December 2025

Artemis
Artemis 2
Christina H. Koch
Exploration Ground Systems
G. Reid Wiseman
Kennedy Space Center
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Space Launch System (SLS)
Victor J. Glover
The four astronauts set to fly around the Moon during NASA’s Artemis II test flight depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, during a dress rehearsal for launch day on Dec. 20, 2025.
Posted December 20, 2025
Blogs
Written by Noah Martin, Ph.D. student and Candice Bedford, Research Scientist at Purdue University While much of Perseverance’s work focuses on ancient rocks that record Mars’ long-lost rivers and lakes, megaripples offer a rare opportunity to examine processes that are still shaping the surface today.
Posted December 20, 2025
Commercial Crew
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition.
Posted December 19, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Artemis
Artemis 2
Gateway Program
Gateway Space Station
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston closed 2025 with major progress across human spaceflight, research, and exploration. From Artemis II mission preparations to science aboard the International Space Station, teams at Johnson helped prepare for future missions to the Moon and, ultimately, Mars.
Posted December 19, 2025
Commercial Space
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Space Communications Technology
Technology Demonstration
Just like your cellphone stays connected by roaming between networks, NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal, or PExT, technology demonstration is proving space missions can do the same by switching seamlessly between government and commercial communications networks.
Posted December 19, 2025
NASA astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates electrostatic forces using charged water droplets and a knitting needle made of Teflon. This series of overlapping frames from Feb.
Posted December 19, 2025
NASA Shared Services Center
Services Catalog Click here to view the FY25 Services Catalog The catalogs provide service description, chargeback rate, unit of measure, and service level indicators for each NSSC service.
Posted December 19, 2025
Night Sky Network
In 2019, Betelgeuse dimmed in brightness, sparking speculation that it may soon explode as a supernova. While it likely won’t explode quite yet, we can preview its fate by observing the nearby Crab Nebula.
Posted December 19, 2025
ISS Research
Biological & Physical Sciences
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA opens the International Space Station for scientists and researchers, inviting them to use the benefits of microgravity for private industry research, technology demonstrations, and more.
Posted December 19, 2025
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