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Technicians carefully install a piece of equipment to house Gateway’s xenon fuel tanks, part of its advanced electric propulsion system....

5 min readNASA’s Swift Reaches 20th Anniversary in Improved Pointing ModeAfter two decades in space, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Obser...

Imagine designing technology that can survive on the Moon for up to a decade, providing a continuous energy supply. NASA selected three comp...

Early conceptual renderings of cargo variants of human lunar landing systems from NASA’s providers SpaceX, left, and Blue Origin, right. The...

NASANASA astronaut Alan Bean steps off the lunar module ladder in this photo from Nov. 19, 1969, joining astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. on...

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)The thermal protection system on the outside of the space sh...

Following eight months of intense research, design, and prototyping, six university teams presented their “Inflatable Systems for Lunar Oper...

Associate Director for Mission Planning, Earth Sciences, and environmental scientist Robert J. “Bob” Swap makes a difference by putting kno...

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)Abigail Reigner, a systems engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research...

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Linda Spuler, emergency manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, believes that everyone has a story. “Our stories highlight what...

The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress spacecraft pictured on Feb. 7, 2023, from the International Space Station.Credit: NASANASA will provide...

When Ariel Vargas joined NASA in 2023, he knew he wanted to make an impact. Despite his relatively short tenure, he has earned the repu...

Anthocyanins protect seeds in spaceAfter exposure to space outside the International Space Station, purple-pigmented rice seeds ric...

NASA/Ben Smegelsky & Virgil CameronIn this image from Aug. 26, 2023, participants from the 14th First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Co...

On Nov. 16, 2009, space shuttle Atlantis began its 31st trip into space, on the third Utilization and Logistics Flight (ULF3) mission to th...

Clayton P. Turner, associate administrator for Space Technology Mission DirectorateCredit: NASAClayton P. Turner will serve as the associ...

The rover captured a 360-degree panorama before leaving Gediz Vallis channel, a feature it’s been exploring for the past year. NASA’s Curios...

NASA astronaut Dr. Kjell Lindgren poses with a patient at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center roll-out event for NASA’s “MISSION: All Systems...

Credit: NASAFor the 14th consecutive year, NASA received an unmodified, or “clean,” opinion from an external auditor on its fiscal year 2...

NASA researchers Guan Yang, Jeff Chen, and their team received the 2024 Innovator of The Year Award for their exemplary work on a lidar...

At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the universe – from...

4 min readNASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater LevelsEarth (ESD)Earth HomeExploreClimate ChangeScience...

NASA/Joel KowskyIn this photo, NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, carrying the Orion spacecraft, lifts off the pad at Launch Comple...