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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and its industry partners are preparing for next year’s Artemis III demonstration mission by completing new wind tunnel tests on SpaceX’s Super Heavy Version 3 rocket booster. The tests, conducted at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, focused on better understanding the extreme aerodynamic forces the rocketContinue reading “NASA, SpaceX Advance Wind Tunnel Tests for Starship Rocket “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, Friday, providing a critical resource for the agency and its partners to test the safety and performance of future generations of aircraft, rockets, and space exploration vehicles. Located at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, the Flight DynamicsContinue reading “NASA Opens New Flight Dynamics Research Facility in Virginia”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Earth planning date: Friday, July 24, 2026 Curiosity spent the week continuing to climb her way up through the layers of Mount Sharp, exploring the sedimentary rock strip chart of Martian history. The rover has reachedContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4961-4967: Approaching a Break in the Rock Record?”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names as part of a commemorative plaque on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The names were submitted by people globally, including astronauts from Artemis II and Artemis III. The memory card willContinue reading “NASA’s Roman Telescope to Carry 1.35 Million Names to Deep Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written byContinue reading “APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Raging wildfires disrupted summer in Spain and France amid sweltering heat waves and prolonged drought.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The gusty wind didn’t make it easy to hold tight to a balloon so large. The balloon, a scientific instrument called an ozonesonde, was about to be released into the atmosphere above the Texas Gulf Coast by students from NASA’s SARP (Student Airborne Research Program), which concluded its summer sessionContinue reading “Students Take on Airborne Field Research with NASA”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham will embark on her first mission to the International Space Station, serving as an Expedition 76 flight engineer. Burnham will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-30 spacecraft with cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Konstantin Borisov. Launch is targeted for March 2027, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan,Continue reading “NASA Assigns Astronaut Deniz Burnham to First Space Station Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In this July 6, 2026, image, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, exposing the dusty structures and hidden activity that shape this unusual system. Centaurus A is 11 million light-years away from Earth, relatively close in cosmic terms. Yet, unlike most nearbyContinue reading “Starburst Galaxy Centaurus A”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA interns at Johnson Space Center are applying their talents to real-world projects while working alongside the engineers, scientists, communicators, and innovators advancing human spaceflight. Learn how these students are gaining hands-on experience, contributing to real missions, and preparing to join the nation’s highly skilled and competitive aerospace workforce.   Meet the students behind the work and discover what inspiredContinue reading “NASA Johnson Interns Shaping the Future of Exploration “