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Environmental Management Division (EMD)
General
In OSI’s Environmental Management Division, we believe every day is Earth Day as we enable environmentally sound mission success through leadership of NASA efforts to comply with environmental laws and advance stewardship and sustainability.
Posted May 31, 2024
Organizations
Office of the General Counsel (OGC)
General Counsel Iris Lan Deputy General Counsel Christine Pham (Acting) Director of Legal Operations Bryan R.
Posted May 31, 2024
“[My proudest moment] was deciding post-college what to do [in my life] and not asking for advice anymore. It’s one of those things where I love asking for advice but sometimes almost too much where I feel like it over influences what I want to do. And in my career, it was the same way. […]
Posted May 31, 2024
Europa
Europa Clipper
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter Moons
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Crews rotated to vertical then lifted NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft from its protective shipping container after it arrived at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 28.
Posted May 31, 2024
Earth
Earth Observatory
Hurricanes & Typhoons
International Space Station (ISS)
Natural Disasters
June 1 marks the beginning of the 2024 hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean. NASA observes and studies hurricanes from space, both with views from the space station and with satellites.
Posted May 31, 2024
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Space technology might look a bit different decades from now. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program studies innovative, technically credible, advanced projects that could one day “change the possible” in aerospace.
Posted May 31, 2024
Earth
Airborne Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Ice & Glaciers
Langley Research Center
Sea Ice
Wallops Flight Facility
It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the bumps and dips on the ice itself can play a role. To explore how these factors interact and impact sea ice melting, NASA is flying two aircraft equipped with scientific instruments over the Arctic Ocean […]
Posted May 31, 2024
ISS Research
Biological & Physical Sciences
Cell and Molecular Biology
General
Human Research Program
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Johnson Space Center
Microbiology
Science & Research
Space, the saying goes, is hard. And the farther humans go, the harder it can get. Some of the challenges on missions to explore the Moon and Mars include preventing microbial contamination of these destinations, navigating there safely, protecting crew members and hardware from radiation, and maintaining and repairing equipment.
Posted May 31, 2024
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the broad and sweeping spiral galaxy NGC 4731. It lies in the constellation Virgo and is located 43 million light-years from Earth. This highly detailed image uses data collected from six different filters. The abundance of color illustrates the galaxy’s billowing clouds of gas, dark […]
Posted May 31, 2024
Night Sky Network
In the final Circumpolar Constellations installment, learn about objects in Cepheus, Draco, and Ursa Major, and how to find them in June’s Night Sky Notes!
Posted May 31, 2024
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