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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to share mission stories covering Artemis Moon missions, nuclear propulsion, aeronautics, and more. NASA published an Announcement for Proposals on May 21 asking filmmakers, documentarians, songwriters, storytellers, poets, and othersContinue reading “Call for Creatives: NASA Seeks Help Illuminating Mission Storytelling”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will provide live coverage on Wednesday, May 27, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:15 a.m. EDT and last roughly five hours. Watch NASA’s live coverage beginning at 9:45 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, andContinue reading “NASA Sets Coverage for Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This near-infrared image released on May 6, 2026, shows a section of one of the spiral arms of Messier 51 (M51). M51 is one of four nearby galaxies observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in a study of nearly 9,000 star clusters. Data from the study shows that moreContinue reading “Webb Studies Star Clusters”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY From high‑speed research flights to high‑altitude science campaigns, NASA depends on aircraft that perform at their best and the ground crews who keep them mission ready. At NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, specially trained maintenance crews are essential to keeping the agency’s aircraft flying safely and reliably.Continue reading “Keeping NASA Flying: Ground Crews Ensure Aircraft Readiness”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA announced plans Friday to compete the next contract for managing and operating the agency’s federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in Southern California at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), to ensure continued accountability and strong value for U.S. taxpayers. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has managed theContinue reading “NASA to Compete Contract for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A material recently discovered and tested at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland could help astronauts pack lighter for future missions to the Moon. NASA is researching ways explorers could “live off the land” by harnessing lunar resources, including melting Moon rocks to extract metals for building infrastructure and oxygenContinue reading “New Material Could Help NASA Melt Moon Rocks, Harness Lunar Resources”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA announced Friday an agencywide realignment to increase mission focus and move out on the National Space Policy. These changes position the agency to better deliver on the nation’s highest‑priority objectives with speed and efficiency. During the Ignition event in late March, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and agency leaders outlinedContinue reading “NASA Announces Realignment to Accelerate Mission Delivery”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Look closely at this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see galaxies of various shapes and sizes clustered together toward the center-left of the image. A few foreground stars shine brightly and are easily distinguished by the spikes that appear to extend outward from each star. These spikes,Continue reading “Hubble Captures Galaxy Cluster”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The strongest of several twisters to touch down in the southern part of the state in early May 2026 left a visible path of damaged vegetation.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media are invited to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Wednesday, June 17, to view Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket, carrying a Katalyst robotic spacecraft that will attempt to boost the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Katalyst’s robotic servicing spacecraft, called LINK, will launch on Pegasus inContinue reading “NASA to Showcase Mission to Boost Swift Spacecraft’s Orbit”