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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Solicitation Number: NNH16ZCQ001K-Appendix-R August 16, 2024 – Draft Solicitation Released Solicitation Overview The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to release a solicitation under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (Next STEP-2) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to seek industry-led concept definition and maturation studies that address lunar surfaceContinue reading “NextSTEP R: Lunar Logistics and Mobility Studies”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A pair of CubeSats from NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator, or PTD, series lifted off on SpaceX’s Transporter-11 rideshare mission at 11:56 a.m. PDT Friday, August 16, from Vandenburg Space Force Base in California. The two small satellites, PTD-4 and PTD-R, will help advance NASA’s efforts to validate novel technologies andContinue reading “NASA CubeSats Launch as Commercial Rideshares”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA works every day to improve air travel – and has been doing so since its creation decades ago. On National Aviation Day, NASA and all fans of aviation get the chance to celebrate the innovative research and development the agency has produced to improve capability and safety in flight.Continue reading “NASA Celebrates Ames’s Legacy of Research on National Aviation Day”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duration human space exploration missions with safe, nutritious, and tasty food. The competitors’ technologies addressContinue reading “NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Locations designed as a maintenance work area and an exercise area on the International Space Station are commonly used by crew members for stowage and body maintenance activities, respectively. These differences between intended and actual use demonstrate that systematic observation of material culture can help researchers identify how astronauts adapt to lifeContinue reading “Station Science Top News: August 16, 2024”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY An OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule training model parachutes down in this image from Aug. 30, 2023. This drop test was part of NASA’s preparations for the return of samples from the asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24, 2023. OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid.Continue reading “Revisiting OSIRIS-REx”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 16, 2024 It’s time to move on from our “Kings Canyon” drill site, so today’s plan focused on our usual tidy up routine after a drill campaign. First we need to dump out any material in the drill chambers, in an action called “RAGE” –Continue reading “Sols 4277-4279: Getting Ready To Say Goodbye to the King!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A bubbling region of stars both old and new lies some 160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. This complex cluster of emission nebulae is known as N11, and was discovered by American astronomer and NASA astronaut Karl Gordon Henize in 1956. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope brings a new imageContinue reading “Hubble Spots Billowing Bubbles of Stellar Floss”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The first “A” in NASA stands for aeronautics. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is just one of several NASA centers conducting revolutionary research to make flight cleaner, safer, and quieter. But an interest in flying goes beyond the professional for many at NASA. Meet a handful of NASA Glenn employeesContinue reading “At Work and Beyond, NASA Employees Find Joy in Aviation”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In the heart of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, a team of photographers, imagery acquisition specialists, analytic scientists, and graphic designers work together to create visual narratives that capture the defining moments of space exploration with creativity and precision.  From the Apollo missions to the Artemis campaign, these images,Continue reading “Merging Art and Analysis: The Collaborative Efforts Behind NASA Johnson’s Visual Legacy  “