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Portrait of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli

Posted October 13, 2023

Artemis I Team Receives Laurels Award for Team Achievement

The International Academy of Astronautics has awarded its 2023 Laurels for Team Achievement award to the international team that supported NASA’s Artemis I mission. The academy presented the award Oct.

Posted October 13, 2023

Expedition 70

International Space Station (ISS)

Official portrait of NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara

Posted October 13, 2023

Carlos I. Noriega

Johnson's Mission Control Center

Astronaut Carlos Noriega at Mission Control

In this image from Jan. 15, 2003, astronaut Carlos I. Noriega, spacecraft communicator, smiles while sitting at his console in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. At the time this photo was taken, astronauts Kenneth D. Bowersox and Donald R.

Posted October 13, 2023

Expedition 70

International Space Station (ISS)

Expedition 70 Flight Engineers Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara

Posted October 13, 2023

Psyche Mission

Asteroids

Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)

Missions

Psyche Asteroid

Technology Demonstration

Technology Demonstration Missions Program

The Solar System

NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft, Optical Comms Demo En Route to Asteroid

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its voyage to an asteroid of the same name, a metal-rich world that could tell us more about the formation of rocky planets. Psyche successfully launched 10:19 a.m. EDT Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Integrated onto the […]

Posted October 13, 2023

Aeronautics

General

Larry Young Receives AIAA Wright Brothers Lectureship Award

In June 2023, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) awarded the 2023 AIAA Wright Brothers Lectureship in Aeronautics to Larry Young, a researcher in the Aeromechanics Office at NASA Ames Research Center. As part of this award, Mr.

Posted October 13, 2023

NASA History

65 Years Ago: First Factory Rollout of the X-15 Hypersonic Rocket Plane

On Oct. 15, 1958, the first X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft rolled out of its factory. A joint project among NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy, the X-15 greatly expanded our knowledge of flight at speeds exceeding Mach 6 and altitudes above 250,000 feet. Between 1959 and 1968, 12 pilots completed 199 missions, […]

Posted October 13, 2023

Climate Change

Earth

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA September 2023 Temperature Data Shows Continued Record Warming

Continuing the temperature trend from this summer, September 2023 was the hottest September on record, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The month also set the record for the highest temperature anomaly – the largest difference from the long-term average.

Posted October 13, 2023

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Transformational Tools Technologies

Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program

NASA Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2023: Azlin Biaggi-Labiosa

Dr. Azlin Biaggi-Labiosa, born and raised in Puerto Rico, made a courageous decision to pivot her academic studies – launching her towards an accomplished career in defense, space, and aeronautics research for NASA. She headed to medical school after earning her undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico.

Posted October 13, 2023