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NASA Headquarters
The NASA Worm Logo sign at the NASA Headquarters building in Washington is unveiled in this image from June 21, 2023. The unveiling occurred just before NASA’s Earth Information Center, an immersive experience combining live data sets with cutting-edge data visualization and storytelling, opened to the public. On Nov.
Posted November 6, 2023
Curiosity (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
The Solar System
The mission team is making sure the robotic scientist, now in its fourth extended mission, is staying strong, despite wear and tear from its 11-year journey. Four thousand Martian days after setting its wheels in Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover remains busy conducting exciting science.
Posted November 6, 2023
General
Game Changing Development Program
Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium
Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
Technology for Living in Space
NASA is hosting a virtual industry forum on Nov. 13, 2023, to introduce the agency’s Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies (LIFT-1) demonstration Request for Information (RFI).
Posted November 6, 2023
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Game Changing Development Program
Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium
Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
NASA Directorates
As NASA ushers in an exciting era of long-term exploration on the Moon with Artemis, new strategies are being formulated to determine how technology, infrastructure, and operations will function together as a cohesive and cross-cutting system.
Posted November 6, 2023
Stennis Space Center
NASA’s Stennis Space Center began with a single mission – to test Apollo rocket stages to carry humans to the Moon. Moving forward, the site has a renewed vision – to evolve as a unique, multifaceted aerospace and technology hub. It also has a clear blueprint for getting there. The NASA Stennis Strategic Plan 2024-2028, […]
Posted November 6, 2023
Citizen Science
Earth Science
Heliophysics
Sprites, those beguiling electrical flashes of light above thunderstorms, raise so many questions: Why do they take the shapes they do? What conditions in the upper atmosphere trigger them? How do sprites affect Earth’s global electric circuit, and what is their contribution to the energy in Earth’s upper atmosphere?
Posted November 6, 2023
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Black Holes
Galaxies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet seen in X-rays, using NASA telescopes. The black hole is at an early stage of growth that had never been witnessed before, where its mass is similar to that of its host galaxy. This result may explain how some of the first supermassive black holes in […]
Posted November 6, 2023
NASA History
On Oct. 1, 1958, NASA, the newly established agency to lead America’s civilian space program, officially began operations, with T. Keith Glennan and Hugh L. Dryden as administrator and deputy administrator, respectively.
Posted November 6, 2023
General
NASA Engineering and Safety Center
The NESC has released a technical bulletin for the Avionics community. Material degradation during the fabrication of microelectronic devices has plagued the space industry for many years owing to the layering of many dissimilar metals to create these devices.
Posted November 6, 2023
Missions
Artemis
Media accreditation is open for the first United States commercial robotic flight to the Moon’s surface as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis program.
Posted November 3, 2023
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