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Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Kennedy Space Center
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Tuesday, Dec.
Posted December 10, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 2
Kennedy Space Center
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test flight returned to the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) cell following completion of the second round of vacuum chamber testing on Dec. 5 inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After returning to the FAST cell, the […]
Posted December 10, 2024
General
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Registration is open for digital content creators to attend the launch of NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission, and NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission.
Posted December 10, 2024
Exoplanet Atmosphere
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
The Planet WASP-69 b The Discovery The exoplanet WASP-69 b has a “tail,” leaving a trail of gas in its wake. Key Takeaway  WASP-69 b is slowly losing its atmosphere as light hydrogen and helium particles in the planet’s outer atmosphere escape the planet over time. But those gas particles don’t escape evenly around the […]
Posted December 10, 2024
2024 Solar Eclipse
Citizen Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Solar Eclipses
The Sun
Uncategorized
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse swept across North America, from the western shores of Mexico, through the United States, and into northeastern Canada. For the eclipse, NASA helped fund numerous research projects and called upon citizen scientists in support of NASA’s goal to understand how our home planet is affected by the […]
Posted December 10, 2024
Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
The Space Technology Payload Challenge invites individuals, teams, and organizations to submit applications for systems that advance technology to address one or more of NASA’s shortfalls. These shortfalls identify technology areas where further technology development is required to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs.
Posted December 10, 2024
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
NASA’s Synthetic Biology Project is turning to the 3D printing experts in the GrabCAD community for ideas and or designs that could lead to the ability to reuse and recycle small scale bioreactors to reduce the mass and volume requirements for deep space missions. Ideally, designs that could be printed using a 3D printer, using […]
Posted December 10, 2024
Blogs
Earth planning date: Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 We successfully arrived in our new exploration quadrangle — the Altadena quad — which is named after a town on Earth very near our own Jet Propulsion Laboratory! The names from this quad will recognize the incredible interaction between Altadena and its surrounding environs with the San Andreas […]
Posted December 10, 2024
NASA History
Astronauts
Former Astronauts
People of NASA
On Dec. 8, 1994, NASA announced the selection of its 15th group of astronauts. The diverse group comprised 19 candidates – 10 pilots and nine mission specialists, and included five women, two African Americans, one Asian American, and the first Peruvian-born and Indian-born astronauts.
Posted December 10, 2024
Skywatching
Skywatching Tips
The Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon, Frost Moon, or the Winter Moon; the Moon before Yule or the Oak Moon; the Long Night Moon; the Child Moon; the Datta or Dattatreya Jayanti Festival Moon; the Karthika Deepam Festival Moon; Unduvap Poya; and the Chang’e Moon. The next full Moon will be Sunday morning, […]
Posted December 10, 2024
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