During Artemis I, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will send the agency’s Orion spacecraft on a trek 40,000 miles beyond the Moon before returning to Earth. To capture the journey, the rocket and spacecraft are equipped with cameras that will collect valuable engineering data and share a unique perspective of humanity’s return to the Moon.
US Postal Service Celebrates NASA’s Webb Telescope With New Stamp
The U.S. Postal Service will issue a stamp highlighting NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on Sept. 8, 2022. U.S. Postal Service Art Director Derry Noyes designed the stamp using existing art by James Vaughan and an image provided by NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Credits: U.S. Postal Service
NASA, Partners Offer Global View of Environmental Changes
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Continuing the collaboration that produced the COVID-19 Earth Observing Dashboard in 2020, NASA and its international partners in Europe and Japan have combined the collective scientific power of their Earth-observing satellite data in expanding the online resource to document a broad array of planet-wide changes in the environment and human society.
NASA’s Webb Telescope Launches to See First Galaxies, Distant Worlds
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25, 2021 — NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America.
NASA’s Mars Helicopter to Make First Flight Attempt Sunday
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
Touchdown! NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2021 — The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST).
NASA Discoveries, R&D, Moon to Mars Exploration Plans Persevere in 2020
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2020— In 2020, NASA made significant progress on America’s Moon to Mars exploration strategy, met mission objectives for the Artemis program, achieved significant scientific advancements to benefit humanity, and returned human spaceflight capabilities to the United States, all while agency teams acted quickly to assist the national COVID-19 response.
NASA Invites Public to Participate in Virtual “Getting to Know Goddard” Artemis Discussion
GREENBELT, Md., Nov. 24, 2020 — As part of the Artemis program, NASA will use innovative new technologies and systems to explore more of the Moon than ever before. The public is invited to learn more about NASA’s 21st century lunar exploration program in the next live “Getting to Know Goddard” session. The event will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 1, […]
NASA Seeks New Partners to Help Put All Eyes on Artemis Moon Missions
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2020 — NASA is seeking new partners to help the agency tell the story of human exploration at the Moon with the Artemis program in ways that engage, excite, and inspire a worldwide audience. Through the end of this decade, NASA will explore more of the lunar surface than ever before and will establish a sustainable human […]
Quantum Spatial Completes Data Collection for NOAA’s Largest Coastal Mapping Project
Unique Combination of Sensors Used to Gather High Resolution Topographic and Bathymetric Lidar Data Along 12,000 Square Miles of Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast Areas Not Surveyed Since Civil War Era
