Station Nation: Meet Tess Caswell, Extravehicular Activity Flight Controller and Lead Capsule Communicator
Tess Caswell supports the International Space Station from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston as a capsule communicator, or capcom,…
Tag: Artemis
NASA, Army National Guard Partner on Flight Training for Moon Landing
By Corinne BeckingerWhen Artemis astronauts land on the Moon’s South Pole in a commercial human landing system, they will encounter…
Human Rating and NASA-STD-3001 – NASA
Human-rating is a critical certification process that validates the safety, reliability, and suitability of space systems—including orbiters, launch vehicles, rovers, spacesuits,…
NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in Minnesota
NASA astronauts Michael Finke and Zena Cardman will connect with students in Minnesota as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering,…
NASA Seeks Industry Feedback on Fission Surface Power
As part of the agency’s initiative to return humanity to the Moon and eventually send the first astronaut – an…
NASA’s Apollo Samples, LRO Help Scientists Predict Moonquakes
As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the surface of the Moon’s south polar region for the first time ever…
NASA’s Apollo Samples, LRO Help Scientists Forecast Moonquakes
Editor’s Note: The headline of this article was updated on August 14 to to clarify the nature of the moonquake…
NASA Awards Firefly $177M for 2029 Mission to Deliver Rovers to Moon’s South Pole
NASA’s $176.7 million for Firefly is funding a contract to deliver two rovers and three science instruments to the south…
Mark Cavanaugh: Integrating Safety into the Orion Spacecraft
Before astronauts venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the agency’s first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo, Mark…
Looking Forward to the Moon
On May 8, 2022, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems’ Program Manager Shawn Quinn captured this crop of a full frame image…