This week, John W. “Jack” Boyd retired from NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley,…
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New Data Product Warns Alaska Pilots of Clouds, Dangerously Cold Weather
A new product that alerts pilots to clouds, icy conditions and dangerously cold temperatures is tapping…
Wildfires Increase in California and NASA's Terra Satellite Captures the Scene
Smoke spills off the California coast and travels almost 600 miles in NASAs Terra satellite image…
ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/19/2020
Payloads Multi-Purpose Experiment Platform (MPEP): The crew removed the Handhold Experiment Platform adapter from the MPEP…
NASA's Webb to Study Quasars and Their Host Galaxies in Three Dimensions
Shortly after the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists plan to study the effect…
NASA Is Developing an All-Electric X-57 X-Plane: A Cleaner Way to Fly
We’re celebrating National Aviation Day! After all, we are the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Aviation…
An Elite Team of Pilots Led Flight Research at NACA’s Cleveland Lab
NACA had a remarkable corps of research pilots in the 1940s. Click here for…
ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/18/2020
Payloads Astrobee: The crew powered up the Astrobee free flyers and cleared away and stowed items…
NASA Study Maps the Roots of Global Mangrove Loss
Using high-resolution data from the joint NASA-U.S. Geological Survey Landsat program, researchers have created the first…
Citizen Scientists Discover Dozens of New Cosmic Neighbors in NASA Data
We’ve never met some of the Sun’s closest neighbors until now. In a new study, astronomers…