December’s Night Sky Notes: Spot the King of Planets
4 min read December’s Night Sky Notes: Spot the King of Planets by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Jupiter is our solar system’s undisputed king of…
Aaron Yazzie: Bridging Indigenous Heritage and Space Exploration
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Aaron Yazzie’s dream of being part of humanity’s exploration of space took him on a journey from his childhood…
Thanksgiving Celebrations in Space
The Thanksgiving holiday typically brings families and friends together in a celebration of common gratitude for all the good things that have happened during the previous year. People celebrate the…
John Herrington Performs a Spacewalk
NASA On Nov. 30, 2002, NASA astronauts John Herrington (pictured) and Michael Lopez-Alegria performed the third and final spacewalk of the STS-113 mission. The goal of the mission was to…
NASA Plane Supported Innovative Microgravity Research in ‘90s
NASA Lewis Research Center’s DC-9 commences one of its microgravity-producing parabolas in the fall of 1994. It was the center’s largest aircraft since the B-29 Superfortress in the 1940s. Credit:…
An Electronic Traffic Monitor for Airports
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The focus of Airspace Technology Demonstration 2 was IADS, a software that coordinates flight schedules between the ramp, tower,…
Manager and Program Analyst Tami Wisniewski
“I love my country. I love serving my country. I think that was ingrained in me in the military, where I grew to realize how lucky we are to live…
NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Next-Generation Space Weather Sensors
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory of Laurel, Maryland, to build the Suprathermal Ion Sensors for the…
NASA, USAID Invite Media to Launch of New SERVIR Central America Hub
NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) invite media to the official launch celebration of the new SERVIR Central America regional hub, located in Costa Rica, on Tuesday,…
NASA AI, Open Science Advance Natural Disaster Research and Recovery
4 min read NASA AI, Open Science Advance Natural Disaster Research and Recovery Hurricane Ida is pictured as a category 2 storm from the International Space Station as it orbited…