Emblem Academy students in Santa Clarita, California, will engage with NASA astronauts on the International Space Station. The live Earth-to-space call happens at 11:35 a.m. EST on January 16, streamed on NASA+, NASA Television, and the agency’s website. Access NASA TV via various platforms and follow the event at https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv. Astronauts Loral O’Hara and Jasmin…
Flying on Mars presents significant challenges due to its thin atmosphere, yet NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter managed to achieve this feat an impressive 72 times. On January 25, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson somberly declared that the helicopter’s 72nd flight marked its final journey beyond Earth. Regrettably, during its groundbreaking exploits as the first craft to execute…
On January 19, 2024, at 10:20 a.m. EST, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) successfully touched down on the lunar surface. Just five days later, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) passed over the landing site and captured images of SLIM. The LRO snapped the photo from an altitude of…
