Category: NASA

Fall is here and that can only mean one thing – the start of soup season. Panera, known for its iconic soups including favorites like Broccoli Cheddar and Creamy Tomato, is thrilled to make this soup season the coziest yet with a delicious lineup of three new and returning favorites. Starting today, guests can savor the

Backroads Releases 2025 Travel Catalog Featuring Biking, Hiking, and Multi-Adventure Tours Backroads, the leader in active travel, has launched its 285-page catalog for 2025, titled Explore the World the Backroads Way. The catalog showcases over 270 trips across seven continents, including Biking, Walking & Hiking, Multi-Adventure, and Family tours. New offerings include Women’s Adventure Tours

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay has announced its newest attraction, the Wild Oasis realm, set to open in Spring 2025. Located in the Jungala area, Wild Oasis will be North America’s most immersive and interactive adventure realm, featuring a reimagined drop tower with digital effects, an interactive water-play area, a multi-level climbing canopy, and a multi-species

Tahira S. Allen Sep 16, 2024 “I would say family and part of that ‘first-gen experience’ [shaped me]. Being born in the U.S. gave me a lot of opportunities that my family and parents were robbed of because of situations in their home country. It shaped me to be a hard worker and to aspire to

The Perseverance rover is reaching new heights as it ascends the rim of Jezero crater (over 300 meters in elevation higher than the original landing site)! The rover is now enroute to its first campaign science stop Dox Castle (image in the far ground) a region of interest for its potential to host ancient Mars’

Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 13, 2024 Today, I need to talk about ChemCam, our laser and imaging instrument on the top of Curiosity’s mast. It one of the instruments in the “head” that gives Curiosity that cute look as if it were looking around tilting its head down to the rocks at the rover’s

Roxana Bardan Sep 13, 2024 NASA has awarded the NASA Academic Mission Services 2 (NAMS-2) contract to Crown Consulting Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, to provide the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, aeronautics and exploration technology research and development support. NAMS-2 is a single award hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum

Teams are evaluating how to train for lunar surface operations during Artemis missions, in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky The Next Full Moon is a Partial Lunar Eclipse; a SuperMoon; the Corn Moon; the Harvest Moon; the Fruit or Barley Moon; the end of Ganesh Chaturthi and