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Branch Chief Margarita Sampson
“There’s this thing called the overview effect: Space has this effect on people that you could probably call almost spiritual. Everyone returns from spaceflight changed in one way or another.…
Contributions of the DC-8 to Earth System Science at NASA: A Workshop
Date: August 13–14, 2024Location: Washington, Jointly organized by the NASA History Office and the Earth Science Division, this workshop seeks to document the important contributions of airborne campaigns implemented on…
NASA Teams Prepare Moon Rocket-to-Spacecraft Connector for Assembly
The elements of the super-heavy lift SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for NASA’s Artemis II mission are undergoing final preparations before shipment to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for…
NASA invita a medios al lanzamiento de misión para estudiar océanos y nubes
Unos técnicos trabajan en el procesamiento del observatorio de plancton, aerosoles, nubes y ecosistemas oceánicos (PACE, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA en una plataforma elevada del Centro…
NASA Invites Media to Launch of New Mission to Study Oceans, Clouds
Technicians work to process the NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) observatory on an Aronson Tilt Table in a high bay at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the…
Astronaut Kathryn Thornton Works on Hubble Space Telescope
NASA In this image from Dec. 8, 1993, astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton works with equipment during a spacewalk. The spacewalk was part of an 11-day mission, Servicing Mission 1, to…
NASA Sensor Produces First Global Maps of Surface Minerals in Arid Regions
EMIT delivers first-of-a-kind maps of minerals in Earth’s dust-source areas, enabling scientists to model the fine particles’ role in climate change and more. NASA’s EMIT mission has created the first…
2024 Leadership Changes to Include NASA Stennis Director’s Retirement
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday that after more than 30 years of service, the agency’s Stennis Space Center Director Richard Gilbrech will retire on Saturday, Jan. 13. Stennis Deputy…
NASA Engineer Named in Forbes 30 Under 30 List of Innovators
Clare Luckey, an engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, has been named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 Class of 2024. The other NASA honoree is Katie Konans,…
NASA’s MAVEN Observes the Disappearing Solar Wind
In December 2022, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission observed the dramatic and unexpected “disappearance” of a stream of charged particles constantly emanating off the Sun, known as…