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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson Participates in Space Agencies Leaders’ Summit at COP 28
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in the first-ever Space Agencies Leaders’ Summit at COP 28 in Dubai, UAE, on Dec. 4, 2023, where he underscored the importance of sharing climate…
NASA Continues Progress on Artemis III Rocket Adapter with Key Joint Installation
NASA/Sam Lott Engineers and technicians at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recently installed a key component called the frangible joint assembly onto the adapter that connects the…
Pioneer 10 Crosses the Asteroid Belt
If spacecraft are to visit the outer solar system, they must cross the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The Pioneer mission was faced with the question of just how…
Artificial Intelligence Plus Your Cell Phone Means Better Maps of Earth!
1 min readIn 2019, the GLOBE Land Cover project began asking volunteers to help map planet Earth by taking photos of their surroundings facing multiple directions, including north, south, east and west. Now,…
30 Years Ago: STS-61, the First Hubble Servicing Mission
“Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a ; James B. Odom, Hubble Program Manager discovery after its launch that…
NASA, Partners Launch US Greenhouse Gas Center to Share Climate Data
Visualization of total carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere in 2021 NASA NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, and other United States government leaders unveiled…
NASA Welcomes Angola as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
During a ceremony in Washington Nov. 30, Angola became the 33rd country to sign the Artemis Accords. The Artemis Accords establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration…
Erickson to Retire after Over 40 Years of Service
3 min readIt is my pleasure to share information about new hires within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) on this blog, and it is also my bittersweet duty to share…
NASA Honors Steve Jurczyk, Former Acting Administrator, Space Leader
Former NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk passed away Nov. 23, at the age of 61, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. During his career, which spanned more than three decades…
Hubble Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Servicing Mission 1
6 min readIn the pre-dawn hours on Dec. 2, 1993, the space shuttle Endeavour launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a critical mission to repair NASA’s Hubble Space…