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Approval to Exceed GSA Lodging for LPSC 2024

This letter from SARA is to issue a waiver for NASA grantees attending LPSC 2024 allowing them to be reimbursed out of their grants for their actual lodging, although it’s expected to be above the approved GSA amount. This waiver…

People Behind the Work at NASA Stennis

NASA’s Stennis Space Center brings together people from all backgrounds to support NASA’s mission to explore the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all and inspire the world through discovery. NASA Stennis also supports the agency’s core values…

NASA’s Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space via Laser

The video, featuring a cat named Taters, was sent back from nearly 19 million miles away by NASA’s laser communications demonstration, marking a historic milestone. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beamed an ultra-high definition streaming video on Dec. 11…

Cosmic Companionship Quest Marks Major Milestone

Are we alone in the universe? About 30,000 volunteers want to know! These volunteers visited arewealone.earth to sift through a vast data set from the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope—inspecting it for signals that might indicate intelligent extraterrestrial life. As of this week,…

NASA’s BurstCube Passes Milestones on Journey to Launch

Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed testing for BurstCube, a shoebox-sized spacecraft designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions. Members of the team have also delivered the satellite to their partner…

Peralta Wind Farm, Uruguay

The array of turbines is an example of Uruguay’s rapid adoption of wind power.

NASA’s Webb Rings in Holidays with Ringed Planet Uranus

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this dynamic world with rings, moons, storms, and other atmospheric features – including a seasonal polar…

NASA’s GUSTO Prepares to Map Space Between the Stars

Editor’s Note: The GUSTO mission successfully launched on a scientific balloon from Antarctica Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. local time (Dec. 31, 1:30 a.m EST). The balloon is floating 128,000 feet above Earth’s surface and can be tracked in real-time on…

50 Years Ago: Skylab 4 Astronauts Push Past the One-Month Mark

In December 1973, Skylab 4 astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue passed the one-month mark of the third and final mission aboard the Skylab space station. Launching on Nov. 16, they began a planned 56-day…

Sols 4041-4042: Rocker-Bogie Around the Marsmas Sea

On the 4040th sol of Marsmas my downlink gave to me, a faulted drive and a wheelie!

Rebuilding on a Lava Flow in La Palma

Two years after the eruption of Cumbre Vieja in the Canary Islands, some roads have been reconstructed. Â

Dream Chaser Undergoes Testing at NASA Test Facility in Ohio

Good Lands for the 26th U.S. President

After a hunting trip in 1883, young Theodore Roosevelt was drawn to the desolate beauty of Dakota Territory badlands.

NASA SCoPE at AGU: Fueling Curiosity, Fostering Diversity

In December 2023, approximately 24,000 scientists from around the world gathered together in San Francisco, California to attend the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. During this meeting, the NASA Science Activation team NASA Science Mission Directorate Community of Practice…

Port of Rio Grande

Sea-faring vessels waited off the shores of one of Brazil’s busiest ports.