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Johnson Space Center
ISS Research
NASA Headquarters
NASA has selected 12 companies to provide research, engineering, and mission integration services for the International Space Station Program.
Posted January 12, 2024
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Commercial Supersonic Technology
Glenn Research Center
Integrated Aviation Systems Program
Langley Research Center
Low Boom Flight Demonstrator
NASA Aircraft
Quesst (X-59)
Quesst: The Vehicle
Supersonic Flight
NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to gather data that could revolutionize air travel, paving the way for a new generation of commercial aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound.
Posted January 12, 2024
Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP)
January 15th, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a federal holiday designated as the National Day of Service.  For the month of January, we will be celebrating OSBP in the Community!  Join us as we spotlight how our advocacy extends beyond our commitment to small businesses. Truphelia M. Parker- Program Specialist, NASA Headquarters Naeemah A. […]
Posted January 12, 2024
Commercial Crew
Commercial Space
NASA Aircraft
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA’s C-130 Hercules, managed at Wallops Flight Facility’s Aircraft Office in Virginia, provided aerial delivery support for a successful commercial crew parachute airdrop test Jan. 9 at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.
Posted January 12, 2024
NASA Headquarters
Climate Change
Earth
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Read this release in English here. En el año 2023, la temperatura promedio de la superficie de la Tierra fue la más cálida que se haya registrado, según un análisis de la NASA. Las temperaturas globales del año pasado estuvieron alrededor de 1,2 grados Celsius (2,1 grados Fahrenheit) por encima del promedio para el período de […]
Posted January 12, 2024
Glenn Research Center
2024 Solar Eclipse
Solar Eclipses
At NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, we pride ourselves on making the seemingly impossible, possible. From creating more fuel-efficient jet engines and exploring advances in air mobility, to enhancing radio frequency and optical communications technology, Glenn plays an important role in many of NASA’s most prestigious missions.
Posted January 12, 2024
Earth
Climate Change
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Earth’s average surface temperature in 2023 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA.
Posted January 12, 2024
Landsat 9
The Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 captured this image of Simsbury, Connecticut on September 15, 2022. Martin Luther King Jr. and other students from Morehouse College worked summers on a tobacco farm, Meadowood, in Simsbury in 1944 and 1947 to earn money for tuition.
Posted January 12, 2024
Astrophysics
Citizen Science
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) met in New Orleans this week, attended by thousands of astronomers and reporters, and NASA volunteers were in the spotlight. Wow! Big congratulations to everyone involved!
Posted January 12, 2024
NASA History
In space since their launch on Nov. 16, 1973, Skylab 4 astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue began the new year of 1974 roughly halfway through their planned 84-day mission. By the end of January, the three rookies held the records for the longest single space flight and the most […]
Posted January 11, 2024
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