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International Space Station (ISS)
Commercial Resupply
CubeSat Launch Initiative
CubeSats
ISS Research
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply
Small Satellite Missions
Following a successful launch of NASA’s Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound for the International Space Station. Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, carrying more than 8,200 pounds of supplies to the orbiting laboratory, lifted off at 11:02 a.m.
Posted August 5, 2024
Johnson Space Center
Events
General
NASA Centers & Facilities
On the eve of the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston commemorated the unsung heroes who helped make humanity’s first steps on the Moon possible.  To celebrate their enduring legacy, Johnson named one of its central buildings the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of […]
Posted August 2, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 2
Kennedy Space Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
Teams transport NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) core stage into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 24, 2024.
Posted August 2, 2024
People of Goddard
Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA en español
People of NASA
Dr. Ariadna Farrés-Basiana would look up at the sky and marvel at the immensity of space when she was younger. Now, the bounds are limitless as she helps NASA explore the expansive universe by computing the trajectories and maneuvers to get a spacecraft into space. Name: Dr.
Posted August 2, 2024
NASA History
Each Aug. 4, Coast Guard Day commemorates the founding on Aug. 4, 1790, of the U.S. Coast Guard as the Revenue-Marine by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Although considered an internal event for active duty and reserve Coast Guard members, we take the opportunity of Coast Guard Day to honor the astronauts who began […]
Posted August 2, 2024
General
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
High-Tech Computing
NASA Centers & Facilities
Technology
Under a new agreement, NASA will host supercomputing resources for the University of California, Berkeley, at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
Posted August 2, 2024
NASA History
Discovery Program
MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging)
The excerpts below are taken from Discovery Program oral history interviews conducted in 2009 by Dr.
Posted August 2, 2024
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Centennial Challenges
Centennial Challenges News
Earth's Moon
Mars
Marshall Space Flight Center
Prizes, Challenges & Crowdsourcing News
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA invites the media and public to explore the nexus of space and food innovation at the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge symposium and winners’ announcement at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, Aug. 16.  In 2019, NASA and the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) started the Deep Space Food […]
Posted August 2, 2024
Astrobiology
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Search for Life
The Universe
One of NASA’s key priorities is understanding the potential for life elsewhere in the universe. NASA has not found any credible evidence of extraterrestrial life — but NASA is exploring the solar system and beyond to help us answer fundamental questions, including whether we are alone in the universe. For those who study the potential […]
Posted August 2, 2024
“When I was around 16 or 17, I came across this book by Arthur C. Clarke called Space Odyssey 2001. That was actually the first science fiction book that I’ve ever read. I was just so captured by what he had written because the things that he wrote about weren’t [happening] in the far-off future, […]
Posted August 2, 2024
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