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NASA scheduled U.S. spacewalk 99 for Sept. 1, 2026, to replace a spacecraft navigational aid and complete maintenance work on the International Space Station.
President Trump awarded NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for their service during the Artemis II mission.
President Donald J. Trump will award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Artemis II crew members during a ceremony at Johnson Space Center.
NASA experts present sessions on small satellites, technology developments, and mission highlights in the Exhibit Hall at SmallSat 2026.
Western Europe endured five successive severe heat waves between May and August 2026, breaking historical temperature records and causing widespread infrastructure and health disruptions.
NASA selected four university teams under the ninth round of its University Leadership Initiative to advance aeronautics research in supersonic flight, avionics, urban air mobility, and aircraft design.
NASA opened the Orbital Clarity Challenge offering up to $500,000 in prizes across three phases to develop low-cost methods for measuring thermospheric density and orbital drag in low Earth orbit.
NASA invited collegiate teams to submit concepts for airborne platforms that could inspect land-based infrastructure such as bridges and tunnels, as part of the 2027 Gateways to Blue Skies competition.
NASA selected All Points Logistics LLC, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, and L3Harris Technologies Inc. to provide payload processing facilities under an on-ramp provision of the Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract.
NASA became a formal partner producing the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor assessment, taking its first turn authoring the report in August 2026.
NASA's Night Sky Network published an astronomy guide detailing the constellation Cygnus, the star Deneb in the Summer Triangle, the Veil Nebula supernova remnant, and observations of black hole Cygnus X-1 by the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
NASA announced MAX POWER, a public exposition of American air and space innovation scheduled for Nov. 7-8, 2026, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in honor of America's 250th anniversary.
NASA invited U.S.-based collegiate student teams to propose aerospace concepts for the 2027 RASC-AL competition supporting sustained lunar South Pole operations.
NASA researchers, high-altitude aircraft, astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and student ballooning teams observed and studied the total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026.
NASA scientific teams deployed WB-57 high-altitude aircraft in Iceland and coordinated the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project to study the Sun's corona and Earth's atmosphere during the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse.
NASA announced live broadcast plans and scientific research missions, including high-altitude aircraft flights and student balloon launches, for the total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026.
NASA systems engineering manager Tom Percy coordinates with commercial lander providers SpaceX and Blue Origin to streamline Human Landing System integration.
NASA's INSPYRE mission sampled stratospheric smoke plumes from pyrocumulonimbus clouds generated by Utah's Widemouth 2 wildfire using high-altitude aircraft and satellite sensors.
NASA released an Earth Observatory image article showcasing tidal dynamics in Guinea-Bissau's Bijagós Archipelago, captured on November 28, 2025.
NASA hosted prototype testing for five finalist teams in the Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge at the Johnson Space Center Rock Yard to advance surface mobility for future Moon Base missions.
NASA announced coverage for three August 2026 spacewalks outside the International Space Station to upgrade solar arrays, replace a communications antenna, and connect power and data cables.
Dry thunderstorms ignited dozens of wildfires across central and eastern Oregon, prompting state air quality advisories and evacuation orders while NASA satellites tracked smoke plumes and thermal anomalies.
NASA announced the CAPSTONE 02 mission to demonstrate rendezvous, proximity operations, and autonomous navigation in lunar orbit.
NASA and Blue Origin agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the New Glenn rocket on the B-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
NASA selected Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC to provide comprehensive operations, maintenance, and repair services for Ames Research Center under a five-year contract valued up to $158 million.
In October 2025, NASA streamlined its aircraft flight operations by relocating its research aircraft from Glenn Research Center to Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, with Glenn continuing icing, propulsion, and communications technology research in collaboration with Armstrong.
The near-Earth object 1998 SH2 passed within 2 million miles of Earth, triggering tracking attempts by the Deep Space Network.
NASA conducted in-flight visual acuity experiments during the Gemini V and Gemini VII missions to test astronaut vision from space.