NASA Sets Coverage of Orion’s Historic Moon Mission Return, Splashdown
NASA will provide live coverage of the Artemis I uncrewed Orion spacecraft’s return flyby of the Moon on Monday, Dec. 5, as well as its...
Month : December 2022
NASA, SpaceX Launch Climate Science Research, More to Space Station
Among the science experiments being delivered, the JPL-developed EMIT instrument will help scientists determine how airborne mineral dust affects our planet....
NASA, ESA to Discuss Mars Sample Return Mission
The news briefing will present the architecture proposal that is expected to be finalized in September 2022....
US-European Satellite Will Make World’s First Global Freshwater Survey
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will make measurements of over 95% of Earth’s lakes, rivers, and reservoirs....
NASA Marks 25 Years Since Pathfinder Touched Down on Mars
When a daring team of engineers put a lander and the first rover on the Red Planet a quarter century ago, they changed how the...
NASA Awards Environmental Compliance, Restoration Services Contract
NASA has awarded the Architect-Engineer Services Contract for Environmental Compliance and Restoration Services to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. of Dallas, to provide environmental compliance, monitoring,...
NASA Will Inspire World When It Returns Mars Samples to Earth in 2033
This advanced mission architecture will include two sample recovery helicopters....
NASA to Provide Live Coverage of US Spacewalks Outside Space Station
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a pair of U.S. spacewalks in December to install rollout solar arrays to increase electrical power in...
NASA’s Mineral Dust Detector Starts Gathering Data
Newly installed on the space station, the instrument, called EMIT, will help answer questions about how mineral dust from Earth’s arid regions affects climate....
Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in the Cartwheel Galaxy
The space telescope’s powerful infrared gaze provides a new view of how the galaxy has changed over billions of years....
