Category: NASA

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson Pays Tribute to Space Pioneer Thomas Stafford Who Passed Away at 93 on Monday

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday’s passing of Thomas Stafford, a lifelong space exploration advocate, former NASA astronaut, and U.S. Air Force general. […]

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NASA Prepares to Launch Crew Members to International Space Station from Kazakhstan March 21

Three crew members will blast off on Thursday, March 21, to support Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station. NASA will provide full launch and crew arrival coverage at the microgravity laboratory. […]

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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH SPOTLIGHT: NASA Pioneer Katherine Johnson Was The Girl Who Loved to Count

Being handpicked to be one of three black students to integrate West Virginia’s graduate schools is something that many people would consider one of their life’s most notable moments, but it’s just one of several breakthroughs that have marked Katherine Johnson’s long and remarkable life. Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in 1918, her intense curiosity and brilliance with numbers vaulted her ahead several grades in school. By 13, she was attending the high school on the campus of historically black West Virginia State College. At 18, she enrolled in the college itself, where she made quick work of the school’s math curriculum and found a mentor in math professor W. W. Schieffelin Claytor, the third African American to earn a PhD in mathematics. She graduated with highest honors in 1937 and took a job teaching at a black public school in Virginia.   […]

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NASA, SpaceX Cargo Resupply Mission to ISS Scheduled to Liftoff From Cape Canaveral March 21

New research and technology demonstrations for NASA are set to launch aboard the agency’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. The launch is targeted for 4:55 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 21, lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. […]

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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: JoAnn Morgan First Female Senior Executive at NASA, Career Spanned More Than 45 Years

As the Apollo 11 mission lifted off on the Saturn V rocket, propelling humanity to the surface of the Moon for the very first time, members of the launch firing team inside Launch Control Center watched through a window. […]

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WATCH: NASA to Highlight Artemis, U.S. Space Leadership in Space During Annual State of NASA Address Today

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will discuss the agency’s goals for the benefit of humanity during the annual State of NASA address on March 11. The event will coincide with the release of the Biden-Harris Administration’s fiscal year 2025 budget proposal. […]

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NASA Hosts Science Webinar for International Space Station Resupply Mission Set in March

NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara is pictured working with the Microgravity Science Glovebox, a contained environment crew members use to handle hazardous materials for various research investigations in space. […]

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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: Sally Ride Was First American Woman in Space, Joined NASA as Part of 1978 Astronaut Class

Sally Ride’s place in history was assured on June 18, 1983, when she rocketed into space on Challenger’s STS-7 mission with four male crewmates. Her contribution to America’s space program continued right up until her death. […]

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NASA’s Latest Class of Next-Generation Astronauts Graduate, Agency Now Accepting New Applications

NASA welcomed its newest class of next-generation Artemis astronauts in a Tuesday ceremony at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The 10 astronaut graduates now are eligible for flight assignments. […]

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WATCH LAUNCH REPLAY: SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Carrying NASA Astronauts Has Safely Reached Orbit

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 10:53 p.m. EST Sunday, March 3, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s Space Coast. […]

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA’s Hubble Telescope Uncovers a Celestial Fossil 162,000 Light-Years Away

This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way galaxy that lies about 162,000 light-years away. […]

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IN MEMORIAM: NASA Honors Life of Former Administrator and Astronaut Richard Truly, Passed Away Feb. 27

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on former NASA Administrator and astronaut Richard Truly, who passed away Feb. 27, 2024, at his home in Genesee, Colorado, at the age of 86.
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NASA Prepares for Solar Eclipse Event that Will Be Seen Across North America in April

On Monday, April 8, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, giving people in 15 states the opportunity to see the Moon completely block the Sun, revealing our star’s relatively faint corona. […]

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NASA Names Dana Weigel International Space Station Manager, Joel Montalbano Space Operations Deputy

NASA has selected Dana Weigel as the International Space Station Program manager, based at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Weigel succeeds Joel Montalbano, who has accepted a position as deputy associate administrator for the agency’s Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Both positions will be effective April 7. […]

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NASA Grants to Engage Students in Quiet Supersonic Community Overflight

NASA has issued new grants to five universities to help develop education plans for the community overflight phase of the agency’s Quesst mission, which aims to demonstrate the possibility of supersonic flight without the typical loud sonic booms. […]

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NASA Technology Contributes to Odysseus Soft Moon Landing, Agency Science Now Underway

For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating on the Moon following the first successful delivery of the agency’s CLPS initiative. […]

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WATCH REPLAY: Intuitive Machines-1 Safely Touches Down on Lunar Surface, First Moon Landing By American Spacecraft in 50 Years

Engineers had to deal with navigation issues, but accomplished the first moon landing by an American spacecraft in 50 years. The Odysseus lunar lander is upright and starting to send data, according to Intuitive Machines. […]

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WATCH LIVE! Intuitive Machines-1 Lunar Landing Scheduled for 6:24 p.m., First Moon Landing By American Spacecraft in 50 Years

The first moon landing by an American spacecraft in 50 years is set for 6:24.

Among the items on its lander Odysseus, a 14-foot-tall lander built and operated by Houston company Intuitive Machines, the IM-1 mission will carry NASA payloads focusing on plume-surface interactions, space weather/lunar surface interactions, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, and a communication and navigation node for future autonomous navigation technologies. […]

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