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Marshall Space Flight Center
Media are invited to attend the 2025 Alabama Space Day from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CST on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, and aerospace industry partners will host the annual public event to celebrate Alabama’s […]
Posted February 24, 2025
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is celebrating its 65-year legacy of ingenuity and service to the U.S. space program – and the expansion of its science, engineering, propulsion, and human spaceflight portfolio with each new decade since the NASA field center opened its doors on July 1, 1960.
Posted February 24, 2025
Johnson Space Center
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Improving space-based pharmaceutical research Researchers found differences in the stability and degradation of the anti-Covid drug Remdesivir in space and on Earth on its first research flight, but not on a second. This highlights the need for more standardized procedures for pharmaceutical research in space.
Posted February 24, 2025
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Flight Innovation
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
University Innovation
University Student Research Challenge
Great ideas, and the talent and passion that bring them to life, can be found anywhere. In that spirit, NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC) in 2024 selected its first group of community college students to contribute original research to the agency’s transformative vision for 21st century aviation.
Posted February 24, 2025
General
The Simulation and Graphics Branch produces several software tools to facilitate building and operating simulations. Many of these are available to download and are linked below.
Posted February 24, 2025
Blogs
Over the past week, Perseverance has been parked at a location called “Tablelands,” an area containing the “Serpentine Lake” abrasion patch acquired a few weeks ago. The Mars 2020 team has been diligently analyzing the data from the abrasion patch, and these findings led to the decision to return to Tablelands and attempt a sample […]
Posted February 22, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Office
Launch Services Program
NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope)
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth.
Posted February 22, 2025
Space Weather
Heliophysics
Joint Agency Satellite Division
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded a delivery order to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. of Boulder, Colorado, to build spacecraft for the Lagrange 1 Series project as a part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next program. The award made under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contract, […]
Posted February 21, 2025
Hubble Space Telescope
Nebulae
The universe is a dusty place, as this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image featuring swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula reveals.
Posted February 21, 2025
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Science Mission Directorate
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission is targeted to launch no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26. The mission will lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s […]
Posted February 21, 2025
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