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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Former NASA astronaut Joe Engle poses in front of an X-15 plane in this Dec. 2, 1965, photo. On June 29, 1965, Engle flew the X-15 to 280,600 feet, becoming the youngest U.S. pilot to qualify as an astronaut. The Kansas native flew the X-15 for the U.S. Air ForceContinue reading “Astronaut Joe Engle Flies X-15”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astrophysics Science Video Producer – Goddard Space Flight Center Growing up in Detroit with a camera in her hand, Sophia Roberts — now an award-winning astrophysics science video producer—never imagined that one day her path would wind through clean rooms, vacuum chambers, and even a beryllium mine. But framing theContinue reading “Sophia Roberts: Showcasing the Cosmos”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). At first glance, UGC 11397 appears to be an average spiral galaxy: it sports twoContinue reading “Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Earth planning date: Monday, June 23, 2025 Curiosity was back at work on Monday, with a full slate of activities planned. While summer has officially arrived for much of Curiosity’s team back on Earth, Mars’ eldest active roverContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4580-4581: Something in the Air…”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY For some people, a passion for space is something that might develop over time, but for Patrick Junen, the desire was there from the beginning. With a father and grandfather who both worked for NASA, space exploration is not just a dream; it remains a family legacy. Now, as theContinue reading “I Am Artemis: Patrick Junen”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is a glittering beacon in this image released on June 25, 2025, in tribute to the groundbreaking legacy of astronomer Dr. Vera Rubin, whose observations transformed our understanding of the universe. In the 1960s, Rubin and her colleagues studied M31 and determinedContinue reading “Sparkling Andromeda”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other’s light each time it swings around, that’s an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA’s Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen science project presents more than 10,000 of these rare pairs – 10,001 to be precise. These objectsContinue reading “NASA Citizen Scientists Find New Eclipsing Binary Stars”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is testing a series of large spacecraft rolls that will help it hunt for water. After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to squeeze even more science out of the busy spacecraft as itContinue reading “NASA Mars Orbiter Learns New Moves After Nearly 20 Years in Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds, and – for a few weeks in October – scientists. A team from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, with partners at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and the NavalContinue reading “By Air and by Sea: Validating NASA’s PACE Ocean Color Instrument”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Since childhood, Derrick Bailey always had an early fascination with aeronautics. Military fighter jet pilots were his childhood heroes, and he dreamed of joining the aerospace industry. This passion was a springboard into his 17-year career at NASA, where Bailey plays an important role in enabling successful rocket launches. BaileyContinue reading “Meet the Space Ops Team: Derrick Bailey”