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NASA aerospace engineer John Houbolt explains Lunar Orbital Rendezvous at a blackboard that illustrates the escape weights of the proposal. Credit: NASA
The Science Behind Managing Stress in High-Stakes Conversations
June 26, 2025 // by

Understanding how pressure impacts performance can yield better decisions.

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Astronauts Thomas Stafford (right) and Eugene Cernan wave to the crowd aboard the aircraft carrier USS Wasp as they emerge from their Gemini-IX-A capsule on June 6, 1966. John C. Stonesifer (far right), with the Manned Spacecraft Center’s Landing and Recovery Division, was onboard to greet the astronauts. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: Gemini IX-A Overcomes
June 13, 2025 // by

Astronauts struggled with EVA unit and docking target during three-day mission overshadowed by pre-launch accident.

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This artist's illustration shows the sky crane maneuver that delivered NASA's Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars in 2012, concluding what is known as the “seven minutes of terror”—the nail-biting descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Credit: NASA
NASA’s Robust Risk Management Approach Enables Engineers to Address Challenges
June 2, 2025 // by

Continuous, integrated risk management process enables NASA to develop missions with complex, state-of-the-art engineering systems designed to achieve ambitious science objectives. 

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These dark streaks, also known as "slope streaks," are in an area of Mars known as Acheron Fossae. The source of these features is a topic of a recent machine learning research project. Credit: NASA
New Study Uses AI to Examine Dark Streaks on Mars
May 28, 2025 // by

Researchers cross-check curious features with temperature, geological features, and wind speed data to check key theory. 

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An artist's concept of NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA
Parker Solar Probe Making Closest Passes to the Sun
May 23, 2025 // by

Team wins prestigious award for mission that has rewritten scientific understanding of solar processes. 

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This photograph of Skylab, taken by the final crew to live and work there, shows the parasol sunshade that was deployed by the first crew to protect the orbiting workshop from the Sun and lower the internal temperature. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: Skylab Takes Shape
May 9, 2025 // by

Debates about what would follow the Moon landing lead to the development of NASA’s first space station.

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The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby on April 20, 2025. The spacecraft’s closest approach distance was 600 miles. The image has been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab
NASA Spacecraft Takes Images of Asteroid
April 25, 2025 // by

50 years after Donald Johanson makes pivotal discovery of Lucy skeleton, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft studies Donaldjohanson.

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NASA’s PUNCH Mission Will Look for Clues about the Solar Wind
April 18, 2025 // by

Four satellites will work together to create detailed images of the Sun’s corona seeking insight into how the solar wind forms.

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NASA astronaut F. Story Musgrave, STS-6 mission specialist, performs the first Extra Vehicular Activity of the Space Shuttle era in the payload bay of Challenger. Also on the EVA, but out of the frame here, was Donald Peterson. NASA astronaut Karol J. Bobko, pilot, took photographs through the aft flight deck windows. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: STS-6 was a Mission of Firsts
April 10, 2025 // by

First flight of Challenger includes the first spacewalk of the shuttle program and an important test of a new generation of spacesuits.

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