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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Nicholas Houghton always dreamed of working at NASA and one day becoming an astronaut. Today, he helps design systems that keep crews safe during missions aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, including the successful Artemis II mission around the Moon. After joining NASA as a Pathways intern, Houghton later became a full-time engineer on theContinue reading “Nicholas Houghton: Engineering Crew Safety for NASA’s Artemis Missions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Optical Guidelines document provides standardized, transparent, and repeatable process for assessing the quality of optical data from commercial Earth Observation missions.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will hold its 2026 Lunabotics Challenge Tuesday, May 19, to Thursday, May 21, at the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.   Links to view the Lunabotics competition live can be found on the agency’s Lunabotics page. The competition is slated to run between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. each day.   Continue reading “NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Robotics Competition “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir sits for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Sept. 23, 2025. This photo was chosen as one of the 2025 NASA Photographer of the Year finalists. Meir launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station in February 2026 withContinue reading “NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Milky Way’s galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for decades with numerous ground-based and space-based telescopes, including NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. Soon, NASA’s Nancy Grace RomanContinue reading “Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and SpaceX are targeting a mid-May launch to deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.  Loaded with about 6,500 pounds of supplies, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will lift off aboard the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Following its arrival to the orbital complex, Dragon will dock autonomouslyContinue reading “NASA’s SpaceX 34th Commercial Resupply Mission Overview”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Description This colorized image of Mars was captured by NASA’s Psyche mission on May 3, 2026, about 3 million miles (4.8 million kilometers) from the planet. The spacecraft is approaching the planet for a gravity assist on May 15 that will give it a boost in speed and adjust itsContinue reading “NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Mars During Gravity Assist Approach”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Listen to this audio excerpt from Anton Kiriwas, senior technical integration manager for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program: When Anton Kiriwas first spotted an image of the Moon and Mars hanging over a job fair booth while in college, it captured his imagination, yet felt like a dream too distantContinue reading “I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that coordinate and execute the functions needed to support mission success. Space computing originated in the 1960s with the Apollo Guidance Computers, which were pivotal for guidance, navigation, and control computations during NASA’s first Moon missions. For decades, radiation-hardened processors haveContinue reading “NASA, Industry Advance High Performance Spaceflight Computing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured the Milky Way rising above Earth’s atmospheric glow on April 13, 2026, while aboard a SpaceX Dragon docked to the International Space Station. This atmospheric glow is also called airglow. It occurs when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit lightContinue reading “Glowing Views from the Space Station”