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With support from NASA, the international GoAERO Prize competition recently announced funding for 14 U.S.

Posted February 11, 2025

Sols 4447–4449: Looking Back at the Marker Band Valley

Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 7, 2025 We are continuing our merry way alongside “Texoli” butte, heading toward the boxworks feature in the distance, our next major waypoint. This is a series of large-scale ridges, which appear from orbital data to be a complex fracture network. Of course, we don’t actually expect to get there […]

Posted February 11, 2025

STS-80

Mount Everest from Space

Crew aboard space shuttle Columbia captured this image of Mount Everest on Nov. 30, 1996, during the STS-80 mission. STS-80, the final shuttle flight of 1996, was highlighted by the successful deployment, operation, and retrieval of two free-flying research spacecraft. See more photos from this mission. Image credit: NASA

Posted February 11, 2025

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Astrophysics Pioneers

Kennedy Space Center

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Space Operations Mission Directorate

NASA Awards Launch Service Task Order for Pandora Mission

NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Pandora mission, which will study at least 20 known exoplanets and their host stars to find out how changes in stars affect our observations of exoplanet atmospheres.

Posted February 10, 2025

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International Space Station (ISS)

Station Science Top News: Feb. 7, 2025

Measuring water loss from space This study showed that the International Space Station’s ECOSTRESS instrument estimates of evapotranspiration (transfer of water to the atmosphere from Earth’s surface and plants) are comparable to ground-based reference values.

Posted February 10, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

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People of NASA

Elizabeth Tammi Gives Hubble a Voice

Name: Elizabeth Tammi Title: Hubble Space Telescope Social Media Lead Formal Job Classification: Communications Specialist Organization: Hubble Space Telescope Operations (Code 441) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission?

Posted February 10, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

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People of NASA

Jesse Walsh: Possibility at the Cutting Edge of Flight

Name: Jesse Walsh Formal Job Classification: Project Formulation Manager Organization: Project Formulation and Development Office, Flight Projects Directorate (Code 401.0) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission?

Posted February 10, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

People of Goddard

Wallops Flight Facility

Keith Koehler: Listening and Leading as Wallops’ News Chief

Name: Keith Koehler Title: News Chief Formal Job Classification: Public Affairs Specialist Organization: Office of Communications, Wallops Flight Facility, Goddard Space Flight Center (Code 130.4) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission?

Posted February 10, 2025

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Margaret Dominguez Helps NASA Space Telescopes Open Their ‘Eyes’ to the Universe

Name: Margaret Dominguez Formal Job Classification: Optical engineer Organization: Code 551, Optics Branch, Instrument Systems and Technology Division, Engineering Directorate What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission? I build space telescopes.

Posted February 10, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

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People of NASA

Melissa Gates: Keeping Goddard Running

Name: Melissa Gates Title: Secretary III Organization: Mission Systems Engineering Branch, Engineering Technology Directorate (Code 599) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission?

Posted February 10, 2025