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International Space Station (ISS)
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured the start of this orbital sunrise on Aug. 15, 2024, while aboard the International Space Station. Crew members aboard the orbital lab have produced hundreds of thousands of images of the land, oceans, and atmosphere of Earth, and even of the Moon through Crew Earth Observations.
Posted August 22, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 2
Humans in Space
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
NASA rolled out a key piece of space flight hardware for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis campaign from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Wednesday, Aug. 21 for shipment to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cone-shaped launch vehicle stage adapter connects […]
Posted August 22, 2024
Earth Science
Introduction First as a bite, then a half Moon, until crescent-shaped shadows dance through the leaves and the temperature begins to drop – a total solar eclipse can be felt growing in the atmosphere. As the sky darkens in the few minutes before totality, the sounds of animals begin to dissipate along with the vibrancy […]
Posted August 22, 2024
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Stars
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A, located some 2.6 million light-years away. The relatively open distribution of stars in this diminutive galaxy allows light from distant background galaxies to shine through.
Posted August 22, 2024
Wallops Flight Facility
The NASA Aircraft Management Advisory Board (AMAB), which manages the agency’s aircraft fleet, has decided to relocate the agency’s P-3 aircraft at Wallops to Langley Research Center.
Posted August 22, 2024
Gateway Space Station
Artemis
Earth's Moon
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Gateway Program
Glenn Research Center
Johnson Space Center
Discover the cutting-edge technology powering Gateway, humanity's first lunar space station.
Posted August 22, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Hundreds Honored at Marshall, NASA Awards Ceremony NASA Chief Financial Officer Margaret Vo Schaus speaks to audience members and honorees Aug. 15 during the 2023 Agency/Center Honor Awards at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Activities Building 4316.
Posted August 21, 2024
General
Get Involved
Opportunities to Contribute to NASA Missions & Get Involved
In-space propulsion systems utilizing cryogenic liquids as propellants are necessary to achieve NASA’s exploration missions to the Moon, and later to Mars. In current state of the art (SOA) human scale, in-space propulsion vehicles, cryogenic liquids can be stored for several hours.
Posted August 21, 2024
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
NASA’s DART (Double​ Asteroid Redirection Test) mission continues to yield scientific discoveries and garner accolades for its groundbreaking achievements.
Posted August 21, 2024
General
High-Tech Computing
Technology
Copernicus, a generalized spacecraft trajectory design and optimization system, is capable of solving a wide range of trajectory problems such as planet or moon centered trajectories, libration point trajectories, planet-moon transfers and tours, and all types of interplanetary and asteroid/comet missions.
Posted August 21, 2024
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