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  • NASA Flies Through a Volcanic Laboratory: Rincón de la Vieja 

    A man in an orange jacket and black pants stands in a field of tan and green grass, looking at a small gray fixed-wing aircraft with a yellow nose cone, sitting on a silver launcher. In this composite image, the aircraft is pictured again and again across the sky, moving away from the camera. In the background is a blueish mountain and cloudy skies.

    An ecologist, a volcanologist, and a chemist walk into a forest… it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but this very real collaboration between scientists from NASA and the Universidad de Costa Rica (University of Costa Rica) continues decades of cross-disciplinary work that is currently providing insight into the future of the planet.

  • NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Proceeds Toward Launch

    NASA and SpaceX teams completed the final major review – the Launch Readiness Review – for the agency’s Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station, with mission leaders polling “go” to proceed into the launch countdown pending weather along the ascent corridor.

  • NASA’s Swift Mission Transitions Ops to Prep for Orbit Boost

    The Swift spacecraft in space.

    NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory temporarily suspended most science operations in an effort to reduce atmospheric drag and slow the spacecraft’s orbital decay. Halting these activities will enable controllers to keep the spacecraft in an orientation that minimizes drag effects, extending its time in orbit in anticipation of a reboost mission.

  • NASA, SpaceX Target Friday for Crew-12 Launch Due to Weather

    NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than 5:15 a.m. EST, Friday, Feb. 13, for launch of the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Mission teams completed a weather review Tuesday morning and have waived off the Thursday, Feb. 12, launch opportunity due to forecast […]

  • NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Completes Dry Dress Rehearsal

    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew members achieved a critical prelaunch milestone by completing their dry dress rehearsal at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev practiced launch day operations, including suiting up, traveling to the pad, and boarding […]