A new school year is underway, which means it is time for a new year of NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge. Registration has opened for U.S.-based student teams to participate in the annual competition, set for April 15-17, 2021, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.

Kent Chojnacki has been appointed to the Senior Executive Service position of manager of the Systems Engineering and Integration Office – part of the Human Landing System Program Office at Marshall Space Flight Center.

Fine-tuning hardware technology to increase durability and minimize the need for replacements is a driving factor for Environmental Control and Life Support Systems engineers supporting air and water recycling on the International Space Station.

Forty-six teams selected for NASA student launch

John Honeycutt, manager of NASA’s Space Launch System Program at Marshall Space Flight Center, has 30 years in the spaceflight industry, helping ensure the systems that launch NASA’s intrepid astronauts into space work as they should. When they do not, he rolls up his sleeves to help figure …

NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge – the agency’s newest public prize competition – is now open and accepting submissions. NASA invites innovative minds from across the United States to provide ideas for sustainable energy storage, distribution and management on the lunar surface.

Continued investigative efforts have been extremely crucial during this past year given the unprecedented circumstances that embody all jurisdictions within the United States and abroad.

While its history does lend itself to munition production, these days Redstone Arsenal is more well-known for its research and development.

Every piece of hardware flown in space is first tested rigorously on the ground to ensure that it can perform in extreme environments. Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center operate a sophisticated set of custom-built testing facilities to simulate these conditions, and have concluded sev…

Frank Rubio, part of NASA’s astronaut class of 2017, will be the keynote speaker today for Marshall Space Flight Center’s live, virtual Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. All Marshall team members are invited to participate.

Loucious Hires has a long history in government service. After leaving his small hometown of Roberta, Georgia, at age 17, he lent his skills to the Army, Secret Service, Customs and Border Protection, and Veterans Affairs Office before joining NASA in 2014.

As part of the Artemis program, NASA is returning astronauts to the Moon, where the agency will prepare for human exploration of Mars. Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, experts from NASA, industry and academia are pioneering methods to print the rocket parts that could power those journeys.

Beginning this Friday, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will join other NASA centers in adopting Quiet Friday – an agencywide day dedicated to minimizing distractions and enhancing work-life balance.