ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/20/2021

Payloads Astrobee:  The crew unpacked and visually inspected the Queen Bee Astrobee Free Flyer components.  The…

NASA’s Artemis Rover to Land Near Nobile Region of Moon’s South Pole

In 2023, NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will land near the western edge of…

60 Years Ago: NASA Selects Houston as Site for New Manned Spacecraft Center

On May 25, 1961, in a speech before a Joint Session of Congress, President John F.…

Baffin Bay, Greenland: A Historical Perspective

Acquired by the Landsat 7 satellite more than 20 years ago on Sept. 3, 2000, this…

Lunar Crater Named After Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson by International Astronomical Union, Accepting NASA/LPI Proposal

The International Astronomical Union has named a crater at the Moon’s south pole after the Arctic…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/17/2021

Payloads Behavioral Core Measures (BCM): The crew set up the appropriate robotics hardware and performed the…

Stennis Space Center Test Team Overcomes Green Run Challenges

No one may have verbalized it as such, but members of the Green Run test team…

Taking the Temperature of Earth

Kerry Cawse-Nicholson from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory describes the ECOSTRESS experiment aboard the space station that…

Hubble Takes a Closer Look at its 31st Anniversary Image

This comparison of two images shows puffing dust bubbles and an erupting gas shell – the…

PIA24532: Hurricane Nicholas Before and After Landfall

           Target: Earth Mission:  Aqua Instrument:  AIRS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Click here for original…