harvest and eat some of their own food. The station’s EXPRESS Rack 1 — a multipurpose rack system that has housed and supported research aboard station since 2001 — exceeded 100,000 hours of operation in October. The week of July 20th, the space station program set a record on how ma...
Neil Armstrong made history when he stepped onto the moon. Then some of the dust he carried back vanished.
In February 2023, he was named chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba is the first person of Hispanic heritage to hold the role. How will Artemis 2 inform future space missions for the Artemis program and Gateway? Now that we have humans in ...
NASA continues to advance the journey to Mars through progress on the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which will test a number of new capabilities needed for future human expeditions to deep space, including to Mars. This includes advanced Solar Electric Propulsion — an efficient way to move h...
★Aug 20 — SpaceX,Launch Falcon 9 / Starlink Group 10-5,SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS FL: Falcon 9 to launch next batch of Starlink v2-mini satellites; 05:20 EDT. ● Aug 20 — LPI, USRA, NASA,Online / Houston TX:Lunar Surface Science Workshop 24: Science Drivers and Capabilities for...
The sun rises behind NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket at Pad 39B of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.(Image credit: NASA) Here's what NASA has on tap for today: "Around 3 a.m. on Saturday April 2, at approximately L-35 hours and 20 minutes, the Artemis I launch ...
Each CHAPEA mission involves a four-person volunteer crew living and working inside a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The habitat, called the Mars Dune Alpha, simulates the challenges of a mission on Mars, including resource limitations,...
NASA's Voyager mission is nearing half a century of operation. How much longer will the pioneering deep space mission last, and when will we receive our final transmission from the spacecraft?
Hundreds of scientists and 60 laboratories around the world will study bits of the sample. But the rocks' first stop will be NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where a specially designedclean room and gloveboxare awaiting its arrival. The sample is expected to fly on a C-17 aircraft...
Well, first, NASA invites promising candidates for interview at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. About half are invited back for second interviews, and from that group, NASA’s new astronaut candidates are chosen. The trainees spend the next two years learning basic astronaut skills ...