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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA continues its transition toward a commercial low Earth orbit marketplace, an agency-supported commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed five development and design milestones. Starlab’s planned design consists of a service module and a habitat that will be launched to orbit on a single flight. The milestones, part ofContinue reading “NASA Sees Key Progress on Starlab Commercial Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The The Stratospheric Projectile Entry Experiment on Dynamics (SPEED), a two-stage stratospheric drop test architecture, is currently under development to bridge the state-of-the-art gap that many NASA flagship missions require to reduce system risk and enable more optimized designs via margin reduction. To do this, a two-stage vehicle will dropContinue reading “Ejection Mechanism Design for the SPEED Test Architecture”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Sylvie Crowell, a materials researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has received a NASA Early Career Initiative (ECI) award for a research proposal titled “Lunar Dust Reduction through Electrostatic Adhesion Mitigation (L-DREAM).” The research focuses on developing a passive lunar dust mitigation coating for solar cells and thermalContinue reading “NASA Funds Early Career Employee Research”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Nineteen teams of students from across the nation in grades 8-12 worked for months in classrooms, labs, basements, and garages for the opportunity to test their projects at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. This spring, the teams’ hard work was put to the test in the 2.2 Second DropContinue reading “NASA Glenn Announces 2025 Drop Tower Challenge Winners “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Thousands of baseball fans travel across the country annually to watch teams compete in Omaha, Nebraska, during the NCAA Men’s College World Series in June. This year, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland swung for the fences to celebrate the city’s Diamond Anniversary of hosting the event and to highlightContinue reading “NASA Glenn Experts Join Baseball Fans in Omaha”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Monday, July 14, 2025 The Curiosity rover continues to navigate through the region of Mount Sharp characterized by the boxwork terrain.  After successfully completing a drive of about 34 meters over theContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4600-4601: Up and Over the Sand Covered Ramp”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator, Framework Earth planning date: Friday, July 11, 2025 Imagine this vista as the view out your office window to start your workday. Your natural tendency would be to grab your camera and photograph as much of the view as possible. Curiosity wasContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4597-4599: Wide Open Spaces”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY From June 16–18, 2025, the NASA Science Mission Directorate Community of Practice for Education (SCoPE) Summer Symposium brought together a community of scientists, educators, and outreach professionals to celebrate and strengthen NASA’s commitment to developing its workforce and broadening participation in science. NASA SCoPE is a NASA-funded initiative at ArizonaContinue reading “NASA SCoPE Summer Symposium Celebrates Early Career Scientists and Cross-Team Collaboration”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected seven companies to assist the agency with architectural and engineering services at multiple agency centers and facilities. The Western Regional Architect-Engineer Services is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract has a total estimated value not to exceed $75 million. The contract was awarded on July 14 with aContinue reading “NASA Selects Companies for Architect-Engineer Services Contract”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this one, called ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections of tens of thousands to millions of stars tightly bound together by gravity. Globular clusters generally form early in the galaxies’ historiesContinue reading “Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine”