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NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Shared Services Center
NASA has selected CACI, Inc. of Chantilly, Virginia, to maintain and improve IT services across the agency. The NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services (NCAPS) award is a hybrid firm-fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity provision and a maximum potential value of about $2 billion.
Posted June 10, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Stars
The Universe
Astronomers have used new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the retired SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) as well as archival data from other missions to revisit one of the strangest binary star systems in our galaxy – 40 years after it burst onto the scene as a bright and long-lived nova. A nova is a star […]
Posted June 10, 2024
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Missions
Origin & Evolution of the Universe
Science & Research
The Universe
Peering deeply into the cosmos, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving scientists their first detailed glimpse of supernovae from a time when our universe was just a small fraction of its current age. A team using Webb data has identified 10 times more supernovae in the early universe than were previously known. A few […]
Posted June 10, 2024
Spinoffs
Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
System created for Apollo astronaut food has become the global standard for hazard prevention
Posted June 10, 2024
Apollo 8
William A. Anders
NASA astronaut Bill Anders took this iconic image of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon on Dec. 24, 1968. Anders, lunar module pilot on the Apollo 8 mission, and fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell became the first humans to orbit the Moon and the first to witness the sight pictured. After becoming a […]
Posted June 10, 2024
“I feel that my larger purpose at NASA, which I’ve felt since I came on as an intern, is to leave NASA a better place than I found it. I know there are so many people who are just like myself, who have had this big, huge dream of being at NASA from some sort […]
Posted June 10, 2024
Mars
Curiosity (Rover)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
In addition to producing auroras, a recent extreme storm provided more detail on how much radiation future astronauts could encounter on the Red Planet. Mars scientists have been anticipating epic solar storms ever since the Sun entered a period of peak activity earlier this year called solar maximum. Over the past month, NASA’s Mars rovers […]
Posted June 10, 2024
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Heliophysics & Planetary Science
Dennis Gallagher (ST13) was interviewed by Senior Editor Terri Robertson with Country Living on 3/14/24. Questions included what is thought to cause them, how can you increase you chance of seeing them, and why is it easier to see them on a light-colored surface?
Posted June 10, 2024
General
Adam Kobelski (ST13) gave a presentation at the National Space Club Monthly Breakfast at the Jackson Center in Huntsville. The talk discussed preparing for the April 2024 Solar Eclipse and the Heliophysics research done at MSFC. Approximately 300 industry and academia stakeholders were in attendance.
Posted June 10, 2024
Artemis
Gateway Program
Gateway Space Station
Johnson Space Center
One of Gateway space station's foundational modules, HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost), is closer to launch after completing a major milestone.
Posted June 10, 2024
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