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Astrobiology
Internships
At the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, interns from Cal State LA are learning key skills studying the origins of life. What does wastewater management in Los Angeles have to do with the search for life on Mars? Eduardo Martinez certainly didn’t make the connection when he was pursuing a master’s in civil engineering. Not at […]
Posted April 26, 2024
NASA Engineering and Safety Center
Download PDF: Trajectory Reverse Engineering A strategy for transferring spacecraft trajectories between flight mechanics tools, called Trajectory Reverse Engineering (TRE), has been developed[1].
Posted April 26, 2024
ISS Research
Commercial Crew
Commercial Resupply
Commercial Space
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Johnson Space Center
NASA partners with commercial companies to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation of cargo and crew members to and from the International Space Station.
Posted April 26, 2024
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Earth
Earth Science Division
Earth Science Technology Office
Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard Technology
Science Mission Directorate
Technology
It took the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission just 13 minutes to reach low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in February 2024. It took a network of scientists at NASA and research institutions around the world more than 20 years to carefully craft and test the novel instruments that allow PACE […]
Posted April 26, 2024
Artemis 1
Astronauts
Learning Resources
STEM Engagement at NASA
After careful review of hundreds of applications, NASA has selected organizations from across the country to receive ‘Moon Tree’ seedlings that flew around the Moon on the agency’s Artemis I mission in 2022, to plant in their communities.
Posted April 25, 2024
Psyche Mission
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Tech Demo Missions
Technology Demonstration Missions Program
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the Psyche spacecraft’s communication system for the first time, transmitting engineering data to Earth. Riding aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the agency’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration continues to break records.
Posted April 25, 2024
Apollo
Earth's Moon
An artist uses an airbrush to recreate the lunar surface on one of the four models comprising the LOLA, or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach, simulator in this November 12, 1964, photo. Project LOLA was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. In “Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley […]
Posted April 25, 2024
Johnson Space Center
On April 10, 2024, Johnson Space Center celebrated the opening of the Four Nine Team conference center housed in building 419.
Posted April 25, 2024
Langley Research Center
Learning Resources
A 12th grade artist with a passion for NASA and space took home the top prize for the 2024 NASA Student Art Contest, a nationwide competition hosted by NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Esther Lee, of Washington State, was selected as the grand prize winner for her submission “Beyond Imagination,” which depicts a […]
Posted April 25, 2024
Blogs
Curiosity (Rover)
Mars
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Earth planning date: Wednesday April 24, 2024 Here on Earth (in Toronto, specifically), it’s a very typical April which can’t quite make up its mind about whether or not it wants to be spring. On Mars (in Gale Crater), we’re well into spring, and Curiosity is enjoying the (relatively) warmer weather. As the days get […]
Posted April 25, 2024
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