March 2025

Euclid
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Stars
With contributions from NASA, the mission is looking back into the universe’s history to understand how the universe’s expansion has changed.  The Euclid mission — led by ESA (European Space Agency) with contributions from NASA — aims to find out why our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Astronomers use the term “dark energy” […]
Posted March 19, 2025
Game Changing Development Program
Langley Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
This compressed, resolution-limited gif shows the view of lunar sunset from one of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 cameras on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander, which operated on the Moon’s surface for a little more than 14 days and stopped, as anticipated, a few hours into lunar night. SCALPSS was taking […]
Posted March 19, 2025
Blogs
Written by Michelle Minitti, Planetary Geologist at Framework Earth planning date: Friday, March 14, 2025 The rover successfully arrived at the “Humber Park” outcrop which, on this fine “Pi Day” on Earth, we could convince ourselves looked like a pie with a sandy interior and a rough and rocky crust. We can only hope our […]
Posted March 19, 2025
Humans in Space
Commercial Crew
Expedition 72
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 completed the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday, splashing down safely in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, in the Gulf of America.
Posted March 19, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Blue Ghost (lander)
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Headquarters
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
After landing on the Moon with NASA science and technology demonstrations March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 concluded its mission March 16. Analysis of data returned to Earth from the NASA instruments continues, benefitting future lunar missions.
Posted March 18, 2025
Commercial Crew
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov – the members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission – smile at the camera in this Feb. 19, 2025, photo.
Posted March 18, 2025
Ames Research Center
Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Flight Innovation
NASA will conduct a live flight test of aircraft performing simulated wildland fire response operations using a newly developed airspace management system at 9 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, March 25, in Salinas, California.
Posted March 18, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Media are invited to meet leaders in the space community during the 62nd annual Goddard Space Science Symposium, taking place from Wednesday, March 19, to Friday, March 21, at Martin’s Crosswinds in Greenbelt, Maryland. The symposium will also be streamed online.
Posted March 18, 2025
NASA History
Skylab
Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics
Skylab 3 astronauts witnessed many spectacular sights during their 858 orbital trips around the Earth in the summer of 1973. One involved watching powerful Hurricane Ellen take shape off the West African coast. “There’s a nice storm down there. She looks pretty big. She’s got a lot of clouds,” said astronaut Alan L. Bean upon […]
Posted March 18, 2025
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