Ahead of Crew Return, NASA’s Crew-9 Concludes Science Mission
Original Publication Date: 2025-03-06 16:28
SpaceX’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission with agency astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov is preparing to return to Earth. Hague, Williams, and Wilmore completed more than 900 hours of research between more than 150 unique scientific experiments.
What You Need to Know about NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission
Original Publication Date: 2025-03-06 14:17
Four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission. The flight is the 10th crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station, and the 11th human spaceflight as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos, NASA Astronauts Nichole Ayers, and Anne McClain, commander, along with Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi from JAXA.
Hubble Spies a Spiral in the Water Snake
Original Publication Date: 2025-03-07 08:21
NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake) Hubble observed NGC 5042 in six wavelength bands from the ultraviolet to infrared to create this multicolored portrait. The galaxy’s cream-colored center is packed with ancient stars, and its spiral arms are decorated with patches of young, blue stars.
Faces of Leadership: The Directors of JPL
JPL Director, 2001-2016 Charles Elachi was born in Lebanon and received a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Grenoble, France. He received a master's degree (1969) and doctorate (1971) in electrical sciences from Caltech. He also earned a master's in business administration (1978) from USC and a master's in geology (1983) from UCLA.
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Cosmic Mapmaker: NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Ready to Launch
SPHEREx will separate infrared light emitted by hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies into 102 individual colors. No other all-sky survey has performed spectroscopy in so many wavelengths and on so many sources. The mission’s all-sky spectroscopic map can be used for a wide variety of science investigations.
NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 remain the most distant human-made objects ever built. Voyager 1 reached the edge of the heliosphere and the beginning of interstellar space in 2012; Voyager 2 reached the boundary in 2018. No other human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar space.