Joe Acaba Selected To Serve As NASA’s Chief Astronaut
NASA has selected veteran astronaut Joe Acaba as chief of the Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. A decorated veteran of…
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NASA Scientists Begin Studying 50-Year-Old Frozen Apollo 17 Moon Samples
Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently received samples of the lunar surface that have been carefully stored in a freezer…
Know Your Crew…Four! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Mission Astronauts [Video]
After being together — every day — for many many months, preparing for a long-duration spaceflight, you’d think the astronauts of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission…
Sealed Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Opened for the First Time – “Incredibly Precious” Scientific Gift
Like a time capsule that was sealed for posterity, one of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 has been opened under…
NASA Just Opened a Sealed Lunar Sample Collected by Apollo Astronauts 50 Years Ago
People say good things come to those who wait. NASA thinks 50 years is the right amount of time as it begins tapping into one…
60 Years Ago: Astronaut John Glenn, the First American to Orbit the Earth Aboard Friendship 7
In February 1962, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was in full swing. Both nations had developed spacecraft to send…
Scientific Hardware and Space Experiments Returning to Earth on SpaceX CRS-24 Dragon
A retired microscope and samples from studies on colloids and cellular signaling are among the cargo returning from the International Space Station aboard the 24th…
Commercial Crew Shake-Up: NASA Reassigns Two Astronauts From Boeing Starliner to SpaceX Crew Dragon
NASA has reassigned astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada to the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station as part of the Commercial…
5 Hazards Astronauts Face in Human Spaceflight
A human journey to Mars, at first glance, offers an inexhaustible amount of complexities. To bring a mission to the Red Planet from fiction to…
Intriguing Science Experiments Launching on SpaceX’s Cargo Resupply Mission to the Space Station
The 23rd SpaceX cargo resupply services mission carrying scientific research and technology demonstrations to the International Space Station is targeted to launch in late August from NASA’s…
10 Years Ago: NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Launched on Interplanetary Journey To Observe Jupiter
On August 5, 2011, NASA’s Juno spacecraft launched on a five-year interplanetary journey that took it to the giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
Top 5 Things to Know About NASA’s Astromaterials Research and Science (ARES) Division
Since the return of the first Apollo lunar samples, or Moon rocks, in 1969, NASA’s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA’s Johnson…
NASA Celebrating 20 Years of International Space Station Spacewalks [Video]
On July 20, 2001, two NASA astronauts took the first “steps” out of the International Space Station’s Quest airlock, marking the start of two decades…
NASA Habitation and Logistics Outpost: Contract Finalized for Moon Outpost Living Quarters
NASA and Northrop Grumman of Dulles, Virginia, have finalized a contract to develop the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for Gateway, which will be a…
First Sample of Asteroid Ryugu Arrives at NASA’s Johnson Space Center
NASA recently received its first sample of asteroid Ryugu, which was returned to Earth last December by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft….
NASA Prepares “Moonikin” Commander for Artemis I Moon Mission
When NASA’s Orion spacecraft launches aboard the powerful Space Launch System rocket for the spacecraft’s first mission around the Moon later this year, a suited…
Using the International Space Station to Study Earth’s Climate & Keep Our Planet Safe
As Earth’s climate changes, the International Space Station watches from above, helping to provide unique insights to keep our planet safe. On Earth, we often…
NASA Adds Kayla Barron to SpaceX Crew-3 Mission to International Space Station
NASA has assigned Kayla Barron to serve as a mission specialist for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, which is targeted…
