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NASA Hosts Unveiling of Plans for New Silicon Valley Innovation Hub

A new campus, called Berkeley Space Center, aims to offer lab, office, and educational spaces along with student and faculty housing, a conference center, and retail space on 36 acres within the NASA Research Park at the agency’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

Posted October 16, 2023

Kennedy Space Center

Psyche Mission

Launching to a Metal-Rich Asteroid

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This image captures the beginning of the spacecraft’s journey to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name. The body of the Psyche spacecraft is about the size of a small van, and it’s […]

Posted October 16, 2023

Flight Opportunities Program

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Prizes, Challenges & Crowdsourcing

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Seeks Development of Universal Payload Interface

NASA is calling on innovators to help solve some of the challenges in rapidly testing technology payloads across a wide range of commercial flight vehicles and test environments. As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, the agency is making increased use of commercial suborbital vehicles, spacecraft, and lunar landers to help advance new […]

Posted October 16, 2023

NASA History

40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Discovery Makes its Public Debut

On Oct. 16, 1983, NASA’s newest space shuttle, Discovery, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California. Under construction for three years, Discovery joined NASA’s other two space-worthy orbiters, Columbia and Challenger, and atmospheric test vehicle Enterprise.

Posted October 16, 2023

White Sands Test Facility

PROPULSION TEST AREA

From the Apollo rocket engine testing of the 1960s to the spacecraft propulsion systems of today, our site has developed unique facilities to meet the testing needs for testing rocket propulsion systems.

Posted October 16, 2023

Glenn Research Center

AeroSpace Frontiers

Artemis

Space Shuttle

Dr. Guy Bluford Reflects on 40th Anniversary of Historic Shuttle Flight

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger’s STS-8 mission, former astronaut Dr. Guion “Guy” Bluford, the first African American to fly in space, discussed his historic flight at Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland on Aug.

Posted October 16, 2023

Glenn Research Center

AeroSpace Frontiers

Glenn “Stars” Showcase Research and Technology

NASA’s Glenn Research Center’s “An Evening With the Stars,” held Aug.

Posted October 16, 2023

AeroSpace Frontiers

General

Glenn Research Center

October Retirements

Mark Hyatt Mark David KanKam

Posted October 16, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Exoplanet Atmosphere

Exoplanet Science

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Studying Exoplanets

Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in the Clouds of a Hot Gas Giant

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected evidence for quartz nanocrystals in the high-altitude clouds of WASP-17 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet 1,300 light-years from Earth.

Posted October 16, 2023

White Sands Test Facility

COPV Standards

Through collaboration with other government agencies, U.S. national consensus organizations, and international governments, our engineers have developed nondestructive evaluation (NDE) standards for composites through ASTM International.

Posted October 16, 2023