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Team Mindset Fuels NASA Stennis Test Operations Leader

One thing has remained constant throughout Maury Vander’s career with NASA – the satisfaction of being part of a team working to innovate and benefit the agency and the aerospace industry at large. As chief of the Test Operations Division at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, Vander provides guidance and help with technical challenges to a […]

Posted February 1, 2024

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Captures a Suspected Galaxy Encounter

UGC 3912 is classified as a spiral galaxy … but you wouldn’t know it from this detailed NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. UGC 3912’s distorted shape is typically indicative of a gravitational encounter with another galaxy. When galaxies interact – either brush up against each other’s gravitational fields or even collide – their stars, dust, […]

Posted February 1, 2024

Night Sky Network

February’s Night Sky Notes: Constant Companions: Circumpolar Constellations, Part I

Some constellations can be as familiar as old friends. Learn about three of them in February’s Night Sky Notes!

Posted February 1, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

SimLabs

The Marshall Star for January 31, 2024

Marshall Commemorates NASA’s Day of Remembrance By Celine Smith Team members across NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center congregated Jan. 25 in the lobby of Building 4221 to observe NASA’s Day of Remembrance. Each January, the agency pauses to honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and […]

Posted January 31, 2024

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Super-Earth Exoplanets

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone

A newly discovered ‘super-Earth’ dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized companion.

Posted January 31, 2024

NASA Awards Environmental Restoration, Compliance Contract

NASA has selected five companies to provide environmental restoration and compliance services at NASA centers, facilities, and other agency assets. The awardees are: The NASA Environmental Restoration and Compliance Contract is an indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity fixed price contract not to exceed $375 million.

Posted January 31, 2024

Humans in Space

Commercial Crew

Commercial Space

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

Missions

NASA Shares Assignments for its SpaceX Crew-9 Space Station Mission

As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission, four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station and conduct a wide-ranging set of operational and research activities for the benefit of all.

Posted January 31, 2024

Commercial Resupply

Kennedy Space Center

Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply

Cygnus Flies to the International Space Station

In this image from Jan. 30, 2024, an uncrewed Cygnus cargo spacecraft launches atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, starting its journey to the International Space Station. Launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Cygnus carries 8,200 pounds of science investigations and cargo to support dozens of research experiments.

Posted January 31, 2024

Missions

Earth

Earth Science

NASA Sets Coverage for Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Mission

Editor’s note: This advisory was updated on Jan. 31, 2024, to update participant names in the science briefing. NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for its upcoming mission to study how our oceans and atmosphere interact in a changing climate.

Posted January 31, 2024

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)