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As part of NASA’s efforts to enable more access to space, four private astronauts are in orbit following the successful launch of the third all private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Axiom Space astronauts lifted off at 4:49 p.m. EST on Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]

Posted January 19, 2024

Galaxies

Galaxy clusters

Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Captures a Monster Merger

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies – NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral – that are in the midst of a collision.

Posted January 18, 2024

AeroSpace Frontiers

General

Glenn Research Center

International Space Station (ISS)

Glenn Supports World Radiocommunication Conference

Reliable space communication and navigation systems are critical to every NASA mission. From the Voyager mission exploring beyond our solar system to astronauts aboard the International Space Station, space communications provide the crucial connection to our home planet.

Posted January 18, 2024

AeroSpace Frontiers

Glenn Research Center

Employees Spread Joy With Toys for Tots Drive

NASA’s Glenn Research Center continued a decades-long tradition of participating in the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program during the 2023 holiday season. On Dec. 11, members of the Marine Corps Reserve (3rd Battalion, 25th  Marine unit) picked up 10 boxes of toys donated by employees from NASA Glenn’s Lewis Field in Cleveland and Neil […]

Posted January 18, 2024

AeroSpace Frontiers

Glenn Research Center

Two NASA Glenn Senior Leaders Retire

Two members of NASA Glenn Research Center’s senior leadership retired on Dec. 30, 2023. Timothy P. McCartney, director of Aeronautics, retired with 38 1/2 years of NASA service.

Posted January 18, 2024

ISS Research

AcrimSat (Active Cavity Irradiance Monitor Satellite)

Monitoring Microorganisms

Science in Space January 2024 Crew members on the International Space Station have a lot of company – millions of bacteria and other microbes. The human body contains 10 times more microbes than human cells, and bacteria and fungi grow in and on just about everything around us on Earth. Most bacteria are harmless, and […]

Posted January 18, 2024

Space Technology Mission Directorate

SBIR STTR

Technology

NASA Invests in Small Business Tech to Advance Alternative Fuels, More

Transitioning cutting-edge research from the lab to life-changing technology in the market is no easy feat and the cost of failure is high, especially for small businesses.

Posted January 18, 2024

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

General

Wideband Technology

Overview As NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) constellation approaches retirement, partnerships with commercial industry will play a critical role in the development of future space communications and navigation architecture.

Posted January 18, 2024

Stennis Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

NASA Continues Artemis Moon Rocket Engine Tests with 1st Hot Fire of 2024

NASA continued a critical test series for future flights of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in support of the Artemis campaign on Jan. 17 with a full-duration hot fire of the RS-25 engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Data collected from the test […]

Posted January 18, 2024

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Laser Instrument on NASA’s LRO Successfully ‘Pings’ Indian Moon Lander

For the first time at the Moon, a laser beam was transmitted and reflected between an orbiting NASA spacecraft and an Oreo-sized device on ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organisation) Vikram lander on the lunar surface. The successful experiment opens the door to a new style of precisely locating targets on the Moon’s surface. At 3 […]

Posted January 18, 2024