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President Joe Biden  arrived  in California’s Silicon Valley on Tuesday,  Sept. 26, 2023, where he was welcomed by  Dr. David Korsmeyer,...
U.S. President Joe Biden stands on the tarmac with Acting Deputy Center Director Dr. David Korsmeyer, and Santa Clara County Supervisor, District 4, Susan Ellenberg.
The BioSentinel spacecraft enters a heliocentric orbit. BioSentinel will detect and measure the impact of space radiation on living organisms...
Illustration of the BioSentinel spacecraft with its four solar arrays deployed, facing the Sun. The Milky Way is seen in the background.
NASA Tests Mobile Air Traffic Kit During Wildfire Prevention Operations
NASA researchers test a mobile air traffic kit for remotely operated Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in DeSoto National Forest in Mississippi. The mobile air traffic is being developed for use in wildfire operations.
A quartet of CubeSats will show off their moves in a sort of orbital line dance when NASA’s Starling mission...
Two team members load a spacecraft into a CubeSat dispenser in a cleanroom. Two other team members observe.
A view looking into the hangar where NASA's X-59 is parked.
A view looking into the hangar where NASA's X-59 is parked.
Center director at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Dr. Eugene Tu (left), greets President Joe Biden upon his arrival aboard Air...
Center director at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Dr. Eugene Tu (left), greets President Joe Biden upon his arrival aboard Air Force One at Moffett Federal Airfield, located at Ames, on Monday, June 19, 2023.
NASA Partners With Airlines to Save Fuel, Reduce Flight Delays
Computer screens at the Southwest Airlines Network Operations Control Center in Dallas, Texas, display NASA's Digital Information Platform Collaborative Digital Departure Reroute (CDDR) tool.
Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted by NASA’s Ames Research Center Director Eugene Tu and elected officials, after arriving in...
A man and a woman shake hands in front of a small group of people standing outside a plane with stairs descending from its open door.
The CAPSTONE small satellite successfully tested a navigation technology akin to Earth’s GPS for the first time in May, advancing...
An image of the Moon that curves through the middle of the image, with the cratered lunar surface in the lower left half of the image and the black of space in the upper right half.
An instrument capable of helping locate water under the lunar surface has arrived at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston,...
A person with blue gloves, a lab suit, and mask is holding a device. The device has two cylinders connected together.
Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center...
Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in this picture from April 22, 1965. Oyama had a long career at NASA, during which he served as Life Detection Systems branch chief; he examined lunar soil samples and also helped design experiments for the Viking Mars Landers. Both he and his brother Jiro pioneered new areas of life sciences research at Ames.
Australian Space Agency Head Enrico Palermo, left, and Chief Technology Officer Aude Vignelles pose with the full-scale Volatiles Investigating Polar...
Australian Space Agency Head Enrico Palermo, left, and Chief Technology Officer Aude Vignelles pose with the full-scale Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) in the lobby of N232.
Macro Photographs of 3D Print of NASA Meatball - Made out of GRX-810, an Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) High Temperature...
Smith and his team employed time-saving computer modeling, as well as a laser 3D printing process that fused metals together, layer-by-layer, to create the new alloy. They used this process to produce the NASA logo pictured above.
NASA’s X-59 has undergone final installation of its lower empennage, better known as the tail assembly. NASA’s X-59 has undergone...
Back-side view of the X-59 tail with a red cover over the engine nozzle. The red plug or covering protects the engine by creating a barrier so that foreign objects cannot enter the engine or engine inlet.
The VIPER chassis in the clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The VIPER chassis sits in the clean room with the NASA logo in the background.
MSOLO Science Instrument for VIPER Arrives at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
MSOLO is prepared to be integrated with NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
No, it’s not hypermodern art. This image from a simulation generated by NASA’s high-performance computers, shows a Transonic Truss Braced...
This image, shows a Transonic Truss Braced Wing (TTBW) aircraft and how its wings interact with the air around them. The dark red area along the front of the wing represents higher-speed airflow.
Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff along with NASA Ames Research Center Director Dr. Eugene Tu and NASA astronaut Dr. Yvonne Cagle...
Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff participates in a “Make a Cloud” demonstration with students and NASA astronaut Dr. Yvonne Cagle at the East Oakland Youth Development Center in Oakland, California.
Astronaut Jessica Watkins visited Mariano Castro Elementary School in Mountain View, California on February 28, where she had the opportunity...
