NASA Announces its Artemis II Backup Crew Member for Moon Mission *JUL 03, 2024* *RELEASE 24-092* NASA astronaut Andre Douglas poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as its backup crew member for the agency’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign. Douglas will train alongside NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2024 Jul 03 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 185 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Jul 2024 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3721 N26W67 026 0020 Hax 02 02 Alpha 3722 S12W70 029 0060 Hsx ...Continue Reading

July 2, 2024 Weekly News Latest Images of the Dayview the archive Since publishing NASA Earth Observatory Goes to the Beach in July 2017, we have explored even more of the planet’s coasts via satellite images and astronaut photographs. During this first week of July, the Earth Observatory is returning to the beach with a look back at some of our favorite seaside stories published in recent years. NASA ...Continue Reading

July 2, 2024    *ADVISORY: M24-087***   *Volunteer Crew to Exit NASA’s Simulated Mars Habitat After 378 Days * The first CHAPEA mission crew members who have been living and working inside NASA’s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission are set to exit their ground-based home on Saturday, July 6.   The four volunteers who have been living and working inside NASA’s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission are set to exit their gro ...Continue Reading

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Space Telescope Mission *JUL 02, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-026* Credits: NASA NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) mission. The firm-fixed-price contract has a value of approximately $69 million, which includes launch services and other mission related costs. The COSI mission currently is targeted to launch August 2027 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 ro ...Continue Reading

July 2, 2024 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-090* *NASA’s Boeing Test Flight Crew to Discuss Starliner Mission from Space*** * * NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts (from top) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and the Starliner spacecraft (Credits: NASA). Media are invited to hear from NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts discussing their miss ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2024 Jul 02 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 184 Issued at 0030Z on 02 Jul 2024 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 01 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 01/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3719 S17W94 066 0090 Hax 02 01 Alpha 3721 N26W55 027 0060 Hax ...Continue Reading

July 1, 2024 Natural Events Latest Images From the Past 7 Daysview archive of natural events Hurricane Beryl Hurtles into the Caribbean The powerful Category 4 storm made landfall in the Grenadine Islands on July 1. (Jul 1, 2024) Home Reef Volcano Grows Plumes of volcanic material traveled by air and by sea as the small Pacific island erupted in Ju ...Continue Reading

July 1, 2024 Natural Events Latest Images From the Past 3 Daysview archive of natural events Hurricane Beryl Hurtles into the Caribbean The powerful Category 4 storm made landfall in the Grenadine Islands on July 1. (Jul 1, 2024) NASA | 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771 Unsubscribe nasa_reports@aus-city.com Update Profile | ...Continue Reading

NASA Awards Support STEM Research at Minority Serving Institutions *JUL 01, 2024* *RELEASE 24-091* A photo of MPLAN principal investigator awardees from various minority-serving institutions at the 2023 NASA Better Together conference in San Jose, California. Credits: NASA NASA has selected 23 minority-serving institutions to receive $1.2 million to grow their research and technology capabilities, collaborate on research projects, and contribute to the agency’s missions for the benefit of humanity. Through NASA’s ...Continue Reading