On July 19, 2024, NASA officially named Johnson Space Center’s building 12 the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo.” A portrait of Dorothy
This portrait was hand-painted by Eliza Hoffman, an accomplished artist who is also
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live on Mars is being used to address an immediate need here on Earth and produce hand
About a dozen technicians and engineers from Exploration Ground Systems worked together recently at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to carry out the first step in stacking the twin solid rocket boosters that help launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the first Artemis lunar mission. Inside the Florida spaceport’s Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility, the NASA and Jacobs team completed a pin. …
spaceflight technician, both with Jacobs, complete the first mate pinning of the right-hand
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Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter Stacked for Artemis I Moon Rocket MSH 15-52: Cosmic Hand
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Meeting As NASA prepares to send astronauts to explore the Moon and Mars, working hand-in-hand
Payloads EarthKAM (Sally Ride Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle Schools): The crew deployed the Camera hardware in Node 2. EarthKAM allows thousands of students to photograph and examine Earth from a space crew’s perspective. Using the Internet, the students control a special digital camera mounted on-board the ISS. This enables them to photograph the Earth’s …
Dynamics Skills Trainer (DST) that simulates robotics operations with using SSRMS hand
Four Expedition 59 astronauts spent Friday investigating a multitude of space biology phenomena while two cosmonauts continued preparing for an upcoming spacewalk. International Space Station hardware is also ready for return to Earth inside the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship. The crew is exploring how space impacts a variety of microscopic physiological processes today to get …
Research as Crew Looks to Next Spacewalk The Canadarm2 robotic arm with its robotic hand
NASA and SpaceX now are targeting Saturday, Nov. 14, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station. Managers of the Crew-1 mission held a media briefing on Oct. 28, to discuss the upcoming launch, including results from recent testing of the Falcon 9 Merlin engines following unexpected data SpaceX noted …
“We’ve been working hand-in-hand with SpaceX to work through this engine anomaly,
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): The CFT crew completed the Fluid System Servicer (FSS) Refill of the LAB and COL Low Temperature Loop (LTL) Pump Package Assembly (PPA) Accumulators. The CFT crew also continued assisting the ISS crew in Cygnus Cargo Transfer operations. Payloads: Hicari-II: Sample (S/N 010) was separated from the Hicari-II cartridge …
Surface Avatar robot control terminal hardware and performed a checkout on both hand-controllers
Three seconds — that’s how long it took communication to travel from Virginia, through the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston,
Students from the group, From One Hand To Another, pose with First Lady of Virginia