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins visited NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley on Tuesday, February 28, where she had the opportunity to engage with a local elementary school and speak with Ames employees.
Jang Woo Lee, mayor of Daejeon Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea, visited NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley on...
Two men wearing suits shake hands in front of a screen showing the NASA logo, which fills the wall behind them.
A science instrument that can reveal the composition of lunar soil has arrived at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston...
Two people in white lab coats in a clean room make adjustments to the NIRVSS instrument.
On Sunday, Dec. 11, the Orion spacecraft made its fiery descent through our atmosphere and returned to Earth, splashing down...
Grey cone-shaped spacecraft on the surface of the water, with three orange balloons at its top. There are three grey motor boats on its way to the spacecraft, with white foam in their wake.
NASA’s BioSentinel – a shoebox-sized CubeSat – is travelling far from Earth. But that also means it’s closer than ever...
Illustration of the BioSentinel spacecraft, flying past the Moon with the CubeSat's solar arrays fully deployed, facing the Sun.
During his visit to Ames, Cabana took a tour of the center that featured highlights of NASA facilities critical to...
NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana pilots the lunar lander at the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) facility,
Ames has a longstanding history of collaboration with the Navy, including current technology partnerships involving human health, life support and...
U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Anne M. Swap and Michael Hesse, director of science at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, talk in the lobby of the Biosciences Collaborative Facility at Ames.
Today, Vice President Kamala Harris met with the National Space Council at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland,...
Vice President Kamala Harris stand speaking with attendees at a National Space Council meeting, with Governor of California Gavin Newsom behind
NASA N941NA is the last Super Guppy Turbine Cargo Airplane in service.
The Super Guppy lands on the runway at Moffett Field at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. A person stands in front of the aircraft, directing it.
Humans won’t trek alone in future crewed missions to deep space. Robots are a central part of NASA’s plan for...
Inside the International Space Station, two astronauts work alongside two floating, cube-shaped robots
NASA’s CubeSat Proximity Operations and Demonstration (CPOD) mission will set out to perform for the first time a series of...
Four engineers from Terran Orbital Corporation pose with the CubeSat Proximity Operations and Demonstration (CPOD) spacecraft at their facility in California.
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket that will carry the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft...
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket sits on the pad at the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand for wet dress rehearsal ahead of the CAPSTONE launch.
Engineers recently tested a decked-out version of a prototype Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER – the most realistic...
VIPER Prototype Readies for Lander Tests, Practices Lunar Communications
The first full-scale replica of the agency’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) at the Chabot Space and Science Center...
Joeletta Patrick, Director of NASA's California Office of STEM Engagement, Eugene Tu, Ames Center Director, Adam Tobin, Chabot Director, Ryan Vaughn, lead mission systems engineer, Cara Dodge, Ames Event Lead, in front of VIPER model.
We can't wait to debut the first full-scale replica of NASA's water-hunting Moon rover, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover...
An illustration of the VIPER Moon rover on the Moon’s south pole looking for water ice.
On May 6, U.S. Congresswomen Anna G. Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren. Reps. Eshoo and Lofgren joined Ames Center Director Eugene...
From left to right: Javier González, head of External Affairs in California at Google, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Anna Eshoo, and Ames Center Director Eugene Tu tour the inside of Hangar One.
Expanding the capabilities of small spacecraft as critical platforms for research and technology demonstrations, the agency’s SmallSat Technology Partnerships (STP)...
USU researchers Charles Swenson and Lucas Anderson
A model of the X-59 aircraft, the centerpiece of NASA’s mission to gather information intended to help enable a new...
X59 JAXA Quesst Japan Wind Tunnel
“I’m helping manage a new program [at NASA] called Student Airborne Science Activation, or SaSa. The program focuses on recruiting...
Samiah Moustafa, Program Scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, in front of snow capped mountains
“Shí éí Nikki Tulley yinishyé. Tódích’íí’nii nishłį́. If I were to identify myself in my community, in my language, that’s...
Nikki Tulley, an Assistant Research Scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) is undergoing final construction – and with solar panel...
An engineer in a white lab suit holding a tape ruler to a small, microwave-sized, rectangular small satellite. One side has black panels, and others have silver panels and foil. Three team members are seen in the back.
A model of the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing aircraft is seen here installed for testing in the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel...
A model representing half an airplane featuring a truss-braced wing, installed for testing in a wind tunnel