September 2024

Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
Marshall Space Flight Center
Spinoffs
Technology Transfer
Efforts to 3D print engines produce significant savings in rocketry and beyond
Posted September 12, 2024
Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
For Colleges & Universities
Get Involved
Learning Resources
Opportunities to Contribute to NASA Missions & Get Involved
NASA wants you to visualize the future of space exploration! This art challenge is looking for creative, artistic images to represent NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture, the agency’s roadmap for crewed exploration of deep space.
Posted September 12, 2024
Earth's Moon
General
NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) following a policy directive from the White House in April.
Posted September 12, 2024
Astrophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Protostars
Science & Research
Star Clusters
Star-forming Nebulae
Stars
The Milky Way
The Universe
Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center.
Posted September 12, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Starship Super Heavy Breezes Through Wind Tunnel Testing NASA and its industry partners continue to make progress toward Artemis III and beyond, the first crewed lunar landing missions under the agency’s Artemis campaign.
Posted September 11, 2024
Humans in Space
Astronauts
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Missions
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its number of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover period.
Posted September 11, 2024
NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to discuss the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The briefing will be open to media and will air live on NASA+ and the agency’s website, plus Facebook, X, and […]
Posted September 11, 2024
Earth
Climate Change
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Goddard Space Flight Center
The agency also shared new state-of-the-art datasets that allow scientists to track Earth’s temperature for any month and region going back to 1880 with greater certainty.
Posted September 11, 2024
Advanced Plant Habitat (APH)
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
In July 2021, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station started growing chile peppers in the Advanced Plant Habitat, as part of the Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04) experiment. The astronauts and a team of researchers at Kennedy worked together to monitor the peppers’ growth before harvesting them. In this image from Sept.
Posted September 11, 2024
Skywatching
Skywatching Tips
The next full Moon will be Tuesday, September 17, 2024, at 10:35 PM EDT. The Moon will appear full from Monday evening through Thursday morning.
Posted September 11, 2024
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