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LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in mid-January As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ultimately build a sustained human presence at the Moon for decades to come.

Posted January 10, 2025

Learning Resources

In-flight Education Downlinks

Outside the Classroom

New Jersey Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station

Students from the Toms River School District in New Jersey will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Butch Wilmore as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related questions from aboard the International Space Station.

Posted January 10, 2025

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Elliptical Galaxies

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Lensing

Hubble Space Telescope

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Rings In the New Year

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies depicted here span a mind-bending range of distances. The objects in this image that are nearest to us are stars within our own Milky Way galaxy. You can easily spot these stars by their diffraction […]

Posted January 10, 2025

Earth Science

Summary of the 2024 NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting

Introduction The 2024 NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place from April 2–4, 2024 at the Marriott Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg, MD. During the meeting, 75 people attended in-person.

Posted January 9, 2025

Johnson Space Center

General

35 Years Ago: STS-32 Returns the Long Duration Exposure Facility

On Jan. 9, 1990, space shuttle Columbia took off on its ninth flight, STS-32, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

Posted January 9, 2025

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Helicopter Removes Artifact from NASA Armstrong Rooftop

What do the X-15 and the space shuttles have in common? Information from the rocket plane and the spacecraft, as well as many experimental aircraft, were tracked from a pedestal and telemetry dish during key eras in flight history at or near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. When the NASA facility’s administration […]

Posted January 9, 2025

Achieving Instrument High Accuracy In-Orbit

One of the most challenging tasks in remote sensing from space is achieving required instrument calibration accuracy on-orbit. The Moon is considered to be an excellent exoatmospheric calibration source. However, the current accuracy of the Moon as an absolute reference is limited to 5 – 10%, and this level of accuracy is inadequate to meet […]

Posted January 9, 2025

Kennedy Space Center

Grants & Opportunities

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s Kennedy Marks New Chapter for Florida Space Industry

The future of research and technology at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is expanding Wednesday, as Kennedy’s center director and charter members in the Florida University Space Research Consortium signed a memorandum of understanding in research and development to assist with missions and contribute to NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approa

Posted January 9, 2025

Blogs

A Rover Retrospective: Turning Trials to Triumphs in 2024

A look back at a few Mars 2020 mission highlights of 2024 Perseverance’s past year operating on the surface of Mars was filled with some of the mission’s highest highs, but also some of its greatest challenges. True to its name and its reputation as a mission that overcomes challenges, Perseverance and its team […]

Posted January 9, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Selects Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contractor

NASA has selected Columbus Technologies and Services Inc. of El Segundo, California, to provide electrical and electronic engineering support to the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted January 8, 2025