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Commercial Crew
Commercial Space
NASA Aircraft
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA’s C-130 Hercules, managed at Wallops Flight Facility’s Aircraft Office in Virginia, provided aerial delivery support for a successful commercial crew parachute airdrop test Jan. 9 at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.
Posted January 12, 2024
NASA Headquarters
Climate Change
Earth
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Read this release in English here. En el año 2023, la temperatura promedio de la superficie de la Tierra fue la más cálida que se haya registrado, según un análisis de la NASA. Las temperaturas globales del año pasado estuvieron alrededor de 1,2 grados Celsius (2,1 grados Fahrenheit) por encima del promedio para el período de […]
Posted January 12, 2024
Glenn Research Center
2024 Solar Eclipse
Solar Eclipses
At NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, we pride ourselves on making the seemingly impossible, possible. From creating more fuel-efficient jet engines and exploring advances in air mobility, to enhancing radio frequency and optical communications technology, Glenn plays an important role in many of NASA’s most prestigious missions.
Posted January 12, 2024
Earth
Climate Change
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Earth’s average surface temperature in 2023 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA.
Posted January 12, 2024
Landsat 9
The Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 captured this image of Simsbury, Connecticut on September 15, 2022. Martin Luther King Jr. and other students from Morehouse College worked summers on a tobacco farm, Meadowood, in Simsbury in 1944 and 1947 to earn money for tuition.
Posted January 12, 2024
Astrophysics
Citizen Science
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) met in New Orleans this week, attended by thousands of astronomers and reporters, and NASA volunteers were in the spotlight. Wow! Big congratulations to everyone involved!
Posted January 12, 2024
NASA History
In space since their launch on Nov. 16, 1973, Skylab 4 astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue began the new year of 1974 roughly halfway through their planned 84-day mission. By the end of January, the three rookies held the records for the longest single space flight and the most […]
Posted January 11, 2024
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
NASA Headquarters
NASA will host a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 17, to discuss the upcoming launch and science objectives of the agency’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission. Once in orbit above Earth, the satellite will shed light on the impact of tiny things – microscopic life in water and microscopic particles […]
Posted January 11, 2024
Earth
Earth Science
Earth's Atmosphere
Oceans
Earth’s oceans and atmosphere are changing as the planet warms. Some ocean waters become greener as more microscopic organisms bloom. In the atmosphere, dust storms born on one continent affect the air quality of another, while smoke from massive wildfires can blanket entire regions for days.
Posted January 11, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Cryogenic Fluid Management (CFM)
Marshall Space Flight Center
Moons
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Tech Demo Missions
Technology Demonstration
Establishing sustained operations at the Moon and Mars presents a multitude of opportunities and challenges NASA has yet to encounter. Many of these activities require new technologies and processes to ensure the agency is prepared for its ambitious Artemis missions and those beyond.
Posted January 11, 2024
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