Senior Communications Specialist Alana Johnson
“Where I grew up 100% shaped who I am. In fact, my son and I were talking about high schools and how big his is. His high school population is…
20 Years Ago: First Image of Earth from Mars and Other Postcards of Home
On March 8, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the first image of Earth from the surface of another planet. The Earth appearing as nothing more than a bright…
Discovery Alert: a Long Year for a ‘Cold Saturn’
3 min readTwo giant planets comparable to our own system’s Saturn orbit a star not unlike our Sun some 700 light-years away. The outer planet has the longest year –…
NASA Pi Day Challenge Serves Up a Mathematical Marvel
Celebrate one of the world’s most famous numbers with a set of math problems involving real space missions, courtesy of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. March 14 marks the annual…
NASA Helps Emerging Space Companies ‘Take the Heat’
Things are heating up in the atmosphere, and NASA is helping space start-ups stay cool. NASA has decades of expertise in creating technology that protects spacecraft from the intense…
Apollo 9 Astronaut David Scott’s Spacewalk
Astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot for the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission, stands in the command module’s open hatch during his stand-up spacewalk on March 6, 1969. Astronaut Russell…
NASA’s Network of Small Moon-Bound Rovers Is Ready to Roll
Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lunar surface together as a tech demo to show the promise of multirobot missions. A trio of…
Students Become FjordPhyto Volunteers and Discover that Antarctica Is Much Colder Than Texas
Texas A&M sent 31 students to the Antarctic this year---and they did some vital NASA science while they were students, oceanography students and education psychology students worked with Dr. Chrissy…
New Look at NASA, Boeing Sustainable Experimental Airliner
As NASA and Boeing enter the early stages of producing the X-66, the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050, the team…
#ShowUsYourSpecs — Help Raise Awareness About Eclipse Safety
NASA’s Glenn Research Center is encouraging the public to prepare to safely view this awe-inspiring event. YOU can help us build excitement and raise awareness about eclipse safety by taking…