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25 Images to Celebrate NASA’s Chandra 25th Anniversary

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its launch, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is releasing 25 never-before-seen views of a wide range of cosmic objects. These images, which all include data from Chandra, demonstrate how X-ray astronomy explores all corners of the universe.

Posted July 22, 2024

Artemis

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Goddard Space Flight Center

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Space Communications Technology

Ground Antenna Trio to Give NASA’s Artemis Campaign ‘LEGS’ to Stand On

Background NASA’s LEGS can do more than help Earthlings move about the planet. Three Lunar Exploration Ground Sites, or LEGS, will enhance the Near Space Network’s communications services and support of NASA’s Artemis campaign.

Posted July 22, 2024

Eileen M. Collins

Former Astronauts

NASA History

STS-93

Women at NASA

Women's History Month

Eileen Collins Broke Barriers as America’s First Female Space Shuttle Commander

At the end of February 1998, Johnson Space Center Deputy Director James D. Wetherbee called Astronaut Eileen Collins to his office in Building 1. He told her she had been assigned to command STS-93 and went with her to speak with Center Director George W.S. Abbey who informed her that she would be going to […]

Posted July 22, 2024

Humans in Space

HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog)

Human Research Program

NASA Research Volunteers to Begin Next Simulated Mission to Mars

NASA selected a new team of four research volunteers to participate in a simulated mission to Mars within HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Erin Anderson, Sergii Iakymov, Brandon Kent, and Sarah Elizabeth McCandless will begin their simulated trek to Mars on Friday, Aug. 9.

Posted July 22, 2024

Aeronautics

NASA to Host Panels, Forums, and More at Oshkosh 2024

Each summer, aviation enthusiasts and experts from around the planet – including NASA’s aeronautical innovators – descend into a regional airport near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to attend the Experimental Aviation Association’s AirVenture Oshkosh.

Posted July 19, 2024

Humans in Space

Advanced Space Suits

Artemis

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Johnson Space Center

Spacesuits

xEVA & Human Surface Mobility

Exploring the Moon: Episode Previews

Discover. Learn. Explore. NASA’s video series, Exploring the Moon, takes a “behind-the-scenes” look at humanity’s next steps on the Moon. Here is your first look at some of the key moments from the upcoming series! Scroll down or navigate through CONTENTS, to the side, to explore! Watch the Series Trailer Now! Who, What, When, Where, […]

Posted July 19, 2024

Artemis

I Am Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

Michoud Assembly Facility

People of Marshall

People of NASA

Space Launch System (SLS)

I am Artemis: John Campbell

How do you move NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s massive 212-foot-long core stage across the country? You do it with a 300-foot-long barge. However, NASA’s Pegasus barge isn’t just any barge. It’s a vessel with a history, and John Campbell, a logistics engineer for the agency based at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in […]

Posted July 19, 2024

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Juno

Jupiter

NASA’s Juno Mission Captures the Colorful and Chaotic Clouds of Jupiter

During its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the giant planet’s northern hemisphere. It provides a detailed view of chaotic clouds and cyclonic storms in an area known to scientists as a folded filamentary region. In these regions, the zonal jets that create the […]

Posted July 19, 2024

Apollo 11

Buzz Aldrin

Earth's Moon

Explorers on the Moon: Apollo 11 Landing

On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon in the lunar module “Eagle.” Afterward, Aldrin posed for this photo, taken by Armstrong, beside the United States flag. The Apollo 11 mission’s main goal was to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. The crew also conducted scientific […]

Posted July 19, 2024

Earth Science

Earth

Earth Science Division

Earth's Moon

GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment)

GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA-Funded Studies Explain How Climate Is Changing Earth’s Rotation

Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days. Days on Earth are growing slightly longer, and that change is accelerating. The reason is connected to the same mechanisms that also have caused the planet’s axis to […]

Posted July 19, 2024