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NASA Glenn Kicks Off Ohio Space Forum

NASA’s Glenn Research Center kicked off the Ohio Space Forum with a tour of several research facilities at its Cleveland location on April 29. The annual two-day forum brings together federal, military, industry, and academic leaders in space research, operations, intelligence, exploration, and defense.

Posted May 21, 2024

Glenn Research Center

AeroSpace Frontiers

General

NASA Glenn Research Highlighted in Tape Exhibit

Beginning May 24, Great Lakes Science Center, home of the NASA Glenn Visitor Center, will welcome guests aboard TapeScape: International Tape Station. The unique exhibit focuses on the dynamic intersection of materials science and the groundbreaking research at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

Posted May 21, 2024

Glenn Research Center

AeroSpace Frontiers

Team NEO Views NASA Glenn Properties for Lease

Representatives from Team NEO toured several facilities at NASA’s Glenn Research Center on April 24. Team NEO is the designated Northeast Ohio JobsOhio Network Partner that works to expand business, establish partnerships, and create jobs.

Posted May 21, 2024

Binary Stars

Exoplanet Science

Exoplanets

Neptune-Like Exoplanets

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

Discovery Alert: Mini-Neptune in Double Star System is a Planetary Puzzle

The Discovery A planet that could resemble a smaller version of our own Neptune orbits one of two Sun-like stars that also orbit each other. The planet dwells in the “habitable zone,” with a potentially moderate temperature, and poses a challenge to prevailing ideas of planet formation. Key Facts Astronomers once imagined that our solar […]

Posted May 21, 2024

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Exoplanet Science

Exoplanets

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Studying Exoplanets

NASA Tool Gets Ready to Image Faraway Planets

A technology demo on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help increase the variety of distant planets scientists can directly image. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help pave the way in the search for habitable worlds outside our solar system by testing new tools that block starlight, […]

Posted May 21, 2024

System-Wide Safety

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Airspace Operations and Safety Program

System-Wide Safety Collaborations

NASA’s System-Wide Safety (SWS) project identifies and addresses safety threats to improve the efficiency of flight and access to airspace.

Posted May 21, 2024

Stennis Space Center

Stennis Test Facility and Support Infrastructure

NASA Employs Innovative Approach for Key Test Infrastructure Upgrade

Crews are using an innovative engineering approach to implement an infrastructure upgrade to the test complex water system to help ensure the future of large propulsion testing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Posted May 21, 2024

Johnson Space Center

Astronauts

Expedition 70

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

Jasmin Moghbeli

Loral O'Hara

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

Welcome Back to Planet Earth, Expedition 70 Crew!

On May 16, 2024, a crowd of more than 500 people gathered at Space Center Houston’s IMAX theater for the Expedition 70 crew debrief and awards ceremony. Crew members from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 and Soyuz MS-24 missions shared reflections from their voyage aboard the International Space Station and bestowed well-deserved recognition upon Johnson Space

Posted May 21, 2024

NASA Headquarters

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO)

NASA Leaders to Host Agency Town Hall on Artificial Intelligence

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy are hosting an employee town hall at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 22, to discuss how the agency is using and developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to advance missions and research. The event will steam live on NASA+, NASA Television, and the agency’s website. The town […]

Posted May 21, 2024

Earth Science

Earth Science Technology Office

Science-enabling Technology

Technology

Technology Highlights

Wildfires

NASA “Wildfire Digital Twin” Pioneers New AI Models and Streaming Data Techniques for Forecasting Fire and Smoke

NASA’s “Wildfire Digital Twin” project will equip firefighters and wildfire managers with a superior tool for monitoring wildfires and predicting harmful air pollution events and help researchers observe global wildfire trends more precisely.

Posted May 21, 2024