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A trio of astronauts visited with employees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on March 18, 2024, to share their spaceflight experiences aboard the International Space Station.

Posted March 19, 2024

Water on Earth

Earth

GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment)

GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

US, Germany Partnering on Mission to Track Earth’s Water Movement

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Continuity mission will extend a decades-long record of following shifting water masses using gravity measurements.

Posted March 19, 2024

Apollo 10

Former Astronauts

Gemini IX

Gemini VI

Thomas P. Stafford

Walter M. Schirra Jr.

Gemini VI Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Walter M. Schirra Jr.

Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (left), and Walter M. Schirra Jr., pose for the camera during suiting up exercises on Oct. 22, 1965. Stafford was selected among the second group of astronauts in September 1962 by NASA to participate in Projects Gemini and Apollo. In December 1965, he piloted Gemini VI, which made the first rendezvous […]

Posted March 19, 2024

DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)

Asteroids

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Modeling

Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)

Planetary Defense

Planetary Defense Coordination Office

NASA Study: Asteroid’s Orbit, Shape Changed After DART Impact

After NASA’s historic Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a JPL-led study has shown that the shape of asteroid Dimorphos has changed and its orbit has shrunk. When NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) deliberately smashed into a 560-foot-wide (170-meter-wide) asteroid on Sept. 26, 2022, it made its mark in more ways than one.

Posted March 19, 2024

International Space Station (ISS)

NASA Administrator, Health Secretary to Host Cancer Moonshot Event

Media are invited to join NASA and Department of Health and Human Services leadership at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, to highlight how the agencies are making progress toward President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative.

Posted March 19, 2024

STEM Engagement at NASA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Student-Built Robots Clash at Competition Supported by NASA-JPL

Hand-crafted robots, constructed over the past two months by 44 high school teams, duked it out at the FIRST Robotics Los Angeles regional competition. Student-made contraptions of a metal and a little magic battled each other in front of cheering and dancing high schoolers at the annual Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition over the […]

Posted March 18, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

NASA’s Swift Temporarily Suspends Science Operations

On March 15, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory entered into safe mode, temporarily suspending science operations due to degrading performance from one of its three gyroscopes (gyros), which are used to point the observatory for making observations. The rest of the spacecraft remains in good health.

Posted March 18, 2024

Thomas P. Stafford

Astronauts

Former Astronauts

Humans in Space

NASA Administrator Pays Tribute to Space Pioneer Thomas Stafford

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday’s passing of Thomas Stafford, a lifelong space exploration advocate, former NASA astronaut, and U.S.

Posted March 18, 2024

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Wallops Supports Rocket Lab Launch for NRO From Virginia

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia will support commercial launch provider Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launch no earlier than March 21 at 2:40 a.m. EDT. The four-hour launch window runs through 6:30 a.m. The mission, named NROL-123, is a dedicated launch for NRO (National Reconnaissance Office).

Posted March 18, 2024

General

Learning Resources

NASA Challenge Invites Artemis Generation Coders to Johnson Space Center

NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement has selected seven student teams to participate in a culminating event for the 2024 App Development Challenge (ADC), one of the agency’s Artemis Student Challenges, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Posted March 18, 2024