60 Years of Marshall Space Flight Center
by On July 1, 1960, the technical and administrative core of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency became NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Source:: …
Month: June 2020
NASA Names Joel Montalbano International Space Station Program Manager
Kathy Lueders, NASA’s associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, has named Joel Montalbano as manager of the International Space Station Program. The appointment was …
NASA Checks Out SLS Core Stage Avionics for Artemis I Mission
The flight computers and avionics of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s core stage for the Artemis I mission were powered on and have completed …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/30/2020
By Bill Keeter Payloads Plant Habitat-02 Latch Evaluation: Following issues experienced with the Environmental Control System (ECS) installation a few weeks ago, the crew performed …
Joel Montalbano, ISS Program Manager
Joel Montalbano serves as the Manager, International Space Station (ISS) Program Office. Source:: space station 2
Space Foundation Partners with Lt. Governor Primavera to Offer Free Webisode Instruction for Colorado Educators
By Space Foundation Editorial Team DENVER, Colo. (June. 30, 2020) – Lt. Governor Dianne Primavera is partnering with the Space Foundation to provide 10 free …
NASA Science Hosts Public Town Hall to Provide Updates
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate will hold a virtual community town hall with Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen and other members of the Science leadership …
NASA, University Hospitals Join Forces in Response to COVID-19
NASA’s Glenn Research Center and University Hospitals (UH) in Cleveland have collaborated to develop new methods and technologies for decontaminating personal protective equipment (PPE). Source:: …
NASA’s TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World
KELT-9 b is one of the hottest planets known. New measurements from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their …
NASA Spacecraft Helps Identify Solar Radiation Patterns That Expose the Moon
NASA mission helps scientists identify when the Moon is unprotected from charged particles in space. Source:: Goddard
Deep Space 1 Spacecraft at 2.3 Million Miles from Earth
June 30 is Asteroid Day. Source:: updates 3
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/29/2020
By Bill Keeter Payloads MELFI 1/2/3 Nitrogen pressure check: The crew performed a routine pressure check on the 3 MELFI units on board ISS. These …
NASA Plans for More SLS Rocket Boosters to Launch Artemis Moon Missions
NASA has taken the next steps toward building Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters to support as many as six additional flights, for a …
An Astronaut’s View of Work
Spacewalkers Bob Behnken (left) and Chris Cassidy (right) in the Quest Airlock on June 26, 2020, before beginning a spacewalk to replace batteries on one …
NASA Awards Contract for Earth Observing Satellite Instrument
NASA has awarded the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Atmosphere Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) contract to the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Source:: …
Biweekly Washington, D.C., Update for the Week Ending June 26, 2020
By Hanh Le This week, both the House and Senate were in session for committee markups and hearings. A text of the Senate’s $740 billion …
Space Station Science Highlights: Week of June 22, 2020
Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted research on liquid phase sintering in space, measuring neutron radiation aboard the station, and the properties of …
Space4U Podcast: Rachel Lyons – Space for Humanity
By Space Foundation Editorial Team In this episode: We meet Rachel Lyons, Executive Director of Space for Humanity, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/26/2020
By Bill Keeter Systems USOS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #65/S6 Battery EVA #1: Chris Cassidy (EV1) and Bob Behnken (EV2) performed a 6 hour 7 minute …
PIA23960: Arsia Mons
Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: Mars
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP Satellite Analyzes Saharan Dust Aerosol Blanket
Dust storms from Africa’s Saharan Desert traveling across the Atlantic Ocean are nothing new, but the current dust storm has been quite expansive and NASA …
Hubble Captures Galaxy on Edge
We don’t see the beautiful spiral arms of galaxy NGC 5907 in this Hubble image because we are viewing it edge-on, like looking at the …
NASA Completes Artemis Space Launch System Structural Testing Campaign
On June 24, 2020, engineers completed the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s structural testing campaign for the Artemis lunar missions by testing the liquid oxygen …
Space Foundation Discovery Center Starts Phased Reopening June 30
By Space Foundation Editorial Team COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June. 25, 2020) – Space Foundation, a 501(c)(3) global space advocate for 37 years, today announced the …
NASA Awards NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 Spacecraft
On behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III) contract …
How Satellites are Fighting Coronavirus … from Space
By Andrew de Naray Images of the coronavirus commonly seen on the web have been magnified as many as 40,000 times. In fact, coronavirus microbes …
NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins, Crewmates to Discuss Upcoming Spaceflight
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will discuss her upcoming second mission to the International Space Station, along with cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the …
A Day in the Life: Careers at NASA Armstrong
Take a behind-the-scenes look into careers at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) in California. Source:: Armstrong Flight Center
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/25/2020
By Bill Keeter Payloads Radiation Dosimetry Inside ISS-Neutrons (RADI-N2): The crew retrieved all the RADIN-N2 dosimeters from the Russian crew and installed them in the …
PIA23959: Wind Erosion
Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates
Hubble Sees Cosmic Flapping ‘Bat Shadow’
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed a young star’s unseen, planet-forming disk casting a huge shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region – …
The Cleveland Laboratory Enters the Supersonic Age
NACA ushered in the supersonic age by building wind tunnels to study new engine technology. Source:: Glenn Center
The Space Station’s Solar Transit
This composite image, made from six frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of five onboard, in silhouette as it transits the Sun. …
PIA23863: Different Types of Neutron Stars (Illustration)
Mission: NuSTAR Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates
NASA, Partner Space Agencies Amass Global View of COVID-19 Impacts
In response to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) have joined forces to use the …
NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/24/2020
By Bill Keeter TangoLab-2 (Space Tango MultiLab Locker): The crew successfully performed troubleshooting steps to recover commanding capability for Tangolab-2 card 14. TangoLab-2 is a …
Aerojet Rocketdyne Delivers 600th Boost Motor and Divert and Attitude Control System for THAAD
By Space Foundation Editorial Team HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 22, 2020 – Aerojet Rocketdyne has delivered the 600th Boost Motor and the 600th Divert and Attitude …
PIA23958: Terra Cimmeria Channel
Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates
NASA’s TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star
Astronomers using data from NASA’s TESS and retired Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered a planet as large as Neptune circling the young star orbiting AU …