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XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission)
At a time when phone cameras are capable of taking snapshots with millions of pixels, an instrument on the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) satellite captures revolutionary science with just 36 of them. “That may sound impossible, but it’s actually true,” said Richard Kelley, the U.S.
Posted April 30, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
NASA Engineering and Safety Center
NASA Safety Center
NASA works on projects that often have never been done, or perhaps the way they are being done has never been tried. Living on the edge of innovation requires a high degree of risk. After organizational silence led to the loss of space shuttle Challenger and its crew in 1986, NASA vowed to change the […]
Posted April 30, 2024
“When people begin their careers, they start as an individual contributor. You’re a technical expert; your worth and your value are based on what you know and what you can do as an individual.  “Then there’s an interesting journey that you have to take from an individual contributor to a leader of people. I enjoy […]
Posted April 30, 2024
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Atmosphere
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Missions
Science & Research
Studying Exoplanets
An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b.
Posted April 30, 2024
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Prizes, Challenges & Crowdsourcing News
In its pursuit to develop groundbreaking technologies to explore space and benefit life on Earth, NASA invites the public to contribute ideas to the agency through participatory opportunities, including challenges. The Cube Quest competition – NASA’s first in-space challenge – kicked off in 2015, offering a total prize purse of $5 million.
Posted April 30, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 4
Gateway Program
Gateway Space Station
The modules for NASA's Gateway space station are taking shape on the ground, with hardware fabrication of HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) and Lunar I-Hab (Lunar International Habitation module) actively underway at a Thales Alenia Space industrial plant in Turin, Italy.
Posted April 30, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is getting ready for the next big step in the evolution of its main campus in Huntsville, Alabama. Through a series of multi-year infrastructure projects, Marshall is optimizing its footprint to assure its place as a vibrant and vital hub for the aerospace community in the next era.  Near-term plans […]
Posted April 30, 2024
Commercial Space
Commercial Crew
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, which will carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from the International Space Station. Launch of the ULA (United Launch Alliance) Atlas V rocket and Boeing Starliner spacecraft is targeted for 10:34 p.m.
Posted April 29, 2024
Horsehead Nebula
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Nebulae
This image of part of the Horsehead Nebula, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and released on April 29, 2024, shows the nebula in a whole new light, capturing the region’s complexity with unprecedented spatial resolution.
Posted April 29, 2024
Humans in Space
Astronauts
Commercial Crew
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
In preparation for the arrival of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, four crew members aboard the International Space Station will relocate the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to a different docking port Thursday, May 2, to make way for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. NASA will provide live coverage of the move beginning at 7:30 a.m. EDT on […]
Posted April 29, 2024
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