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NASA has selected Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston to provide safety and mission assurance services for the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Safety and Mission Assurance II (SMAS II) award is a performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $400 million.

Posted September 15, 2025

Heliophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Solar System

NASA Analysis Shows Sun’s Activity Ramping Up

It looked like the Sun was heading toward a historic lull in activity. That trend flipped in 2008, according to new research. The Sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of 11 years, but there are longer-term variations that can last decades. […]

Posted September 15, 2025

Earth Science

Science Activation

Connecting Educators with NASA Data: Learning Ecosystems Northeast in Action

One of the challenges many teachers face year after year is a sense of working alone. Despite the constant interaction with students many questions often linger: Did the lesson stick? Will students carry this knowledge with them? Will it shape how they see and engage with the world? What can be easy to overlook is […]

Posted September 15, 2025

Blogs

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4655-4660: Boxworks With a View

Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Friday Sept.

Posted September 15, 2025

Mark T. Vande Hei

Matthew Dominick

Helicopter Training for Artemis Missions

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick (left) and Mark Vande Hei (right) prepare to fly out to a landing zone in the Rocky Mountains as part of the certification run for the NASA Artemis course on Aug. 26, 2025. The mountains in northern Colorado offer similar visual illusions and flight environments to the Moon. The newly certified […]

Posted September 15, 2025

Biological & Physical Sciences

Science Mission Directorate

Avatars for Astronaut Health to Fly on NASA’s Artemis II

NASA announced a trailblazing experiment that aims to take personalized medicine to new heights. The experiment is part of a strategic plan to gather valuable scientific data during the Artemis II mission, enabling NASA to “know before we go” back to the lunar surface and on to Mars. The AVATAR (A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog […]

Posted September 15, 2025

Night Sky Network

Weird Ways to Observe the Moon

International Observe the Moon Night is on October 4, 2025, this year– but you can observe the Moon whenever it’s up, day or night! While binoculars and telescopes certainly reveal incredible details of our neighbor’s surface, bringing out dark seas, bright craters, and numerous odd fissures and cracks, these tools are not the only way to […]

Posted September 15, 2025

International Space Station (ISS)

Commercial Resupply

ISS Research

Johnson Space Center

Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply

NASA Science, Cargo Launches Aboard Northrop Grumman CRS-23

NASA is sending more science, technology demonstrations, and crew supplies to the International Space Station following the successful launch of the agency’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 23 mission, or Northrop Grumman CRS-23.

Posted September 15, 2025

Johnson Space Center

People of Johnson

Mechele Elliott Safeguards Agency Information Systems at Johnson

As an IT security administrator at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Mechele Elliott protects the information systems that support astronaut health and mission readiness. The encouragement of a family friend set her on this path, leading to a rewarding and somewhat unexpected career in human spaceflight.

Posted September 15, 2025

Blogs

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4649-4654: Ridges, Hollows and Nodules, Oh My

Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS Team Member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 Curiosity is in the midst of the boxwork campaign, trying to decipher why we see such pronounced ridges and hollows in this area of Mount Sharp. When this terrain was first identified from […]

Posted September 13, 2025