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White Sands Test Facility
General
Johnson Space Center
Ruidoso, New Mexico lay in an unusual hush on June 20, 2024. During any normal summer day, the village in the southern part of the state lives up to the Spanish translation of its name — noisy.  But the bustle of this vacation hotspot, which attracts nearly 2 million visitors each year, was stifled by […]
Posted September 25, 2024
Climate Change
Earth
Earth Science
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Oceans
Sea Level Rise
Climate change is rapidly reshaping a region of the world that’s home to millions of people. In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches (15 centimeters) of sea level rise, according to an analysis by NASA’s sea level change science team. This amount […]
Posted September 25, 2024
Langley Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
As NASA moves forward with efforts to establish a long-term presence on the Moon as part of the Artemis campaign, safely moving cargo from landers to the lunar surface is a crucial capability.   Whether the cargo, also known as payloads, are small scientific experiments or large technology to build infrastructure, there won’t be a crew […]
Posted September 25, 2024
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
Stars
The Universe
Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas outshining its stars.
Posted September 25, 2024
Digital Transformation (DT)
Lori Arnett approaches her work at NASA with a simple motto: think big, start small, act fast. As the Associate Director for Digital Transformation for the Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities (AETC) within the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD), she helps manage the capability portfolio for wind tunnels across the agency.
Posted September 25, 2024
Former Astronauts
José M. Hernández
Space Shuttle
In this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the camera as he waits for his turn to enter the space shuttle Discovery as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle mission and the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 crew conducted […]
Posted September 24, 2024
Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
NASA has awarded a contract extension to Stanford University, California, to continue the mission and services for the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument on the agency’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Posted September 24, 2024
General
NASA launched the next phase of its art program with two new space-themed murals in New York’s Hudson Square neighborhood in Manhattan. The vision of the reimagined NASA Art Program is to inspire and engage the Artemis Generation with community murals and other art projects for the benefit of humanity.  “To continue pushing the boundaries […]
Posted September 24, 2024
Blogs
Earth planning date: Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 After a busy weekend of activities, Curiosity is ready for another week of planning. One of the activities over the weekend was our periodic check-in on our wheels to see how they are holding up on the rough terrain. The image shows the MAHLI view of the right-middle […]
Posted September 24, 2024
People of Goddard
Goddard Space Flight Center
People of NASA
Senior Resource Analyst Julie Rivera Pérez ensures finances and assets are in place to enable missions’ engineering and science “magic” can happen. As a former intern, she also reaches out to current students to ensure a diverse and inclusive future workforce.
Posted September 24, 2024
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