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Astronaut Eileen Collins, NASA’s First Female Shuttle Commander

Astronaut Eileen Collins, STS-93 commander, looks through a checklist on the space shuttle Columbia’s middeck in this July 1999 image. Collins was the first female shuttle commander. Collins graduated in 1979 from Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, where she was a T-38 instructor pilot until 1982.

Posted July 23, 2024

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

General

Marshall Space Flight Center

25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity

By Rick Smith “The art of aerospace engineering is a matter of seeing around corners,” said NASA thermal analyst Jodi Turk. In the case of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, marking its 25th anniversary in space this year, some of those corners proved to be as far as 80,000 miles away and a quarter-century in the […]

Posted July 23, 2024

Aeronautics

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Flight Innovation

Green Aviation Tech

NASA Aircraft

Sustainable Flight Demonstrator

Boneyard Airplane Sees New Life as a NASA X-66 Simulator

NASA’s X-66 aircraft, the centerpiece of its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, is taking the term “sustainable” to heart by reusing an old MD-90 cockpit as a base for its new X-66 simulator. When airplanes are retired, they often wind up in “boneyards” — storage fields where they spend years being picked over for parts by […]

Posted July 23, 2024

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch for U.S. Navy Fleet Training

A rocket-propelled target is scheduled for launch July 27-28, 2024 from NASA’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in support of a U.S. Navy Fleet Training exercise. No real-time launch status updates will be available. The launch will not be livestreamed nor will launch status updates be provided during the countdown. The […]

Posted July 23, 2024

Climate Change

Earth

Earth's Atmosphere

Greenhouse Gases

Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth’s Atmosphere

What we’re looking at This global map shows concentrations of carbon dioxide as the gas moved through Earth’s atmosphere from January through March 2020, driven by wind patterns and atmospheric circulation. Because of the model’s high resolution, you can zoom in and see carbon dioxide emissions rising from power plants, fires, and cities, then spr

Posted July 23, 2024

ISS Research

Commercial Resupply

Expedition 71

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply

NASA’s 21st Northrop Grumman Mission Launches Scientific Studies to Station

NASA and its international partners are sending scientific investigations to the International Space Station on Northrop Grumman’s 21st commercial resupply services mission.

Posted July 23, 2024

Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)

Joint Agency Satellite Division

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for NOAA’s JPSS-4 Mission

NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) to provide launch services for NOAA’s JPSS-4 mission. The spacecraft is part of the multi-satellite cooperative Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program, a partnership between NASA and NOAA.

Posted July 23, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

NASA Centers & Facilities

Science & Research

Uncategorized

NASA Rocket Discovers New Energization Process in Upper Atmosphere

When it comes to discoveries about our upper atmosphere, it pays to know your surroundings. Using data from the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) rocket launch, NASA scientist Francesca Di Mare and Gregory Howes from the University of Iowa studied waves traveling down Earth’s magnetic field lines into the polar atmosphere.

Posted July 22, 2024

Chandra Sees the Peacock’s Galaxy

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory launch, the Chandra team released this never-seen-before image of NGC 6872, a spiral galaxy in the Pavo (Peacock) constellation, on July 22, 2024.

Posted July 22, 2024

Biological & Physical Sciences

Citizen Science

Space Biology

Seed Funding Proposals Due November 19 This Year!

Since 2020, NASA’s Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP) has launched 24 new projects to expand citizen science in professional research. This year, proposals are due by November 19, 2024, with optional Notices of Intent by October 1, 2024. The planning start date is May 1, 2025.

Posted July 22, 2024