NASA has selected two companies to make spacesuits for its Artemis moon program and future International Space Station (ISS) missions. Teams led by Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace (with ILC Dover as a major contributor) received access to a contract worth up to a total of $3.5 billion to supply spacesuits for future NASA missions through 2034, agency officials announced today (June 1). Like the private outfits that send cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station, Axiom and Collins don’t have guaranteed orders yet under the contract. (The Collins-ILC Dover…
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James Webb Space Telescope will release its 1st science-quality images July 12
We now have a date for our first real images from NASA’s next-generation observatory. Following half a year of commissioning in space, NASA will release the first operational images taken by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, according to an agency statement posted Wednesday (June 1). While Webb officials are still keeping those first imaging targets secret, the agency emphasized that it took five years of work among the several participating space agencies to decide what those first images will show. “Our goals for Webb’s first…
Read MoreNASA Administrator to Launch Artemis Learning Lunchbox Initiative
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is helping kick off a new initiative to deliver food and hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math kits, called Learning Lunchboxes, in Orlando at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, June 3.
Read MoreWhat is today’s moon? Moon phases {year}
Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight distinct phases. The four primary phases of the moon occur about a week apart, with the full moon its most dazzling stage. On Tuesday, June 14, 2022, the Full Strawberry Moon will shine bright in the night…
Read MoreNASA Partners with Industry for New Spacewalking, Moonwalking Services
NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to advance spacewalking capabilities in low-Earth orbit and at the Moon, by buying services that provide astronauts with next generation spacesuit and spacewalk systems to work outside the International Space Station, explore the lunar surface on Artemis missions, and prepare for human missions to
Read MoreCientíficas de la NASA disponibles para entrevistas sobre huracanes
La temporada de huracanes en el océano Atlántico comienza hoy, 1 de junio, y se extiende hasta el 30 de noviembre, y la NASA está preparada una vez más para ayudar a entender y vigilar las tormentas desde su singular atalaya desde el espacio.
Read MoreNASA Scientists Available for 2022 Hurricane Season Interviews
The Atlantic Ocean hurricane season begins today, June 1, and runs through Nov. 30 and NASA is once again prepared to help understand and monitor storms from its unique vantage point of space.
Read MoreHurricane Season 2022 Begins
Hurricanes are the most powerful weather event on Earth. The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season extends from June 1 to November 30.
Read MoreJune: Pre-dawn Planet-Palooza
Download this month’s Sky Tour podcast to find out where and when to spot a rare alignment of five planets in the sky before dawn. The post June: Pre-dawn Planet-Palooza appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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