(NASA) - In 1992, the Ulysses spacecraft flew past Jupiter and completed its closest approach at only 277,474 miles (~ 446,551 km) away from the planet's center! The primary mission of the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses spacecraft was to study the north and south poles of the Sun.
NASA has named Diane Dailey, Chloe Mehring, Fiona Turett and Brandon Lloyd as flight directors to help the agency manage operations of the International Space Station. "These four join a storied group of individuals. We're excited to have them and know they are up for the task," said Steve Koerner, director of flight operations at NASA.
WASHINGTON - NASA and three international partners have signed an agreement to cooperate on a proposed mission to search for ice deposits under the surface of Mars, a precursor for human missions there. In a Feb.
Christina Koch has been back to Earth for a year after spending 328 days in space. The longest single spaceflight by a woman, and second only to Scott Kelly in NASA records. To Koch, it was not about making history, but about giving back. "Well, I think the biggest thing, the biggest takeaway for me [...]
NASA and SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, have announced that they will collaborate to provide launch services for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission. SPHEREx is a $98.8 million two-year mission that aims to explore the sky in near-infrared light.
NASA asked university students around the country to help solve the pesky problem of lunar dust as the agency plans for sustainable human exploration of the Moon. Through the 2021 competitive Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge and the Space Grant project, NASA has award
Metal and carbon fiber 3D printer manufacturer Markforged is helping a collaborative team take on the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Subterranean Challenge. The project aims to develop fully autonomous robotic systems capable of traversing underground environments such as caves during planetary explorations.
EMERALD ISLE - Emerald Isle resident and Croatan High School graduate Trevor Brownlow is getting a close-up view of U.S. space exploration and its history. Mr. Brownlow, 27, has worked since August 2019 as a paid public affairs intern at the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Miss.
(WTAJ) - If you love food and outer space, you could experience the best of both worlds with a chance to earn $25,000. It's part of "The Deep Space Food Challenge" cooked up by NASA. The agency wants to pay teams who can determine how to get fresh food to "future space explorers" instead of [...]
SpaceX will be launching an astrophysics mission into Earth's orbit for NASA. NASA has selected the spaceflight company to launch the SPHEREx mission (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer), NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California announced Thursday (Feb. 4). The 329-lb.
Christina Koch has been back to Earth for a year after spending 328 days in space. The longest single spaceflight by a woman, and second only to Scott Kelly in NASA records. To Koch, it was not about making history, but about giving back. "Well, I think the biggest thing, the biggest takeaway for me [...]
Thirty years, $8.8 billion, multiple mishaps and budget crises, and a threatened congressional cancellation later, the James Webb Space Telescope appears to be finally ready. NASA now plans to launch it into orbit as early as Oct. 31 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket supplied by the European Space Agency, from a site in French Guiana.
A coldhearted decision to kill off a group of monkeys has animal rights groups understandably outraged and elected officials wanting answers.
Many animal lovers were shocked and appalled by the news made public recently that all 27 monkeys held at a NASA research facility were euthanized on a ...
By Joe Atkinson / NASA'S LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER, HAMPTON, VIRGINIA/ A NASA airborne study has returned to the field for a second year of science flights to advance the accuracy of short- and long-term climate models.
MOREHEAD, Ky. (WKYT) - A second space training antenna used by NASA will soon be a new landmark on an eastern Kentucky campus. The spring semester is back in session at Morehead State University, and while students make their way to class, a large fixture hovering above is tracking activity millions of miles away.
(NASA) - NASA is remembering Millie Hughes-Fulford, the first woman to fly as a NASA payload specialist, who died Thursday. Hughes-Fulford was selected as a payload specialist in January 1983 and flew in June 1991 aboard the space shuttle Columbia on the STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS 1) mission, the first mission dedicated to biomedical studies.
Washington, NASA has selected tech billionaire Elon Musk's private aerospace company SpaceX to provide launch services for an astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light. The planned two-year mission is called SPHEREx, short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer.
NASA Gear has announced the NASA Center Poster Series by Neal Williams. In conjunction with the NASA Ames Research Center Exchange, Oxcart Assembly - a collective of designers, thinkers, and doers - has conceptualized a set of high quality, limited-edition collectible posters hand-drawn by artist Neal Williams of Epic Problems Print Shop and Design Studio.
Trees connect us scientifically, environmentally, and culturally. We all know that trees are vital to our planet's health. As trees grow, they absorb carbon from the atmosphere, playing a vital role in Earth's global carbon cycle and helping to regulate Earth's carbon budget. But before you read