tallies Carbon Emissions From Massive Canadian Fires

Extreme wildfires like these will continue to have a large impact on global climate. Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, NASA scientists have found.

Posted August 28, 2024

2024 Solar Eclipse

Astrophysics

Audio

Citizen Science

Earth Science

Heliophysics

Planetary Science

Science Activation

Eclipse Soundscapes AudioMoth Donations Will Study Nature at Night

During the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, approximately 770 AudioMoth recording devices were used to capture sound data as part of the Eclipse Soundscapes Project — a multisensory participatory science (also known as “citizen science”) project that is studying how eclipses impact life on Earth.

Posted August 28, 2024