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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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March 2025 INSIGHT Now Available
March 31, 2025 // by

Don’t miss the latest issue of INSIGHT, APPEL Knowledge Services’ online publication featuring our new podcast episodes, columns, articles, lessons learned and more. We invite you to read it today on our website.

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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, seen here encapsulated inside a SpaceX rocket fairing before launch, landed on the Moon on March 2, and returned high-definition images of the lunar surface, an eclipse, and a lunar sunset. The images could help find the cause of an unusual glow observed by NASA’s Apollo astronauts. Credit: SpaceX
Scientists Examine New Data on Unusual Glow
March 31, 2025 // by

CLPS Blue Ghost mission delivers high-definition images of sunset from the lunar surface.

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NASA’s SPHEREx observatory, shown here in a clean room after environmental testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in late 2024, launched on March 11, 2025. The team is preparing the telescope to begin gathering sweeping data that could help answer fundamental questions about the history of the Universe. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems
SPHEREx Will Map Night Sky on Grand Scale
March 26, 2025 // by

Compact infrared telescope will look for evidence of cosmic inflation and ice in the Milky Way. 

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A Mercury capsule is mounted inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel for a test of its escape tower rockets at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: The X-Plane that Became a Capsule
March 14, 2025 // by

Maxime Faget built on groundbreaking work by H. Julian Allen to shape the future of NASA space exploration.  

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The wall of this 3D printed aluminum rocket engine nozzle is actually hollow, filled with tiny channels that the cryogenic fuel flows through to cool the nozzle. Credit: NASA
February 2025 INSIGHT Now Available
February 28, 2025 // by

Don’t miss the latest issue of INSIGHT, APPEL Knowledge Services’ online publication featuring our new podcast episodes, columns, articles, lessons learned and more. We invite you to read it today on our website.

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The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, in Utah. The sample sealed inside has surprised scientist who have only begun to analyze it. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber
Historic OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Holds Surprises
February 27, 2025 // by

The parent of Bennu was deep in the solar system, held many of the building blocks of life, and likely contained salty brines below the surface. 

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