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NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy conducted the first bilateral meeting on Monday with Dr. Young-bin Yoon, administrator of the newly established KASA (Korea AeroSpace Administration), which opened on May 27. The creation of KASA underscores the Republic of Korea’s commitment to advancing space exploration.
Posted July 17, 2024
Space Launch System (SLS)
Artemis
Artemis 2
Common Exploration Systems Development Division
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Marshall Space Flight Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
Stennis Space Center
NASA rolled out the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s core stage for the Artemis II test flight from its manufacturing facility in New Orleans on Tuesday for shipment to the agency’s spaceport in Florida. The rollout is key progress on the path to NASA’s first crewed mission to the Moon under the Artemis campaign. Using […]
Posted July 17, 2024
Aura
Earth
Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)
A few of the many highlights from the last 20 years since Aura Launched.
Posted July 16, 2024
Apollo 11
Kennedy Space Center
55 years ago on July 16, 1969, NASA’s Apollo 11 spacecraft launched from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as seen in this photo. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin were aboard. Apollo 11’s primary mission objective was to fulfill a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, […]
Posted July 16, 2024
Missions
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
NASA is planning for the future in low Earth orbit for science, research, and commercial opportunities as the agency and its international partners maximize the use of the International Space Station. As the agency fosters new commercial space stations, leadership from NASA and SpaceX will participate in a media teleconference at 2 p.m.
Posted July 16, 2024
General
Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
NASA is turning to the 3D modeling experts in the community for ideas and designs to use or enhance the current state of modular robotic construction techniques. Robotic building of structures in space is an active area of research for NASA and might prove to be a path towards sustainable and scalable space exploration. This […]
Posted July 16, 2024
Blogs
Earth planning date: Friday, July 12, 2024 Curiosity, now heading uphill from the Mammoth Lakes drill site, has focused on a very interesting exposure of conglomerate rocks, consisting of pebbles cemented together by a fine-grained matrix material.
Posted July 16, 2024
Perseverance (Rover)
Astrobiology
High-Tech Computing
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS)
Robotics
Science-enabling Technology
Artificial intelligence is helping scientists to identify minerals within rocks studied by the Perseverance rover. Some scientists dream of exploring planets with “smart” spacecraft that know exactly what data to look for, where to find it, and how to analyze it.
Posted July 16, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Tuesday Dr. Kurt Vogel, associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), is retiring from the agency.
Posted July 16, 2024
People of NASA
Careers
Goddard Space Flight Center
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
People of Goddard
Women at NASA
Rebekah Hounsell is an assistant research scientist working on ways to optimize and build infrastructure for future observations made by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The mission will shed light on many astrophysics topics, like dark energy, which are currently shrouded in mystery.
Posted July 16, 2024
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