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Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
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Gateway is set to advance science in deep space, bringing groundbreaking research opportunities to lunar orbit.
Posted October 29, 2024
Blogs
Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 25, 2024 The changes to the plan Wednesday, moving the drive a sol earlier, meant that we started off planning this morning about 18 meters (about 59 feet) farther along the western edge of Gediz Vallis and with all the data we needed for planning. This included the knowledge that […]
Posted October 29, 2024
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Spitzer Space Telescope
Star Clusters
Stars
Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out large amounts of high-energy radiation, which can disrupt relatively fragile disks of dust and gas that are in the process of coalescing to form new planets. A team of astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, in […]
Posted October 28, 2024
Citizen Science
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Plant Biology
Science Activation
Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE)
Since 2015, students from across the USA have been partnering with scientists at NASA to advance research on growing plants in space, ultimately to feed astronauts on long-distance space missions, as part of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Growing Beyond Earth project, which is now in its 9th year.
Posted October 28, 2024
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA astronaut Don Pettit fills a sphere of water with food coloring in this image from Oct. 20, 2024.
Posted October 28, 2024
Perseverance (Rover)
Astrobiology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
On its way up the side of Jezero Crater, the agency’s latest Red Planet off-roader peers all the way back to its landing site and scopes the path ahead.   NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is negotiating a steeply sloping route up Jezero Crater’s western wall with the aim of cresting the rim in early December. […]
Posted October 28, 2024
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday Mike Kincaid, associate administrator, Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM), and Alexander MacDonald, chief economist, will retire from the agency. Following Kincaid’s departure on Nov.
Posted October 28, 2024
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully completed integration of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument onto Roman’s Instrument Carrier, a piece of infrastructure that will hold the mission’s instruments, which will be integrated onto the larger spacecraft at a later date.
Posted October 28, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 3
Earth's Moon
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Human Landing System Program
Humans in Space
Space Launch System (SLS)
As NASA prepares for the first crewed Moon landing in more than five decades, the agency has identified an updated set of nine potential landing regions near the lunar South Pole for its Artemis III mission. These areas will be further investigated through scientific and engineering study. NASA will continue to survey potential areas for […]
Posted October 28, 2024
Blogs
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024 Curiosity is driving along the western edge of the Gediz Vallis channel, heading for a good vantage point before turning westward and leaving the channel behind to explore the canyons beyond. The contact science for “Chuck Pass” on sol 4341 and backwards 30-meter drive (about 98 feet) on […]
Posted October 26, 2024
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