02 April 2020
Thousands Apply to Join NASA’s Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut
...are excited to start reviewing astronaut applications to identify the next class of astronaut candidates.” Since the 1960s, NASA has selected 350 people to train as astronaut candidates for its increasingly challenging missions to explore space. With...
29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
... the solar sail during and after deployment. "I'm tremendously proud and excited that NanoAvionics will be part of NASA's effort to validate a new beam-powered propulsion system, eventually leading to more marvelous deep-space missions following...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
..., and hydraulic systems. “Today is a great day for NASA, Stennis and this nation’s human space exploration program. This ...solid rocket boosters and other parts of the rocket and NASA’s Orion spacecraft on the mobile launcher inside the Vehicle ...
04 May 2021
New NASA Administrator sworn in
... by Charles F. Bolden, who served as administrator from 2009 to 2017. Nelson’s family and Pam Melroy, nominee for NASA deputy administrator, were guests at the ceremony. “I was glad to be joined today by my rock, my wife, Grace, my children, deputy...
24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
... of its two, 28-foot-long, roll-out solar arrays. They will power both the spacecraft and NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster – Commercial ion engine, one of several technologies being tested on DART for future application...
10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
...understanding of the universe for years to come. Each NASA spacecraft is carefully chosen to target brand new observations enabling...,” said Martin Weisskopf, IXPE’s principal investigator at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. ...
