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NESC Honor Awards

NESC Honor Awards are given each year to NASA employees, industry representatives, and other stakeholders for their efforts and achievements in engineering, leadership, teamwork, and communication.

Posted March 12, 2024

NASA Engineering and Safety Center

Most Impactful NESC Assessments

After reflecting on the more than 1,200 assessments completed by the NESC over the last 20 years, Director Tim Wilson selected these assessments as his top three. They were selected because they would likely have the greatest and most lasting impact on human life and the furtherance of the NESC mission. He shared why their […]

Posted March 12, 2024

NASA Awards Environmental, Safety, Health, Mission Assurance Contract

NASA has selected Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston to provide support services in four broad technical areas including environmental, institutional operational safety, occupational health, aeronautics and space systems, and ground support equipment mission assurance.

Posted March 11, 2024

2024 Solar Eclipse

Earth's Moon

Eclipses

Solar Eclipses

Uncategorized

Total Solar Eclipse 2024: The Moon’s Moment in the Sun

How do we know exactly where and when the Moon will cast its shadow? Eclipse prediction depends on understanding the positions and movements of the Moon, Sun, and Earth. Modern maps build on a long human history of eclipse forecasting. And since 2009, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been mapping the Moon in unprecedented detail.

Posted March 11, 2024

Kennedy Space Center

Statement from NASA’s Janet Petro on Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request

“The rollout of the President’s 2025 budget offers the opportunity to highlight some of the exciting happenings that are helping launch humanity’s future at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Every dollar spent on the agency goes toward U.S. prosperity and improving life on Earth. In the state of Florida, more than 27,000 jobs can […]

Posted March 11, 2024

2017 Solar Eclipse

Solar Eclipses

Moon and Sun Over Wyoming

The Moon passes in front of the Sun in this Aug. 21, 2017, image taken at the point of the maximum partial eclipse. This photo was taken near Banner, Wyoming, where a partial eclipse was visible. However, a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina saw a […]

Posted March 11, 2024

Budget & Annual Reports

ISS Research

NASA Headquarters

President’s NASA FY 2025 Funding Supports US Space, Climate Leadership

The Biden-Harris Administration Monday released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, which includes funding to invest in America and the American people and will allow NASA to continue advancing our understanding of Earth and space while inspiring the world through discovery.

Posted March 11, 2024

Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO)

Organizations

Digital Services Governance Framework

Summary In responding to Milestone 4.2 of the Digital Government Strategy, NASA heeded the Advisory Group’s encouragement to “build upon existing structures and processes as much as possible.” To locate the gaps in existing governance structures, NASA’s Digital Strategy response team identified all necessary decisions concerning digital services, u

Posted March 11, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Missions

NASA’s Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe’s Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists

NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope have tag-teamed to produce definitive measurements of the universe’s expansion rate.

Posted March 11, 2024

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Missions

Nebulae

Science & Research

Star-forming Nebulae

The Universe

Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 with NASA’s Webb

The formation of stars and the chaotic environments they inhabit is one of the most well-studied, but also mystery-shrouded, areas of cosmic investigation. The intricacies of these processes are now being unveiled like never before by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Posted March 9, 2024