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Artemis

NASA is preparing the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage that will help power the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis campaign for shipment. On July 6, NASA and Boeing, the core stage lead contractor, moved the Artemis II rocket stage to another part of the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The […]

Posted July 9, 2024

Missions

Commercial Crew

Commercial Space

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

NASA, Boeing Provide Next Update on Space Station Crew Flight Test

Leadership from NASA and Boeing will participate in a media briefing at 12:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 10, to discuss the agency’s Crew Flight Test at the International Space Station.

Posted July 9, 2024

Missions

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman’s 20th Cargo Space Station Departure

Northrop Grumman’s uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Friday, July 12, five and a half months after delivering more than 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA and its international partners.

Posted July 9, 2024

Kennedy Space Center

Space Shuttle

STS-65

30 Years Ago: STS-65 Lifts Off

The space shuttle Columbia launches from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 8, 1994. This was the second flight of International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2), carrying more than twice the number of experiments and facilities as IML-1. The crew split into two teams to perform around-the-clock research.

Posted July 8, 2024

Internships

Planetary Science

Science Activation

NASA’s Neurodiversity Network Interns Speak at National Space Development Conference

Two high school interns funded by NASA’s Neurodiversity Network (N3) presented their work from Summer 2023 at the recent National Space Society (NSS) International Space Development Conference (ISDC-2024), held in Los Angeles, CA (May 23-26, 2024). Both interns were mentored by Dr.

Posted July 8, 2024

General

Happy Birthday, Meatball! NASA’s Iconic Logo Turns 65

On July 15, 2024, NASA’s logo is turning 65. The iconic symbol, known affectionately as “the meatball,” was developed at NASA’s Lewis Research Center in Cleveland (now called NASA Glenn). Employee James Modarelli, who started his career at the center as an artist and technical illustrator, was its chief designer. The red, white, and blue […]

Posted July 8, 2024

CubeSat Launch Initiative

CubeSats

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Heliophysics Research Program

Science Mission Directorate

Small Satellite Missions

SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment)

NASA Mission to Study Mysteries in the Origin of Solar Radio Waves

NASA’s CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment, or CURIE, is scheduled to launch July 9, 2024, to investigate the unresolved origins of radio waves coming from the Sun.

Posted July 8, 2024

General

Humans in Space

NextSTEP Q: CIS Capability Studies III – Lunar User Terminals & Network Orchestration and Management System

Solicitation Number: NNH16ZCQ001K-1_Appendix-Q July 8, 2024 – Solicitation Released Solicitation Overview NASA’s long-term vision to provide for a resilient space and ground communications and navigation infrastructure in which space mission users can seamlessly “roam” between an array of space-based and ground-based networks has been bolstered by

Posted July 8, 2024

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

NASA’s Begoña Vila Awarded 2024 Galician Excellence Award

Begoña Vila, an instrument systems engineer from KBR who worked on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has been selected to receive the 2024 Galician Excellence Title in the Sciences and Medicine Category for her career and work on Webb.

Posted July 8, 2024

Blogs

Sols 4236-4238: One More Time… for Contact Science at Mammoth Lakes

Earth planning date: Friday, July 5, 2024 Curiosity will drive away from the Mammoth Lakes drill location on the second sol of this three-sol weekend plan, but before she does, the team will take the opportunity for one last chance at contact science in this interesting region of the Gediz Vallis deposit. The team have […]

Posted July 6, 2024