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Mars
Spirit (Rover)
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars 20 years ago. In this image, the bluish glow in the sky above the Sun would be visible to us if we were there, but an artifact of the panoramic camera’s infrared imaging capabilities […]
Posted May 20, 2025
Commercial Resupply
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
SpaceX Commercial Resupply
Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on May 22, 2025, as NASA and SpaceX are standing down from Thursday’s undocking opportunity of Dragon. NASA will provide additional information on the next undocking opportunity as available.
Posted May 20, 2025
Johnson Space Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Four NASA astronauts will participate in a welcome home ceremony at Space Center Houston after recently returning from missions aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit will share highlights from their missions at 6 p.m.
Posted May 20, 2025
Biological & Physical Sciences
International Space Station (ISS)
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
NASA is demonstrating new microgravity fluids technologies to enable advanced “no-moving-parts” plant-watering methods aboard spacecraft. Crop production in microgravity will be important to provide whole food nutrition, dietary variety, and psychological benefits to astronauts exploring deep space.
Posted May 20, 2025
For Kids and Students
Explore
Grades 5 - 8
This article is for students grades 5-8. The International Space Station is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live. The space station is also a unique science laboratory. Several nations worked together to build and use the space station. The space station is made […]
Posted May 20, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Astromaterials
People of Johnson
Science & Research
When future astronauts set foot on Mars, they will stand on decades of scientific groundwork laid by people like Andrea Harrington.   As NASA’s sample return curation integration lead, Harrington is helping shape the future of planetary exploration and paving the way for interplanetary discovery.   Harrington works in NASA’s Astromaterials Research
Posted May 20, 2025
Blogs
Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Today we came into another strange and interesting workspace (see image above) that is as exciting as the one we had on Monday. This is our first arrival at a potential boxwork structure — a series […]
Posted May 19, 2025
Perseverance (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Scientists expect the new area of interest on the lower slope of Jezero Crater’s rim to offer up some of the oldest rocks on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is exploring a new region of interest the team is calling “Krokodillen” that may contain some of the oldest rocks on Mars. The area […]
Posted May 19, 2025
This artist’s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in systems around stars.
Posted May 19, 2025
Stennis Space Center
The numbers are notable – 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 3,244 individual tests, more than 820,000 seconds (totaling more than nine days) of cumulative hot fire. The story behind the numbers is unforgettable. “It is hard to describe the full impact of […]
Posted May 19, 2025
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