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

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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

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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

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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: NASA, Intuitive Machines Will Hold Televised Conference at 5 p.m. Today to Provide Odysseus Moon Lander Update

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NASA and Intuitive Machines will host a televised conference at 5 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 23, to detail the Odysseus lander’s historic soft Moon landing. […]

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

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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

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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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MARTIANS WANTED: NASA Opens Call to Applicants to Participate in Simulated Yearlong Mars Mission

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NASA is seeking applicants to participate in its next simulated one-year Mars surface mission to help inform the agency’s plans for human exploration of the Red Planet. The second of three planned ground-based missions called CHAPEA is scheduled to kick off in spring 2025. […]

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NASA Artemis Science, First Intuitive Machines Flight Launches Successfully to Moon from Kennedy Space Center

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:05 a.m. EST on February 15. […]

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NASA’s ‘ERIE’ Experiment Sheds Light on Highly Charged Moon Dust

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Researchers are studying data from a recent suborbital flight test to better understand lunar regolith or Moon dust, and it’s potentially damaging effects as NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the lunar surface under the Artemis campaign. […]

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ExplosionsUVEX Targeted to Launch in 2030, NASA’s Next Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer Mission

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As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies and stars evolve. […]

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NASA Names Dwight Deneal as Assistant Administrator for the Office of Small Business Programs

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday that Dwight Deneal will serve as the new assistant administrator for the Office of Small Business Programs at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, effective immediately. […]

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SPACE NEWS: NASA Welcomes Greece as the 35th Country to Sign Artemis Accords

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in a signing ceremony Friday with Greece’s foreign minister, Giorgos Gerapetritis, as his country became the 35th country to sign the Artemis Accords. […]

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NASA Prepares for Intuitive Machines First Moon Mission, Launch Set from KSC Feb. 14 Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket

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As part of NASA’s CLPS initiative and Artemis campaign, SpaceX is targeting no earlier than 12:57 a.m. on Wednesday, February 14, for a Falcon 9 launch of Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander to the Moon’s surface. […]

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NASA to Honor Next Generation of Artemis Astronaut Candidates During Ceremony March 5

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NASA will honor the next generation of Artemis astronaut candidates to graduate at 10:30 a.m. EST Tuesday, March 5, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After completing more than two years of basic training, these candidates will earn their wings and become eligible for spaceflight, including assignments to the International Space Station, future commercial destinations, missions to the Moon, and eventually, missions to Mars. […]

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NASA Names Joseph Pelfrey as New Director of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday named Joseph Pelfrey director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective immediately. Pelfrey has served as acting center director since July 2023. […]

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SPACE HISTORY: NASA’s First Chief Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman Was ‘Mother of Hubble’

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Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018), NASA’s first chief astronomer, is known as the ‘Mother of Hubble.’ In a time when women were discouraged from studying math and science, Roman became a research astronomer and was instrumental in taking NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope from an idea to reality and establishing NASA’s program of space-based astronomical observatories. […]

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Mary Jackson Hired in 1951 By NACA, Was First Black Female NASA Engineer

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Mary Jackson began her engineering career in an era in which female engineers of any background were a rarity. […]

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NASA Prepares for Axiom Mission 3 Departure from Space Station Saturday Morning

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NASA will provide live coverage of the undocking and departure of the Axiom Mission 3 private astronaut flight from the International Space Station before the crew returns to Earth. […]

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA’s Space Station Crew Captures Earth’s Atmospheric Glow

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This high-exposure photograph revealed Earth’s atmospheric glow against the backdrop of a starry sky in this image taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 21, 2024. […]

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