Media accreditation is open for launch of the next commercial resupply services mission to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.
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NASA Welcomes Ecuador as 26th Artemis Accords Signatory
During a ceremony at the Ecuador embassy in Washington on Wednesday, Ecuador became the 26th country to sign the Artemis Accords. Karen Feldstein, NASA associate administrator for International and Interagency Relations, participated in the signing ceremony for the agency, and Gustavo Manrique Miranda, Ecuador’s foreign affairs minister, signed on
Read MoreThe Glowing North Sea
As sunlight and warmth increase in the spring and summer, the North Sea starts to gain swirls and tendrils of color.
Read MoreNASA Holds Ribbon Cutting for New Earth Information Center
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson led a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday to showcase a new Earth Information Center at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The center is part physical space and part virtual experience, which shows how NASA data can improve lives in the face of disasters, environmental challenges, and our changing world.
Read MoreMissing Titanic submersible built with NASA help
The submersible that went missing with five people on board during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic on Sunday (June 18) was built with NASA’s help. Washington-based company OceanGate consulted engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama during the development of the deep-sea submersible, which is called Titan. The collaboration came via a Space Act agreement with the agency, according to OceanGate. “NASA’s expertise in the design and automated fiber placement lay up of composite hulls was extremely valuable on this project,” OceanGate founder and CEO…
Read More‘Babylon 5: The Road Home’ trailer for the new animated movie drops
The show’s creator J. Michael Straczynski has been tantalizing sci-fi fans for some time, hinting that a new adventure set aboard in the 23rd century aboard the giant five mile long space station was in the works. Rumors were rife that a live-action reboot was in the works, but that was unlikely. And Straczynski himself has a considerable about of experience of writing for the animation format, having been one of the principal writers on “The Real Ghostbusters” and “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe,” to name just two…
Read MoreEuropean probe captures stunning up-close views of planet Mercury during brief flyby (video, photos)
Europe’s Mercury-bound probe BepiColombo made its third close flyby of its target planet on Monday (June 19), revealing a surface riddled with craters, including one that just received a name. The joint European/Japanese mission that launched in 2018 is approaching the final stretch of its seven-year voyage through the inner solar system. During this journey, BepiColombo relies on the gravity of planets Earth, Venus and its target Mercury to slow itself down enough to be able to move from the sun’s orbit to that of Mercury in late 2025. The…
Read MoreIt’s Rock Science
Astronauts Reid Wiseman of NASA (left), Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency (middle), and Victor Glover of NASA (right) pay close attention to Moon samples as they receive a lesson in the Apollo Lunar Lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on May 9, 2023.
Read MoreNASA Plans Coverage of Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station
NASA will provide live coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Thursday, June 22, for station upgrades and retrieval of equipment.
Read MoreEthereal ice swirls dance around Arctic peninsula in stunning new satellite image
A stunning new satellite image shows an enormous mass of melting sea ice elegantly swirling around a Russian peninsula in the Arctic. Although beautiful, the scene is a somber reminder of the ever-increasing effects of climate change. NASA’s Aqua satellite snapped the dazzling ice display on May 28 twirling around the Sea of Okhotsk for hundreds of miles, just off the coast of Russia’s snow-covered P’yagina Peninsula. The image was released on June 12 by NASA’s Earth Observatory. The ethereal white swirls, which appear every year, are made up of…
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