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First Hot Fire Test of the Year for Artemis

Clouds of white vapor pile up at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, during a full-duration, 500-second hot fire of an RS-25 certification engine Jan. 17, 2024. This test series is critical for future flights of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in support of the Artemis campaign. During the Jan. 17 […]

Posted February 1, 2024

Earth

Earth Science

Water & Energy Cycle

OpenET Study Helps Water Managers and Farmers Put NASA Data to Work

As the world looks for sustainable solutions, a system tapping into NASA satellite data for water management has passed a critical test.

Posted February 1, 2024

Centennial Challenges

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Taps Alabama A&M University to Host Break the Ice Lunar Challenge

By Savannah Bullard NASA has selected Alabama A&M University’s Agribition Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to host the final level of the agency’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, using indoor and outdoor space to ground test the finalists’ solutions.

Posted February 1, 2024

Kennedy Space Center

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

Statement from NASA’s Jennifer Kunz at SpaceCom, 50th Space Congress

Jennifer Kunz, associate director technical of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, released the following statement after speaking Thursday at the SpaceCom / 50th Space Congress in Orlando, Florida.

Posted February 1, 2024

Stennis Space Center

Lagniappe for February 2024

Explore the February 2024 edition featuring: Gator Speaks There are two reasons why the last Thursday in January and the month of February are important at NASA moving ahead as the Artemis Generation. Having been around for decades as the NASA Stennis mascot, it is easy to forget important things if you are not intentional […]

Posted February 1, 2024

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

NASA to Study Effects of Radio Noise on Lunar Science

In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch to the Moon’s South Polar region, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative. This mission is part of CLPS’ ongoing effort to bring down the cost for science investigations and technology demonstrations going to the Moon and to make them more routine […]

Posted February 1, 2024

ISS Research

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

Johnson Space Center

Station Science 101: Studying DNA in Space

Long-term space exploration exposes humans to radiation that can damage deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA, which carries the genetic information for our development and functioning. Conditions in space also affect the way the body repairs such damage, potentially compounding the risk.

Posted February 1, 2024

Stennis Space Center

NASA Spinoffs Feature NASA Stennis Developed Technologies

As NASA innovates for the benefit of all, what the agency develops for exploration has the potential to evolve into other technologies with broader use here on Earth.

Posted February 1, 2024

Stennis Space Center

NASA Employee Supports Mission While Inspiring Artemis Generation

NASA inspires as it explores secrets of the universe for the benefit of all – just ask Tony Goretski, the senior employee in the Office of Procurement at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Goretski felt the inspiration long ago on a school trip to the Gulf Coast site, vowing to one […]

Posted February 1, 2024

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