Category: Updates

Two of Orion’s four recently installed solar array wings are exposed and surrounded by the panels that will protect it during launch and ascent. Source:: …

NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston approximately $47 million to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon by December 2022 …

Join us for the most out-of-this-world work out as NASA celebrates 20 years of continuous human presence on the International Space Station. Lace up your …

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates       

           Target: Mars Mission:  InSight Instrument:  Heat and Physical Properties Package (HP3) Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

           Mission:  Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

NASA will provide live coverage of the return to Earth for agency astronaut Chris Cassidy and two Russian cosmonauts Wednesday, Oct. 21, after six months …

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates       

Scientists have come to realize that, just below the surface, about one third of Mars is covered in ice. Source:: updates 3       

2020 NASA Tipping Point Selections Source:: updates 2       

The Gateway program is making progress toward establishing a sustainable lunar presence. Behind the scenes, women like Sharada Vitalpur and Lindsey Ingram are working hard …

NASA has selected 14 American companies, including several small businesses, as partners to develop a range of technologies that will help forge a path to …

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen as she has her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked as she and fellow crewmates prepare for their Soyuz launch …

           Mission:  DuAxel Project Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J.D. Gammell Source:: updates       

International cooperation on and around the Moon as part of the Artemis program is taking a step forward today with the signing of the Artemis …

​Powerful gushers of energy from seething stars can sculpt eerie-looking figures with long flowing veils of gas and dust. Source:: updates 3       

           Target: Mars Mission:  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Instrument:  HiRISE Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Source:: updates       

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will give a keynote address at the virtual fall Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium meeting at 11:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 14. …

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates       

The beautiful, blushing Iris Nebula is unique amongst its counterparts. Source:: updates 3       

NASA will broadcast key events, including an Artemis program update, of the 71st International Astronautical Congress (IAC), which takes place virtually Monday, Oct. 12, through …

           Target: Jupiter Mission:  Juno Instrument:  JunoCam Image Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Kevin M. Gill © CC BYMusic by Vangelis Source:: updates       

           Mission:  Mars 2020 Rover Instrument:  Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

A trio of space travelers is poised to launch to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Oct. 14. Source:: …

An engineering team at NASA Marshall, tasked with upgrading the International Space Station’s urine recycling system, applied an innovative solution – one with positive, long-term …

On Oct. 8, NASA opened U.S. registration for the agency’s 2021 Human Exploration Rover Challenge. Registration for eligible international teams will open Nov. 6. Source:: …

ASA spacewalkers (from left) Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy give a thumbs up during a spacewalk to install hardware and upgrade International Space Station systems. …

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates       

The tip of the Canadarm2 robotic arm, also formally known as the Latching End Effector, is pictured as the International Space Station soared over the …

This week in 1978, the space shuttle Enterprise was lifted into the Dynamic Test Stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center for the Mated Vertical …

Growing up on a small farm in Shawnee, Kansas, Deborah Crane, launch vehicle chief engineer for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, spent her days caring for …

While advancing its Artemis program – which includes sending the first woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024 – NASA wants to …

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates       

Camila Morales-Navas conducts final preparations on the Electrochemical Ammonia Removal system prior to parabolic flight testing. Source:: updates 3       

Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, completed a simulated launch countdown sequence on Oct. 5 for the sixth test of …

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates       

An Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with the company’s Cygnus spacecraft aboard, launches at 9:16 p.m. EDT, Friday, October 2, 2020, from t NASA’s Wallops Flight …

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with nearly 8,000 pounds of scientific investigations, technology demonstrations, commercial …

           Mission:  Sentinel-6/Jason-CS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

           Mission:  Sentinel-6/Jason-CS Image Credit: NASA Source:: updates