March 2025

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Views Blue Ghost on Moon’s Surface

NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander on the Moon’s surface the afternoon of March 2, not quite 10 hours after the spacecraft landed. The delivery is part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign.

Posted March 25, 2025

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Views IM-2 on Moon’s Surface

NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 on the Moon’s surface on March 7, just under 24 hours after the spacecraft landed.

Posted March 25, 2025

Johnson Space Center

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Engineering Reality: Lee Bingham Leads Lunar Surface Simulation Support for Artemis Campaign

If you design a new tool for use on Earth, it is easy to test and practice using that tool in its intended environment. But what if that tool is destined for lunar orbit or will be used by astronauts on the surface of the Moon? NASA’s Simulation and Graphics Branch can help with that. […]

Posted March 24, 2025

Astrobiology

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Mars

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Found on Mars

Researchers analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the Red Planet to date. The finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests prebiotic chemistry may have advanced further on Mars than previously observed.

Posted March 24, 2025

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Protostars

Stars

Like Sands Through the Hourglass…

Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering hourglass-shaped ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. This star system, called Lynds 483, is named for American astronomer Beverly T.

Posted March 24, 2025

General

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) Services

Overview Welcome to the Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) services page. Provided here are different resources to support informed steps toward a new career opportunity in the public or private sector.

Posted March 24, 2025

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NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 32nd Resupply Launch to Space Station

Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.

Posted March 24, 2025

Earth

Earth Science

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA Takes to the Air to Study Wildflowers

For many plant species, flowering is biologically synced with the seasons. Scientists are clocking blooms to understand our ever-changing planet. NASA research is revealing there’s more to flowers than meets the human eye.

Posted March 24, 2025

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Astronauts to Discuss Science Mission

After completing a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts will discuss their science mission during a postflight news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, March 31, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Posted March 24, 2025

NASA History

Johnson Space Center

50 Years Ago: Final Saturn Rocket Rolls Out to Launch Pad 39

On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Saturn IB rocket for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the 19th in the Saturn class stacked in the assembly building, beginning […]

Posted March 24, 2025