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NASA Awards Launch Excitement for STEM Learning Nationwide

NASA awards inspire the next generation of explorers by helping community institutions like museums, science centers, libraries, and other informal education institutions and their partners bring science, technology,

Posted July 19, 2024

Humans in Space

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NASA Sets Briefings for Crew-9 Mission to Space Station

NASA will host a pair of news conferences Friday, July 26, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. NASA will host a mission overview news conference at 12 p.m. EDT and provide coverage on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the […]

Posted July 19, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

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Hubble Space Telescope

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The Universe

Hubble Studies a Potential Galactic Merger

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 5238, located 14.5 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. Its unexciting, blob-like appearance seems to resemble an oversized star cluster more than a classic image of a galaxy.

Posted July 19, 2024

Artemis

Artemis 2

Humans in Space

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Michoud Assembly Facility

Space Launch System (SLS)

From One Crew to Another: Artemis II Astronauts Meet NASA Barge Crew

Members of the Artemis II crew met with the crew of NASA’s Pegasus barge prior to their departure to deliver the core stage of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to the Space Coast. NASA astronaut and pilot of the Artemis II mission Victor Glover met the crew July 15. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, commander, […]

Posted July 19, 2024

Blogs

Sols 4248-4249: Lunch at Fairview Dome

Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 We started our day at an outcrop called “Fairview Dome,” a light-colored rock so big that it can easily be seen from orbit! We have had our eye on Fairview Dome since Curiosity descended into the Gediz Vallis channel. As a geologist who has spent a lot of […]

Posted July 19, 2024

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NASA Space ROS Sim Summer Sprint Challenge

Space ROS is an open-source software framework, derived from ROS 2, which was created to be compatible with the demands of safety-critical space robotics applications. NASA is looking to expand the Space ROS repository with new higher fidelity demonstration environments and additional capabilities.

Posted July 18, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

Sounding Rockets

Sounding Rockets Program

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Sounding Rocket Launches, Studies Heating of Sun’s Active Regions

By Wayne Smith Investigators at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will use observations from a recently-launched sounding rocket mission to provide a clearer image of how and why the Sun’s corona grows so much hotter than the visible surface of Earth’s parent star. The MaGIXS-2 mission – short for the second flight […]

Posted July 18, 2024

Earth's Moon

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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

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Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

Science & Research

New Evidence Adds to Findings Hinting at Network of Caves on Moon

An international team of scientists using data from NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) has discovered evidence of caves beneath the Moon’s surface.

Posted July 18, 2024

Earth Science

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