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Breaking News-
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4634-4635: A Waiting Game
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:22:47 +0000Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS Team Member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth Planning Date: Monday, Aug. 18, 2025 The downlink data from our weekend activities arrived on Earth as we started planning this morning. As the APXS payload uplink and downlink lead, I assess the downlink data to ensure that our […]
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4631-4633: Radiant Ridge Revolution
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:40:46 +0000Written by Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 Today we uplinked a three-sol weekend plan with lots of exciting activities — to support both the science and engineering teams! While usually our science activities take front and center stage, we often also do engineering […]
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Sun at the Center: Teacher Ambassadors Bring Heliophysics to Classrooms Nationwide
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:46:56 +0000For the fourth year in a row, the American Association of Physics Teachers, a collaborator on the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (HEAT), selected eight new educators to serve as ambassadors for heliophysics education. Meeting in Boulder, CO, from July 14-17, 2025, these teachers met to work through AAPT’s lessons that bring physics content to […]
On the Station-
Moonlight and Our Atmosphere
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:51:32 +0000The Moon’s light is refracted by Earth’s atmosphere in this April 13, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited into a sunset 264 miles above the border between Bolivia and Brazil in South America. Understanding the Moon helps us understand other planets, how they have evolved and the processes which have shaped […]
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NASA Sets Coverage for SpaceX 33rd Station Resupply Launch, Arrival
Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:50:17 +0000NASA and SpaceX are targeting 2:45 a.m. EDT, Sunday, Aug. 24, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory for NASA. Filled with more than 5,000 pounds of supplies, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on […]
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Station Nation: Meet Tess Caswell, Extravehicular Activity Flight Controller and Lead Capsule Communicator
Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:38:40 +0000Tess Caswell supports the International Space Station from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston as a capsule communicator, or capcom, and helps plan and train for future spacewalks with the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) team in the Flight Operations Directorate. She is currently on rotation as the Artemis lead capcom, helping to develop training and processes […]
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NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman CRS-23 Station Resupply Launch
Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:51:11 +0000Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. A Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft will launch to the orbital laboratory on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for NASA. The mission is known as NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 23, or Northrop Grumman […]
