NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei poses for a photo on Feb. 10, 2022, while configuring the Combustion Integrated Rack in the U.S. Destiny laboratory module of the International Space Station to support a pair of fire safety experiments. Credits: NASA Editor’s Note: This advisory was… Read more“NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Record-Setting US Astronaut Return”
Update: NASA Plans Coverage of Webb Space Telescope Deployments
Thousands of parts must work correctly, in sequence, to unfold NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope into its final configuration, all while it flies to a destination nearly 1 million miles away.Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated Dec. 30 to reflect the addition of a media teleconference after Webb’s… Read more“Update: NASA Plans Coverage of Webb Space Telescope Deployments”
NASA and Boeing Progress Toward July Launch of Second Starliner Flight Test
Technicians prepare Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner for the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) in the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 2, 2021. Part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, OFT-2 is a critical developmental milestone on the company’s path to fly… Read more“NASA and Boeing Progress Toward July Launch of Second Starliner Flight Test”
Distant Planet May Be On Its Second Atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble Finds
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star may have lost its atmosphere but gained a second one through volcanic activity. The planet, GJ 1132 b, is hypothesized to have begun as a gaseous world with a thick hydrogen blanket of atmosphere…. Read more“Distant Planet May Be On Its Second Atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble Finds”
Asteroid 2001 FO32 Will Safely Pass by Earth March 21
This photo shows the view from inside the dome of NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility during a night of observing. The 3.2-meter (10.5-foot) telescope atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea will be used to measure the infrared spectrum of asteroid 2001 FO32.Credits: UH/IfA The interplanetary interloper won’t come closer than 1.25 million miles… Read more“Asteroid 2001 FO32 Will Safely Pass by Earth March 21”
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Prepared for Launch
This illustration shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s nose cone, with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite inside, shortly before launch.Credits: NASA/JPL-CaltechSpaceX More About the Mission Launch Press Kit Image Gallery STEM lessons: launches, Earth satellites, and sea level rise The newest satellite to monitor global sea level is ready for… Read more“Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Prepared for Launch”
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Unlocks More Secrets from Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission now knows much more about the material it’ll be collecting in just a few weeks. In a special collection of six papers published today in the journals Science and Science Advances, scientists on the OSIRIS-REx mission present new findings on asteroid Bennu’s surface material, geological characteristics, and… Read more“NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Unlocks More Secrets from Asteroid Bennu”