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NASA Awards Contract for Safety and Mission Assurance Services

NASA has selected KBR Wyle Services LLC, of Fulton, Maryland, to provide safety and mission assurance services to the agency.

Posted June 10, 2024

Citizen Science

Earth Science

Floods

North Carolina Volunteers Work Toward Cleaner Well Water

When the ground floods during a storm, floodwaters wash bacteria and other contaminants into private wells. But thanks to citizen scientists in North Carolina, we now know a bit more about how to deal with this problem. A new NASA-Funded study describes the contributions of these volunteers and how their work makes other disaster data more useful.

Posted June 10, 2024

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Shared Services Center

NASA Awards Contract for IT Support, Platform Services

NASA has selected CACI, Inc. of Chantilly, Virginia, to maintain and improve IT services across the agency. The NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services (NCAPS) award is a hybrid firm-fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity provision and a maximum potential value of about $2 billion.

Posted June 10, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Stars

The Universe

Hubble Finds Surprises Around a Star That Erupted 40 Years Ago

Astronomers have used new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the retired SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) as well as archival data from other missions to revisit one of the strangest binary star systems in our galaxy – 40 years after it burst onto the scene as a bright and long-lived nova. A nova is a star […]

Posted June 10, 2024

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Missions

Origin & Evolution of the Universe

Science & Research

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Opens New Window on Supernova Science

Peering deeply into the cosmos, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving scientists their first detailed glimpse of supernovae from a time when our universe was just a small fraction of its current age. A team using Webb data has identified 10 times more supernovae in the early universe than were previously known. A few […]

Posted June 10, 2024

Spinoffs

Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer & Spinoffs

Food Safety Program for Space Has Taken Over on Earth

System created for Apollo astronaut food has become the global standard for hazard prevention

Posted June 10, 2024

Apollo 8

William A. Anders

“Earthrise” by NASA Astronaut Bill Anders

NASA astronaut Bill Anders took this iconic image of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon on Dec. 24, 1968. Anders, lunar module pilot on the Apollo 8 mission, and fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell became the first humans to orbit the Moon and the first to witness the sight pictured. After becoming a […]

Posted June 10, 2024

Management and Program Analyst Mallory Carbon

“I feel that my larger purpose at NASA, which I’ve felt since I came on as an intern, is to leave NASA a better place than I found it. I know there are so many people who are just like myself, who have had this big, huge dream of being at NASA from some sort […]

Posted June 10, 2024

Mars

Curiosity (Rover)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)

NASA Watches Mars Light Up During Epic Solar Storm

In addition to producing auroras, a recent extreme storm provided more detail on how much radiation future astronauts could encounter on the Red Planet. Mars scientists have been anticipating epic solar storms ever since the Sun entered a period of peak activity earlier this year called solar maximum. Over the past month, NASA’s Mars rovers […]

Posted June 10, 2024

Marshall Science Research & Projects

Marshall Heliophysics & Planetary Science

Eclipse Shadow Bands Interview with Country Living

Dennis Gallagher (ST13) was interviewed by Senior Editor Terri Robertson with Country Living on 3/14/24. Questions included what is thought to cause them, how can you increase you chance of seeing them, and why is it easier to see them on a light-colored surface?

Posted June 10, 2024