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NASA’s design labs are where engineers develop concepts for missions and ideas for scientific instruments.

Flying air taxis? NASA is working on it with the Air Mobility Pathfinders Project.

Every spacecraft needs a good blanket — one that can withstand the extreme cold, the Sun’s intense radiation, and impacts from micrometeoroids. At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Paula Cain is one of the skilled hands behind these essential layers of protection.

NASA’s annual Day of Remembrance pays tribute to all members of the NASA family who lost their lives in the pursuit of exploration and discovery, including test pilots, the Apollo 1 crew, and the crews of space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.

In 2024, NASA pushed the limits of exploration for the benefits of humanity.

NISAR, a new satellite mission developed by NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), will continuously scan the globe, tracking changes to Earth’s surface and providing insights that could help efforts to mitigate risks to dams, levees, bridges, and other critical infrastructure.

This time-lapse covers one tiny part of the intricate dance that all of Roman’s systems have been working their way through on their path to joining together as the complete observatory.

In this documentary film, follow along with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team, as they launch a spacecraft to an asteroid, collect a sample of Bennu, and bring it home to Earth.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is getting ready for launch, and its massive solar arrays were recently installed.