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NASA and its industry partners Boeing and SpaceX are planning for the next set of missions to the International Space Station for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Crew-8 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the orbiting laboratory is targeted to launch no earlier than mid-February.

Posted October 27, 2023

Glenn History

Glenn Research Center

NASA History

Glenn Hangar Has Long Been the Face of the Center

The Flight Research Building, or hangar, at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has not only housed the center’s aircraft and Flight Operations team for decades, but has also served as a visual representation of the center for the public. NASA has taken advantage of the hangar’s size and shape — along with its location […]

Posted October 27, 2023

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Captures a Galactic Dance

This striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the interacting galaxy pair known as Arp-Madore 2339-661.

Posted October 27, 2023

Drones & You

Aeronáutica

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Glenn Research Center

Langley Research Center

NASA en español

Aviones de movilidad aérea avanzada: un viaje suave en el futuro

Lee esta historia en inglés aquí. Hoy en día, los pasajeros de avión esperan un viaje tranquilo con pocas turbulencias. Aunque las turbulencias no siempre pueden evitarse, las consideraciones y diseños de los aviones limitan lo que siente el pasajero.

Posted October 26, 2023

Artemis 2

Exploration Ground Systems

Kennedy Space Center

Artemis II Water Deluge Test

NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems conducts a water flow test with the mobile launcher at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s in Florida on Oct. 24, 2023. It is the third in a series of tests to verify the overpressure protection and sound suppression system is ready for launch of the Artemis II mission. During liftoff, 400,000 gallons […]

Posted October 26, 2023

Mars

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Solar System

NASA Is Locating Ice on Mars With This New Map

The map could help the agency decide where the first astronauts to the Red Planet should land. The more available water, the less missions will need to bring. Buried ice will be a vital resource for the first people to set foot on Mars, serving as drinking water and a key ingredient for rocket fuel. […]

Posted October 26, 2023

Earth

Natural Disasters

NASA, Pacific Disaster Center Increase Landslide Hazard Awareness

Communities worldwide now have access to a powerful tool to increase their awareness of landslide hazards, thanks to NASA and the Pacific Disaster Center.

Posted October 26, 2023

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Tech Breathes Life Into Potentially Game-Changing Antenna Design

Some 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was home in the evening making chocolate pudding when he got what turned out to be a very serendipitous call from his mother. Taking the call, he shut off the stove and stretched plastic wrap over the pot to keep the pudding fresh. By the […]

Posted October 26, 2023

IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)

Marshall Space Flight Center

IXPE Untangles Theories Surrounding Historic Supernova Remnant

NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) telescope has captured the first polarized X-ray imagery of the supernova remnant SN 1006. The new results expand scientists’ understanding of the relationship between magnetic fields and the flow of high-energy particles from exploding stars.

Posted October 26, 2023

NASA en español

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Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

Commander Callie Continues Moon Mission in NASA’s New Graphic Novel

Fictional astronaut Callie Rodriguez continues exploring space as the first woman to walk on the Moon in a new issue of NASA’s First Woman graphic novel series.

Posted October 26, 2023