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During the close approach of 2008 OS7 with Earth on Feb. 2, the agency’s Deep Space Network planetary radar gathered the first detailed images of the stadium-size asteroid. On Feb. 2, a large asteroid safely drifted past Earth at a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers, or 7 ½ times the distance […]

Posted February 26, 2024

NASA Headquarters

International Space Station (ISS)

NASA Names New Station Manager, Space Operations Deputy

NASA has selected Dana Weigel as the International Space Station Program manager, based at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Weigel succeeds Joel Montalbano, who has accepted a position as deputy associate administrator for the agency’s Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Posted February 26, 2024

Artemis

Artemis 2

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

NASA, Partners Test Artemis II Recovery Procedures

Members of NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team work to secure the Crew Module Test Article and align it on its stand inside the ship’s well deck in this image from Feb. 22, 2024. Underway Recovery Test 11 is the eleventh in a series of Artemis recovery tests, and the first time NASA […]

Posted February 26, 2024

Scientific Balloons

Astrophysics Explorers Program

GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory)

Wallops Flight Facility

GUSTO Breaks NASA Scientific Balloon Record for Days in Flight

Editor’s note: This story was updated to state that the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs oversees the U.S.

Posted February 26, 2024

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s LRO Images Intuitive Machine’s Odysseus Lander

On Feb. 22, Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, called Odysseus, completed a seven-day journey to lunar orbit and softly landed near crater Malapert A in the South Pole region of the Moon at 6:24 p.m. EST. On Feb. 24, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft passed over the landing site at an altitude of about 56 miles […]

Posted February 26, 2024

Missions

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Tech Contributes to Soft Moon Landing, Agency Science Underway

Editor’s note: This release was updated Feb. 23, 2024, to add an image from the news conference and participant titles.

Posted February 24, 2024

Hubble Views an Active Star-Forming Galaxy

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that lies about 54 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. While this image does not look very dramatic – we might say it looks almost serene – the actual physical events taking place in IC 3476 are highly energetic.

Posted February 23, 2024

General

White Papers

White Paper, “Space Data Ethics: The Next Frontier in Responsible Leadership” White Paper, “Space Data Ethics: The Next Frontier in Responsible Leadership,” prepared by the Climate and Societal Benefits Subcommittee.

Posted February 23, 2024

Humans in Space

Astronauts

Commercial Crew

Commercial Space

Commercial Space Programs

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

Jeanette J. Epps

Matthew Dominick

NASA Headquarters

NASA Sets Coverage for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launch, Docking

Editor’s note: This advisory was updated Feb. 25, 2024, with a new time for the Flight Readiness Review media teleconference NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission with astronauts to the International Space Station. The launch is targeted for 12:04 a.m.

Posted February 23, 2024

Missions

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

NASA, Intuitive Machines to Discuss Historic Moon Mission Today

NASA and Intuitive Machines will host a televised news conference at 5 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 23, to detail the Odysseus lander’s historic soft Moon landing.

Posted February 23, 2024