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Cells are the fundamental units of life, forming the variety of all living things on Earth as individual cells and multi-cellular organisms.
Posted May 2, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Wallops Flight Facility
By Jessica Barnett  After months of preparation and years since its last flight, the upgraded High Resolution Coronal Imager Flare mission – Hi-C Flare, for short – took to the skies for a never-before-seen view of a solar flare. The low-noise cameras – built at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama – are […]
Posted May 2, 2024
GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer)
This Dec. 21, 2002, artist’s concept of NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer imagines what the space telescope would look like during its mission. Launched April 28, 2003, it studied the shape, brightness, size and distance of galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history.
Posted May 2, 2024
Blogs
Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Today’s planning was a little out of the ordinary. Not in terms of the plan itself, Curiosity’s team built an exciting plan utilizing much of its science toolkit. Today’s plan was unusual rather due to my role as APXS PUDL Reverse Shadow (PUDL = Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead). While I normally staff […]
Posted May 2, 2024
Earth
Earth Science
As human populations grow, habitat loss threatens many creatures. Mapping wildlife habitat using satellites is a rapidly expanding area of ecology, and NASA satellites play a crucial role in these efforts. Tigers, jaguars, and elephants are a few of the vulnerable animals whose habitats NASA is helping track from space.
Posted May 2, 2024
Astrophysics
Citizen Science
Earth Science
Heliophysics
NASA Open Source Software
Planetary Science
Congrats to NASA partner Zooniverse for being named winners in the White House’s Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge!
Posted May 2, 2024
Mars
Marshall Space Flight Center
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Opportunities to Contribute to NASA Missions & Get Involved
NASA has awarded nearly $1.5 million to academic, non-profit, and business organizations to advance state-of-the-art technology that will play a key role in the agency’s return to the Moon under Artemis, as well as future missions to Mars.
Posted May 2, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC) has selected six visionary concept studies for additional funding and development.
Posted May 2, 2024
Europa Clipper
Jupiter
Jupiter Moons
NASA STEM Projects
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
STEM Engagement at NASA
The Solar System
Uncategorized
NASA has selected 40 undergraduate students for the first year of its Europa ICONS (Inspiring Clipper: Opportunities for Next-generation Scientists) internship program, supporting the agency’s Europa Clipper mission.
Posted May 2, 2024
Kennedy Space Center
Astronauts
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Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Headquarters
People of NASA
As NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore launches aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station Monday, May 6 on its first crewed flight, one of his best friends will have played a key role in getting him there.  Billy Stover, chief safety officer for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and Wilmore have been friends for more […]
Posted May 2, 2024
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