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Johnson Space Center
Game Changing Development Program
NASA’s Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project completed an important step toward using local resources to support human exploration on the Moon. The CaRD team performed integrated prototype testing that used concentrated solar energy to extract oxygen from simulated lunar soil, while confirming the production of carbon monoxide through
Posted February 13, 2026
Cryosphere
Earth Observatory
Earth Visualization & Mapping
Ice & Glaciers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The glacier in southeastern Svalbard pulses with the changing seasons, speeding up and slowing its flow toward the sea.
Posted February 13, 2026
Private Astronaut Missions
Commercial Space
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
NASA and Vast have signed an order for the sixth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than summer 2027 from Florida.
Posted February 12, 2026
Humans in Space
Artemis
Artemis 3
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Johnson Space Center
Spacesuits
xEVA & Human Surface Mobility
The next-generation spacesuit for NASA’s Artemis III mission continues to advance by passing a contractor-led technical review, as the agency prepares to send humans to the Moon’s South Pole for the first time. Testing is also underway for the new suits, built by Axiom Space, with NASA astronauts and spacesuit engineers recently simulating surface
Posted February 12, 2026
Nebulae
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released on Feb. 10, 2026, reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in the Egg Nebula, sculpted by freshly ejected stardust.
Posted February 12, 2026
Earth Observatory
Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)
Snow
Cortina d’Ampezzo, flanked by steep-sided mountain peaks, is the site of several skiing and sliding events in the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
Posted February 12, 2026
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aeronautics Technology
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Flight Demos Capabilities
Flight Innovation
Integrated Aviation Systems Program
Langley Research Center
NASA completed the first flight test of a scale-model wing designed to improve laminar flow, reducing drag and lowering fuel costs for future commercial aircraft.  The flight took place Jan.
Posted February 12, 2026
Artemis 2
Artemis
Exploration Ground Systems
I Am Artemis
Kennedy Space Center
Missions
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Space Launch System (SLS)
Jesse Berdis’s dream of becoming a structural engineer began with visions of skyscrapers rising above the Dallas and Oklahoma skyline. Today, that dream has soared beyond city limits, reaching towering heights at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Posted February 11, 2026
Commercial Crew
From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot pose next to their mission insignia inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026.
Posted February 11, 2026
Stennis Space Center
Water flowing out. Data flowing in. A water system activation at the Thad Cochran Test Stand (B-2) on Jan. 30 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, helped capture critical data to support testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) stage expected to fly on the Artemis IV mission. The activation milestone […]
Posted February 11, 2026
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