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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

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA to Test Solution for Radiation-Tolerant Computing in Space

Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation systems to life support technology, science data retrieval and analysis, communications, and reentry. But computers in space are susceptible to ionizing solar and cosmic radiation.

Posted January 8, 2025

Johnson Space Center

General

Johnson's Mission Control Center

Houston, We Have the Holiday Cookies

Supporting the International Space Station is an around-the-clock responsibility for NASA and its international partners. This means there is always a team of flight operations and payload personnel working with the orbiting laboratory’s crew – including overnight, on weekends, and during the holidays.

Posted January 8, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Kennedy Space Center

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Electrodynamic Dust Shield Heading to Moon on Firefly Lander

Defeating dust may be a small concern for most people on Earth, but for astronauts and spacecraft destined for the Moon or Mars, it is a significant hazard that must be mitigated. That’s why researchers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are seeking innovative ways to use the Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) technology. The […]

Posted January 8, 2025

Earth Science

AMS Hyperwall Schedule

NASA Science at AMS Hyperwall Schedule, January 13-16, 2025 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #401) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, JANUARY 13 6:10 – 6:25 PM The Golden Age of Ocean Science: How NASA’s Newest Missions Advance the Study of Oceans in our Earth System Dr. Karen […]

Posted January 8, 2025