Human Spaceflight Hazards HRP Home Hazards Overview The Five Hazards Space Radiation Isolation & Confinement Distance from Earth Gravity Fields Hostile/Closed Environments Risks Overview Ongoing HRP Research Risks of Human Spaceflight NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) seeks to understand specific risks associated with the hazards of human spaceflight. Learn moreContinue Reading
Office of Small Business Programs OSBP Home Doing Business with NASA Learning Series Webinars Archived Webinars Outreach Events NASA Vendor Database More Resource Links Publications Highlights OSBP Engagement 2026: L.I.F.T. Leveraging Industry and Supply Chains for Future Technology Leveraging Industry and Supply Chains for Future Technology September 15, 2026 •Continue Reading
NASA/Michael Rushing Light shines onto a solar concentrator being tested in this Aug. 7, 2025, photo. The concentrator is part of the Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project, which aims to produce oxygen from simulated lunar regolith for use at the Moon’s south pole. For this test, the team integrated theContinue Reading
Cosmic Origins … Cosmic Origins Community Cosmic Origins Special… About Community Executive Committee Science Groups News & Events Cosmic Pathfinders Early Career Workshop Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources Cosmic Origins Special Announcement 27 February 2026 A very well-deserved Congratulations to our very own Shouleh Nikzad for beingContinue Reading
Expedition 74 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Chris Williams, both NASA astronauts, collect frozen research samples from inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. The samples were stowed inside science freezers aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for retrieval and analysis on Earth. ESA/Sophie Adenot A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft hasContinue Reading
A graphic illustrating NASA’s increased cadence of Artemis missions. NASA As part of a Golden Age of exploration and discovery, NASA announced Friday, Feb. 27, the agency is increasing its cadence of missions under the Artemis program to achieve the national objective of returning American astronauts to the Moon and establishing anContinue Reading
5 Min Read NASA’s Home for Experimental Flight Advances Aeronautics Mission NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s ER-2 aircraft taxis at Edwards, California, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, ahead of a high-altitude mission supporting the Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx), which requires flights of up to eight hours at approximately 65,000Continue Reading
After decades of recovery from commercial whaling, climate change is now threatening the whales’ future. By Teresa Tomassoni Southern right whales—once driven to near-extinction by industrial hunting in the 19th and 20th centuries—have long been regarded as a conservation success. After the International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in theContinue Reading
NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, carrying the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft, arrives Feb. 25, 2026, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to troubleshoot the flow of helium to the rocket’s upper stage, the interim cryogenic propulsion stage. OnceContinue Reading
Official insignia of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA At 11:44 p.m. PST, the unpiloted SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the coast of California, marking the return of the company’s 33rd Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Loaded with thousands of pounds ofContinue Reading
From Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars, explore the world of human spaceflight with NASA each week on the official podcast of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Listen to in-depth conversations with the astronauts, scientists and engineers who make it possible. On Episode 413, NASA’s International SpaceContinue Reading
As climate change accelerates, local experts say the date Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota freezes over is getting later, making safe conditions for activities that rely on snow and ice harder to predict. (Image credit: Kayla Wolf for NPR)Continue Reading
Baby dinosaurs weren’t coddled like lion cubs or elephant calves—they were more like prehistoric latchkey kids. New research suggests that young dinosaurs quickly struck out on their own, forming kid-only groups and surviving without much parental help, while their massive parents lived entirely different lives. Because juveniles and adults ateContinue Reading