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With Artemis II, NASA is taking the science of living and working in space beyond low Earth orbit. While the test flight will help confirm the systems and hardware needed for human deep space exploration, the crew also will be serving as both scientists and volunteer research subjects, completing a suite of experiments that will allow NASA to better understand …

The birth of an island is normally a process that requires the movement of vast tectonic plates over centuries, if not millennia. But in Alaska, a new island has popped up in just four decades. The two-square-mile (five sq km) landmass, known as Prow Knob, was once entirely surrounded by the deep ice of the Alsek Glacier. But NASA has revealed …

NASA’s interim leader Sean Duffy didn’t make it through a single sentence in his announcement that the agency’s Mars Perseverance rover had spotted “potential biosignatures” on the Red Planet last year without sucking up to president Donald Trump. While we’re still far from a definitive conclusion about current or ancient life on Mars, it was an exciting finding, with a …

Laid Off With Honor At NASA  NASA Watch Source link

NASA’s acting administrator is pushing back against recent claims that the agency is losing ground to China in the race back to the moon. Sean Duffy addressed employees in an internal NASA town hall last week, just one day after Senate testimony suggested that China may land astronauts at the lunar south pole before the U.S. does so. “I’ll be …

Internal JSC Workforce Chart  NASA Watch Source link

Internal KSC Workforce Chart  NASA Watch Source link

NASA has certified a new lander flight training course using helicopters, marking a key milestone in crew training for Artemis missions to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will explore the lunar South Pole, paving the way for human exploration farther into the solar system, including Mars.  The mountains in northern Colorado offer similar visual illusions and flight environments to the …

A fireball streaks across the morning sky above NSF Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Dai A rare display of “shooting stars” may grace the night sky this weekend as a newly found meteor shower suddenly peaks. The Chi Cygnids meteor shower occurs in mid-September every year, but …

An exciting discovery on Mars is being overshadowed by turmoil at NASA, with budget cuts threatening to destroy a scientific legacy that has been built over decades. Yesterday, the agency shared a finding, published in Nature, of potential biosignatures identified by the Mars Perseverance rover in a 3.5 billion-year-old rock. “This very well could be the clearest sign of life …