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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Following the success of the Apollo 8 circumlunar mission, NASA believed that it could achieve a Moon landing by the summer of 1969 and meet President John F. Kennedy’s goal. Much work remained to accomplish that objective. Three crews and their backups trained for the next three Apollo missions whileContinue reading “55 Years Ago: Five Months Until the Moon Landing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is available in limited opportunities to discuss her mission beginning at 8 a.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 26. The interviews will take place ahead of Dyson launching to the International Space Station in March. The virtual interviews will stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, andContinue reading “NASA Astronaut Available for Interviews Prior to Space Station Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails views a demonstration on screen in the Airspace Operations Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Researchers presented the diverse, long-running efforts in aeronautics at Ames that have helped lay the foundation for agency work related to wildfire response. These includeContinue reading “NASA Leader Casey Swails Learns About Wildfire Work at NASA Ames”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks – might stretch much farther out than we thought. Speeding through the outer edges of the KuiperContinue reading “NASA’s New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper Belt”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Matthew Ramsey is keenly aware of the responsibility he shoulders to ensure the agency’s missions to the Moon are safe and successful. As the mission manager for Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed mission under Artemis, Ramsey is charged with helping to define the requirements and priorities for the missions andContinue reading “Artemis II Mission Manager Matthew Ramsey”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Scientists find that a glowing cloud that obscured a star was caused by a cataclysmic collision of two giant exoplanets.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In 1994, a joint NASA and Department of Defense (DOD) mission called Clementine dramatically changed our view of the Moon. As the first U.S. mission to the Moon in more than two decades, Clementine’s primary objectives involved technology demonstrations to test lightweight component and sensor performance. The lightweight sensors aboardContinue reading “30 Years Ago: Clementine Changes Our View of the Moon”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will discuss recent science research and technology demonstrations aboard the International Space Station at 10:35 a.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 21, with astronauts living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory. During the Earth-to-space call, leadership and the crew will discuss a tech experiment demonstrating the performance ofContinue reading “NASA Administrator to Discuss Science with Crew Aboard Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s iconic “worm” logo and ESA’s (European Space Agency) insignia are painted on the Orion spacecraft’s crew module adapter in this image from Feb. 1, 2024. The adapter houses electronic equipment for communications, power, and control, and includes an umbilical connector that bridges the electrical, data, and fluid systems betweenContinue reading “Signing Our Names”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA works to develop all the systems needed to return astronauts to the Moon under its Artemis campaign for the benefit of all, the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket will be responsible for launching astronauts on their journey. With the liquid oxygen tank now fully welded, all of theContinue reading “Rocket Propellant Tanks for NASA’s Artemis III Mission Take Shape”