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NASA Flights Link Methane Plumes to Tundra Fires in Western Alaska
Tundra wetlands are shown in late spring at the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Scientists are studying how fire and ice drive methane emissions in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta,…
NASA Sets Coverage for Next SpaceX Resupply Launch to Space Station
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule soars upward after lifting off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 14, 2022, on…
2023 Ozone Hole Ranks 16th Largest, NASA and NOAA Researchers Find
The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on Sept. 21, according to annual satellite and balloon-based measurements made by NASA and NOAA. At 10 million square miles, or…
NASA’s Sandra Irish Wins 2023 Society of Women Engineers Award
Sandra Irish, mechanical systems lead structures engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has been selected to receive the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Resnik Challenger Medal Award for her…
November’s Night Sky Notes: Spy the Seventh Planet, Uranus
3 min readby Liz Kruesi of the Astronomical Society of the PacificYou might be familiar with Saturn as the solar system’s ringed planet, with its enormous amount of dust and…
JPL Engineers Put Their Skills to the Test With Halloween Pumpkins
Pumpkin carving reaches new heights during the annual competition, where spacecraft-building engineers mix ingenuity and creativity for some spectacular results. When mechanical engineers accustomed to building one-of-a-kind spacecraft turn that…
Previous NASA Awards for In Space Production Applications
As of spring 2023, NASA has invested greater than $60M in more than twenty In Space Production Applications (InSPA) awards to entities seeking to demonstrate the production of advanced materials…
NASA Kennedy Awards Operational, Institutional Support Contract
NASA has awarded the Kennedy Operational and Institutional Support (KOIS) contract to Chiricahua-Logical Joint Venture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide services at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…
Halloween on the International Space Station
Although no ghouls or goblins or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting facility still like to get in the Halloween spirit.…
InSPA Inter-Agency Collaboration Goals
High quality production photos of Robonaut (R2) in Building 14 EMI chamber and R1/EMU photos in Building 32 – Robonaut Lab. Photo Date: June 1, 2010. Location: Building 14 –…