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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)

An Opportunity to Study Water

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

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Looks Back While Climbing Slippery Slope

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 Announces STEM Engagement Lead, Chief Economist Retirements

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 Successfully Integrates Coronagraph for Roman Space Telescope

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)

NASA Provides Update on Artemis III Moon Landing Regions

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

Sols 4343-4344: Late Slide, Late Changes

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

Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR)

Artemis Accords

Missions

NASA Welcomes Chile as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

Chile signed the Artemis Accords Friday during a ceremony hosted by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, becoming the 47th nation and the seventh South American country to commit to the responsible exploration of space for all humanity.

Posted October 26, 2024

Blogs

Red Rocks with Green Spots at ‘Serpentine Rapids’

After discovering and sampling the “leopard spots” of “Bright Angel,” it became apparent that Perseverance’s journey of discovery in this region was not yet finished.

Posted October 25, 2024

NASA en español

Aeronáutica

Hispanic Heritage Month