NASA Headquarters

NASA Sets Coverage for White House National Space Council Meeting

NASA is participating in a meeting of the National Space Council on Wednesday, Dec. 20, in Washington. The meeting, chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris, will focus on international partnerships and is the third council meeting held by the Biden-Harris Administration.

Posted December 20, 2023

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory)

Infrared Light

Missions

NASA Headquarters

Origin & Evolution of the Universe

Science & Research

Scientific Balloons

NASA’s GUSTO Prepares to Map Space Between the Stars

On a vast ice sheet in Antarctica, scientists and engineers are preparing a NASA experiment called GUSTO to explore the universe on a balloon. GUSTO will launch from the Ross Ice Shelf, near the U.S. National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station research base, no earlier than Dec. 21.

Posted December 18, 2023

Heliophysics

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Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Space Weather

NASA Signs Memorandum of Agreement for Space Weather

On Dec. 7, 2023, Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, signed on behalf of the agency the Memorandum of Agreement for Space Weather Research-To-Operations-To-Research Collaboration.

Posted December 8, 2023

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NASA Names New Highest-Ranking Civil Servant, Head of Exploration

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Wednesday Jim Free’s promotion to associate administrator for the agency at NASA Headquarters in Washington, effective when his predecessor Bob Cabana retires on Sunday, Dec. 31.

Posted November 16, 2023

NASA Headquarters

NASA’s Worm Logo

The NASA Worm Logo sign at the NASA Headquarters building in Washington is unveiled in this image from June 21, 2023. The unveiling occurred just before NASA’s Earth Information Center, an immersive experience combining live data sets with cutting-edge data visualization and storytelling, opened to the public. On Nov.

Posted November 6, 2023

General

Climate Change

Langley Research Center

NASA Headquarters

OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)

Ozone Layer

Quesst (X-59)

Supersonic Flight

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023

As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids, extracting oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, and revolutionizing flight have been named TIME’s Inventions of 2023. TIME announced the honorees on Oct. 24.

Posted October 27, 2023

Psyche Asteroid

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Headquarters

NASA Sets Coverage for Psyche Spacecraft Launch to Metal World

NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for its Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid. Launch is targeted for 10:16 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Live launch coverage without commentary will begin at 9:15 […]

Posted October 5, 2023