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Kennedy Space Center
Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
Jennifer Kunz, associate director technical of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, released the following statement after speaking Thursday at the SpaceCom / 50th Space Congress in Orlando, Florida.
Posted February 1, 2024
Stennis Space Center
Explore the February 2024 edition featuring: Gator Speaks There are two reasons why the last Thursday in January and the month of February are important at NASA moving ahead as the Artemis Generation. Having been around for decades as the NASA Stennis mascot, it is easy to forget important things if you are not intentional […]
Posted February 1, 2024
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch to the Moon’s South Polar region, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative. This mission is part of CLPS’ ongoing effort to bring down the cost for science investigations and technology demonstrations going to the Moon and to make them more routine […]
Posted February 1, 2024
ISS Research
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Johnson Space Center
Long-term space exploration exposes humans to radiation that can damage deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA, which carries the genetic information for our development and functioning. Conditions in space also affect the way the body repairs such damage, potentially compounding the risk.
Posted February 1, 2024
Stennis Space Center
As NASA innovates for the benefit of all, what the agency develops for exploration has the potential to evolve into other technologies with broader use here on Earth.
Posted February 1, 2024
Stennis Space Center
NASA inspires as it explores secrets of the universe for the benefit of all – just ask Tony Goretski, the senior employee in the Office of Procurement at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Goretski felt the inspiration long ago on a school trip to the Gulf Coast site, vowing to one […]
Posted February 1, 2024
NASA History
In honor of Black History Month, we recognize the contributions of Black astronauts to our nation’s space programs.
Posted February 1, 2024
Stennis Space Center
One thing has remained constant throughout Maury Vander’s career with NASA – the satisfaction of being part of a team working to innovate and benefit the agency and the aerospace industry at large. As chief of the Test Operations Division at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, Vander provides guidance and help with technical challenges to a […]
Posted February 1, 2024
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
UGC 3912 is classified as a spiral galaxy … but you wouldn’t know it from this detailed NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. UGC 3912’s distorted shape is typically indicative of a gravitational encounter with another galaxy. When galaxies interact – either brush up against each other’s gravitational fields or even collide – their stars, dust, […]
Posted February 1, 2024
Night Sky Network
Some constellations can be as familiar as old friends. Learn about three of them in February’s Night Sky Notes!
Posted February 1, 2024
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