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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As an administrative assistant in the Safety and Mission Assurance Office at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Juliana Barajas approaches her work with one clear mission: to help others succeed.   For over two decades, she has supported NASA’s mission with a career grounded in service,Continue reading “Juliana Barajas: Supporting NASA’s Mission, One Task at a Time “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The first crew to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program completed the agency’s 10th commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Saturday. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronautContinue reading “NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off California”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-price indefinite-delivery requirements contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders. The awards have a total estimatedContinue reading “NASA Selects Contractors to Supply Centers with Helium”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old. “NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose life and work inspiredContinue reading “Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA invites media to view the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft and two other missions — the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory, which will launch along with IMAP as rideshares. Media will have theContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by X-ray emission (in purple) in this image released on July 24, 2025. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source seems to reside in a compact star clusterContinue reading “Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called the Tarantula Nebula. Most of the nebulae Hubble images are in our galaxy, but this nebula is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located about 160,000 light-years away in theContinue reading “Hubble Captures a Tarantula”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. Student at Purdue University NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is continuing to explore a boundary visible from orbit dividing bright, fractured outcrop from darker, smoother regolith (also known as a contact). The team has called this region “Westport,” (a fitting title, as the rover is exploringContinue reading “Linking Local Lithologies to a Larger Landscape”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting coastal communities. The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the tsunami spawned by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka PeninsulaContinue reading “US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The advanced air mobility industry is currently working to produce novel aircraft ranging from air taxis to autonomous cargo drones, and all of those designs will require extensive testing – which is why NASA is working to give them a head-start by studying a special kind of model wing. TheContinue reading “NASA Uses Wind Tunnel to Test Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft Wing”