09 August 2021
NASA is seeking applicants for yearlong simulated Mars mission
... and exchanging communications. The results will provide important scientific data to validate systems and develop solutions. NASA is looking for healthy, motivated U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are non-smokers, age 30 to 55 years old, and...
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. ...
16 December 2021
NASA delays launch of JWST
... of the James Webb space telescope scheduled for 22 December won't take place before 24 December, NASA announced on Wednesday. The NASA project that began development in 1996, was originally expected to deploy in the early 2000s. However, multiple...
22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
...science discovery,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “These are ...our solar system today.” At the same announcement, NASA also advised that two mission concepts will receive technology...
26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
...yesterday with the help of a European Ariane 5 rocket, NASA launched a satellite that is hosting its Global-scale Observations...," added Elsayed Talaat, heliophysics chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We anticipate GOLD will give...
