Dancing With Aliens

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

Thousands Apply to Join NASA’s Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut

More than 12,000 people have applied to join NASA’s next class of astronauts, demonstrating strong national interest to take part in America’s plans to explore

This Week in NASA History: STS-6 Launches – April 4, 1983

April 1, 2020 Kourosh Maheri Space Foundation

This week in 1983, space shuttle Challenger, mission STS-6, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Source:: updates 2

Space Foundation Announces New Auxilia Webinar Series to Support Teachers, Parents, and Students

By Space Foundation Editorial Team COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 1, 2020) — The Space Foundation’s team of educators has created a new webinar series now

Klotho and Lina

Appearing as strings of orange dots, the brightest sets of dots belong to asteroids Klotho and Lina. Both orbit out in the main asteroid belt

NASA Awards Contract for Aerospace Research, Development, Engineering Support

March 31, 2020 Kourosh Maheri Shuttle Station

NASA has awarded the Aerospace, Research, Development, and Engineering Support Services (ARDES) II contract to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland,

Veteran Astronaut Karen Nyberg Retires from NASA

After nearly 30 years at NASA’s Johnson Space Center supporting human spaceflight, including 20 years as an astronaut and two spaceflights totaling 180 days in

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Full Mirror Deployment a Success

In a recent test, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space. Source::

Hubble Finds Best Evidence for Elusive Mid-Sized Black Hole

March 31, 2020 Kourosh Maheri ISS Status Reports

Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as “intermediate-mass,” which betrayed

ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/31/2020

By Bill Keeter Vascular Echo: A crewmember doffed the Vascular Echo Mobil-O-Graph Cuff and upload the recorded 13-hour BP data to the EPM Laptop, then

PIA23817: Melas Chasma

March 31, 2020 Kourosh Maheri On The Station

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

NASA, SpaceX Simulate Upcoming Crew Mission with Astronauts

Joint teams from NASA and SpaceX continue making progress on the first flight test with astronauts to the International Space Station by completing a series

NASA, University of Nebraska Release New Global Groundwater Maps and U.S. Drought Forecasts

NASA researchers have developed new satellite-based, weekly global maps of soil moisture and groundwater wetness conditions and one to three-month U.S. forecasts of each product.

#NASAatHome – Let NASA Bring the Universe to Your Home

March 31, 2020 Kourosh Maheri Space Foundation

NASA’s new Internet and social media special, NASA at Home, will show and engage you in the agency’s discoveries, research, and exploration from around the

2019 Space Employment Hit 8-Year High, Launch Activity Reached Decade Growth of 39%, Research from The Space Report Q1 Analysis Shows

By Space Foundation Editorial Team COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 31, 2020) — Across multiple fronts, the space industry heading into 2020 was the strongest in

The World According to Weather Satellites

On April 1, 1960, NASA’s first operational weather satellite, TIROS-1, launched from Cape Canaveral. This multimedia storymap looks at the value and importance of the

Be An Astronaut

In March 2017, Peggy Whitson broke the then-spacewalking record for female astronauts. Source:: updates 3

NASA Adds Shannon Walker to First Operational Crewed SpaceX Mission