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Stennis Space Center
For Lee English Jr., the sound of a ringing phone probably sounds a lot like the roar of a rocket engine test at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. During the 1970s, when 9-year-old English Jr. picked up the ringing phone, someone from the south Mississippi test site might say, “Tell your […]
Posted May 29, 2024
Blogs
Earth planning date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 For the last several months, Curiosity has been steadily climbing through the bedrock layers of the upper sulfate unit. While each stop had its own collection of bedrock blocks tilting one way or another, you could imagine putting each scene back together into one coherent package of layers, […]
Posted May 29, 2024
Spinoffs
Langley Research Center
Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
NASA-supported wireless microphone array quickly, cheaply, and accurately maps noise from aircraft, animals, and more.
Posted May 29, 2024
Earth's Moon
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lunar Science
Mars
Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics
Planetary Science
Science Instruments
The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASA’s Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a thousand Red Planet quakes. The most sensitive instrument ever built to measure quakes and meteor strikes on other worlds is getting closer to its journey to the mysterious far side of the Moon. It’s one […]
Posted May 29, 2024
Apollo 10
Eugene A. Cernan
John W. Young
Thomas P. Stafford
Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 10 mission, exits the spacecraft during recovery operations on May 26, 1969. He and the other two crew members already in the raft, Thomas P. Stafford (left) and John W. Young, were brought to the prime recovery ship, USS Princeton after splashdown. The Apollo 10 […]
Posted May 28, 2024
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Allison Mills, Earth Science Information Partners, allisonmills@esipfed.orgSusan Shingledecker, Earth Science Information Partners, susanshingledecker@esipfed.org Introduction In 2023, the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) community celebr
Posted May 28, 2024
Exoplanet Detection Methods
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanet Transits
Exoplanets
Radial Velocity
Super-Earth Exoplanets
The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the “Star Trek” universe – is really a kind of astronomical illusion caused by the pulses and jitters of the star itself, a new study shows. Key facts The possible detection of a […]
Posted May 28, 2024
Astrophysics
Citizen Science
Exoplanets
The Universe
Exoplanets, planets outside of our own solar system, hold the keys to finding extraterrestrial life and understanding the origin of our own world.
Posted May 28, 2024
Missions
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 88 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 5:43 a.m. EDT (2:43 p.m. Baikonur time) Thursday, May 30, on a Soyuz […]
Posted May 28, 2024
Apophis
Asteroids
Missions
OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Apophis Explorer)
The Solar System
Uncategorized
Mission engineers were confident NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification – Apophis Explorer) spacecraft could weather its closest ever pass of the Sun on Jan. 2, 2024.
Posted May 28, 2024
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