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Our SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Safely Returns to Earth on This Week @NASA – September 8, 2023

Students from North Carolina and Rhode Island will have separate opportunities next week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station.View the full article

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission will discuss their six-month science mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 2:15 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 12, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.View the full article

After splashing down safely in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida early Monday morning, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 completed the agency’s sixth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station. The international crew of four spent 186 days in orbit.View the full article

NASA will provide coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission return to Earth from the International Space Station, beginning with hatch closure coverage live at 5 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Sept. 3.View the full article

A New Crew Heads to the Space Station on This Week @NASA – September 1, 2023

NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Splashes Down (Official NASA Broadcast)

NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 6, to discuss the agency’s upcoming Psyche mission, which will be its first to visit a metal-rich asteroid. Riding along with Psyche is a laser transceiver for NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration.View the full article

Students from Georgia and Texas will have separate opportunities next week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.View the full article

A team led by NASA in Utah’s West Desert is in the final stages of preparing for the arrival of the first U.S. asteroid sample – slated to land on Earth in September.View the full article

NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded four contracts to conduct NOAA’s Sounder for Microwave-Based Applications (SMBA) Phase-A study.View the full article

Guy Bluford, First African American in Space: 40 Years of Inspiration

OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission Overview (Official NASA Briefing)

The Science of NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Mission

La NASA ha lanzado un nuevo sitio web en español para invitar al público a enviar sus nombres a bordo de Europa Clipper, una misión que iniciará su viaje a la luna de Júpiter Europa en octubre de 2024. Este nuevo sitio web forma parte de una campaña de la agencia llamada “Mensaje en una botella”, mediante la cual un poema original dedicado a EuropaView the full article

The Ring of Fire: 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse (Official NASA Broadcast)

Watch the "Ring of Fire" Solar Eclipse (NASA Broadcast Trailer)

An international crew of four representing four countries is in orbit following a successful launch to the International Space Station at 3:27 a.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 26, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The agency’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh commercial crew rotation mission for NASA.View the full article

Our Webb Space Telescope Captures a Cosmic Ring on This Week @NASA – August 25, 2023

Education and community organizations can apply to receive a living piece of spaceflight history to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a seedling grown from a tree seed that flew around the Moon on the NASA’s Artemis I mission in late 2022.View the full article

On Thursday, NASA released the first data maps from its new instrument launched to space earlier this year, which now is successfully transmitting information about major air pollutants over North America.View the full article

Where Are the Moon Rocks? We Asked a NASA Expert

NASA Science Live: Psyche’s Journey to a Metal World (Official NASA Broadcast)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Mission to the Space Station (Official Trailer)

Find out why July 2023 was a record-breaking month on This Week @NASA – August 18, 2023