While attending the Paris Air Show June 16, NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro signed an agreement with DLR (German Aerospace Center, or Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) to continue a partnership in space medicine research. This renewed collaboration builds on previous radiation mitigation efforts for human spaceflight. As NASA advances the Trump-Vance Administration’s goals […]
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A New Hybrid System Could Enable Spacecraft Attitude Control Systems to Perform Scientific Measurements
A NASA-sponsored team is creating a new approach to measure magnetic fields by developing a new system that can both take scientific measurements and provide spacecraft attitude control functions. This new system is small, lightweight, and can be accommodated onboard the spacecraft, eliminating the need for the boom structure that is typically required to measure […]
A Researcher’s Guide to: Microgravity Materials Research
June 2025 Edition Most materials are formed from a partially or totally fluid sample, and the transport of heat and mass from the fluid into the solid during solidification inherently influences the formation of the material and its resultant properties. The ISS provides a long-duration microgravity environment for conducting experiments that enables researchers to examine […]
Improper Maintenance? How A Dramatic Boeing 737-800 Engine Fire Began
On March 13th, 2025 you may have seen these dramatic images and video circulating on social media and television: Passengers on one side of an American Airlines Boeing 737-800 huddling on the jet’s wing, while smoke billowed from the other side. The NTSB – or National Transportation Safety Board of the United States has released its preliminary report and here’s what it found…