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Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is getting ready for the next big step in the evolution of its main campus in Huntsville, Alabama. Through a series of multi-year infrastructure projects, Marshall is optimizing its footprint to assure its place as a vibrant and vital hub for the aerospace community in the next era.  Near-term plans […]
Posted April 30, 2024
Commercial Space
Commercial Crew
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, which will carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from the International Space Station. Launch of the ULA (United Launch Alliance) Atlas V rocket and Boeing Starliner spacecraft is targeted for 10:34 p.m.
Posted April 29, 2024
Horsehead Nebula
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Nebulae
This image of part of the Horsehead Nebula, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and released on April 29, 2024, shows the nebula in a whole new light, capturing the region’s complexity with unprecedented spatial resolution.
Posted April 29, 2024
Humans in Space
Astronauts
Commercial Crew
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
In preparation for the arrival of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, four crew members aboard the International Space Station will relocate the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to a different docking port Thursday, May 2, to make way for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. NASA will provide live coverage of the move beginning at 7:30 a.m. EDT on […]
Posted April 29, 2024
Mars
Curiosity (Rover)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
The Solar System
The Sun
The Sun will be at peak activity this year, providing a rare opportunity to study how solar storms and radiation could affect future astronauts on the Red Planet. In the months ahead, two of NASA’s Mars spacecraft will have an unprecedented opportunity to study how solar flares — giant explosions on the Sun’s surface — […]
Posted April 29, 2024
Stennis Space Center
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday named John Bailey as director of the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, effective immediately. Bailey had been serving as acting director since January.  “John will build on his nearly 35 years of federal service to lead our talented workforce at Stennis,” said Nelson.
Posted April 29, 2024
Citizen Science
Mars
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
Planetary Science
The Solar System
There’s good news from NASA’s Cloudspotting on Mars project! That’s the project that invites you to help identify exotic clouds high in the Martian atmosphere. Congratulations to the Cloudspotting on Mars team and all the volunteers who have helped spot Martian clouds!
Posted April 29, 2024
General
NASA Engineering and Safety Center
Download PDF: Innovation that Impacts All NASA Missions: Improving How We Engineer Our Systems John F. Kennedy set the tone for NASA’s culture in 1961 during his famous speech on going to the Moon, “We choose to go to the Moon not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard; because that goal will serve to […]
Posted April 29, 2024
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Glenn Research Center
Green Aviation Tech
Located inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully operational jet engine to test new technology that could make aviation more sustainable.  The engine’s smaller size and modestly equipped test stand means researchers and engineers can try out newly designed engine compon
Posted April 29, 2024
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Missions
Editor’s note: This advisory was updated April 28, 2024 to correct the launch location. NASA and its international partners are set to receive scientific research samples and hardware as a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Sunday, April 28 weather permitting.
Posted April 26, 2024
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