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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft in March 2025, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. The trioContinue reading “NASA Assigns Astronaut Jonny Kim to First Space Station Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Tainaliz Marie Rodríguez Lugo took a deep breath, adjusted her snorkel mask, and plunged into the ocean, fins first. Three weeks earlier, Rodríguez Lugo couldn’t swim. Now the college student was gathering data on water quality and coral reefs for a NASA-led marine biology project in Puerto Rico, where sheContinue reading “NASA Project in Puerto Rico Trains Students in Marine Biology”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Aug. 28, 2009, space shuttle Discovery began its 37th trip into space. The 17A mission to the International Space Station was the 30th shuttle flight to the orbiting lab. During the 14-day mission, the seven-member STS-128 crew worked with Expedition 20, the first six-person crew aboard the station, duringContinue reading “15 Years Ago: STS-128 Delivers Cargo to Enable Six-Person Space Station Crew”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earlier this month, nine small businesses received 2023 NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Ignite Phase II awards to further develop technologies that may be used in the agency’s missions and in the commercial space industry.  The SBIR Ignite Phase II awardees, who will receive up to $850,000 to fundContinue reading “NASA Pilot Program Continues to Award Small Business Innovators “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is extending U.S. media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ninth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The application period for U.S. media and U.S.Continue reading “NASA, SpaceX Extend US Media Deadline for Crew-9 Launch to Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Extreme wildfires like these will continue to have a large impact on global climate. Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, NASA scientists have found. That’s comparable in magnitude to the annual fossil fuel emissionsContinue reading “New NASA Study Tallies Carbon Emissions From Massive Canadian Fires”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA’s new asteroid-hunting spacecraft is taking shape at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Called NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor), this cutting-edge infrared space telescope will seekContinue reading “Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY During the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, approximately 770 AudioMoth recording devices were used to capture sound data as part of the Eclipse Soundscapes Project — a multisensory participatory science (also known as “citizen science”) project that is studying how eclipses impact life on Earth. Following the eclipse, participantsContinue reading “Eclipse Soundscapes AudioMoth Donations Will Study Nature at Night”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NGC 261 blooms a brilliant ruby red against a myriad of stars in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Discovered on Sept. 5, 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop, this nebula is located in one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic companions, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). TheContinue reading “Hubble Traces Star Formation in a Nearby Nebula”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Monday, Aug. 26, 2024 Today’s planning day was a good example of how our team comes together to make quick decisions based on new information and science priorities. The original intent of today’s plan was to perform contact science on some interesting bright-toned rubbly rocks in ourContinue reading “Sols 4287-4288: Back on the Road”