NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to launch a sounding rocket carrying student-developed experiments for the RockSat-X mission on Tuesday, Aug. 13. The Terrier-Improved Malemute rocket is expected to reach an altitude of about 100 miles (162 kilometers) before descending by parachute into the Atlantic Ocean to be recovered.

Posted August 8, 2024

Artemis 2

Exploration Ground Systems

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

Artemis Emergency Egress System Emphasizes Crew Safety

Since NASA began sending astronauts to space, the agency has relied on emergency systems for personnel to safely leave the launch pad and escape the hazard in the unlikely event of an emergency during the launch countdown. During the Mercury and Gemini programs, NASA used launch escape systems on spacecraft for the crew to safely […]

Posted August 6, 2024

Johnson Space Center

International Space Station (ISS)

International Space Station Division

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

Station Science Top News: August 2, 2024

Analyses suggest that microgravity does not significantly alter fundamental biochemical pathways in kidney cells, including metabolism of vitamin D.

Posted August 5, 2024

Johnson Space Center

Events

General

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Johnson Dedicates Dorothy Vaughan Center to Women of Apollo

On the eve of the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston commemorated the unsung heroes who helped make humanity’s first steps on the Moon possible. To celebrate their enduring legacy, Johnson named one of its central buildings the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of […]

Posted August 2, 2024

General

Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

High-Tech Computing

NASA Centers & Facilities

Technology

NASA Ames to Host Supercomputing Resources for UC Berkeley Researchers

Under a new agreement, NASA will host supercomputing resources for the University of California, Berkeley, at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.

Posted August 2, 2024

NASA Centers & Facilities

Johnson Space Center

A Picture-Perfect Portrait: Eliza Hoffman’s Take on Dorothy Vaughan

On July 19, 2024, NASA officially named Johnson Space Center’s building 12 the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo.” A portrait of Dorothy Vaughan is now the central feature at the entrance of the newly named building. This portrait was hand-painted by Eliza Hoffman, an accomplished artist who is also a […]

Posted July 31, 2024

Missions

Commercial Crew

Commercial Resupply

Commercial Space Programs

International Space Station (ISS)

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply

Virtual Guest Program

NASA Offers Virtual Activities for 21st Northrop Grumman Resupply Mission

NASA invites the public to participate in virtual activities ahead of the launch of Northrop Grumman’s 21st commercial resupply services mission for the agency. Mission teams are targeting 11:28 a.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 3, for the launch of the company’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at […]

Posted July 29, 2024

International Space Station (ISS)

Commercial Crew

ISS Research

Kennedy Space Center

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA, Boeing to Discuss Crew Flight Test Mission, Ground Testing

Leadership from NASA and Boeing will participate in a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 25, to provide the latest status of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission aboard the International Space Station.

Posted July 23, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

NASA Centers & Facilities

Science & Research

Uncategorized

NASA Rocket Discovers New Energization Process in Upper Atmosphere

When it comes to discoveries about our upper atmosphere, it pays to know your surroundings. Using data from the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) rocket launch, NASA scientist Francesca Di Mare and Gregory Howes from the University of Iowa studied waves traveling down Earth’s magnetic field lines into the polar atmosphere.

Posted July 22, 2024

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

Science & Research

New Evidence Adds to Findings Hinting at Network of Caves on Moon

An international team of scientists using data from NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) has discovered evidence of caves beneath the Moon’s surface.

Posted July 18, 2024