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New Program Office Leads NASA’s Path Forward for Moon, Mars

NASA has established the new Moon to Mars Program Office at NASA Headquarters to carry out the agency’s human exploration activities at the Moon and Mars for the benefit of humanity. Amit Kshatriya will serve as the agency’s first head of…

Return of Tulare Lake

Heavy precipitation has flooded communities and agricultural fields in the former lakebed.

NASA Receives Top Honor of Best Place to Work in Federal Government

NASA is taking home the honor of the Best Place to Work in the Federal Government among large agencies for 11 years in a row, as ranked by the Partnership for Public Service. The rankings, announced March 29, reflect the…

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Annual FIRST Robotics Competition Returns to Rocket City on April 6-8

The Rocket City Regional – Alabama’s annual FIRST Robotics Competition – will be held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 6-8 at the Von Braun Center South Hall in Huntsville, Alabama. This event is free and open to the media, public,…

Manufacturing Partnership Seeks to Strengthen Employment Pipeline at Michoud

By Heather Keller A regional partnership that includes NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility aims to build a pipeline for future aerospace workers. On March 31, local, state, federal, and agency leaders gathered at Michoud to officially launch the Greater New Orleans Regional Advanced…

Chip Dobbs: Embodying the Importance of Human Connection and Giving Back

By Lane Figueroa William “Chip” Dobbs III is a supply management specialist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where he has worked for 29 years. Dobbs is also deaf. But instead of this disability holding him back, it has become a…

NASA Selects Student Teams for High-Flying Balloon Science

Teams of high school and college students from across the country are preparing small experiments to accomplish big science during two upcoming eclipses.

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40 Years Ago: First Flight of Space Shuttle Challenger

In April 1983, with five flights of space shuttle Columbia successfully completed, NASA launched its second space worthy orbiter, Challenger, on its maiden voyage, STS-6.

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A Flexible, Personalized, On-Demand Astropharmacy

Quantum Rydberg Radar for Surface, Topography, and Vegetation

PI – Planetary Defense

PI - Planetary Defense

The Nyx Mission to Observe the Universe from Deep Space – Enabled by EmberCore, a High Specific Power RadioisotopeElectric Propulsion System

The Nyx Mission to Observe the Universe from Deep Space - Enabled by EmberCore, a High Specific Power RadioisotopeElectric Propulsion System

FarView Observatory – A Large, In-Situ Manufactured, Lunar Far Side Radio Array

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Silent, Solid-State Propulsion for Advanced Air Mobility Vehicles

Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars

There’s an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. This supermassive black hole, weighing as much as…

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NASA’s Webb Scores Another Ringed World with New Image of Uranus

Following in the footsteps of the Neptune image released in 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system’s other ice giant, the planet Uranus. The new image features dramatic rings as well as…