Build. Learn. Discover.

We’ll be at LEGOLAND Discovery Center Bay Area on Friday, May 31 for a special space-themed adult night! Meet NASA Ames experts and hear how robotics advance exploration.

Swarm success 🛰🛰🛰🛰

Our four Starling #CubeSats have flown, communicated, and shared information without involvement from the team on the ground.

Learn more about their primary mission successes and what’s coming next with Starling 1.5: go.nasa.gov/3V5gjx9

Were there signs of life in the Moon rocks and soil brought back to Earth in 1969? It was the job of Vance Oyama, Chief of the Life Detection Branch at NASA Ames and the principal investigator for Apollo sample studies, to find out. About his work: go.nasa.gov/3K6az17 #AANHPI

This week at NASA:
* We discussed artificial intelligence
* Our supersonic aircraft passed a milestone
* Our future commercial resupply spacecraft arrives at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

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On #MemorialDay , we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country.

Sunset Splashdown ☀️

The Apollo 10 spacecraft, with astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan onboard, landed in the South Pacific #OTD in 1969, concluding a successful eight-day lunar orbit mission.

From 100,000 miles away 📸

This Apollo 10 image of Earth was taken 55 years ago in 1969.

What helped Orion Spacecraft endure temperatures as hot as the Sun during Earth re-entry?

A heat shield woven with quartz yarn and cyanate ester resin in a unique three-dimensional design.

Learn more about our 3D-MAT material: go.nasa.gov/3Vc9pqX

May Moon 🌼 🌕

Flower Moon looking full

Mission managers from NASA, Boeing Space, and @ULALaunch continue to evaluate a path forward toward launching #Starliner 's Crew Flight Test.

The teams are now working toward a launch opportunity at 12:25pm ET on Saturday, June 1, with additional opportunities on Sunday, June 2,

Live: Tune in as leaders host an employee town hall to discuss how we're using and developing artificial intelligence tools to advance missions and research x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

NASA, Boeing Space, and ULA are forgoing the May 25 launch attempt for the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test following meetings assessing flight rationale, system performance, and redundancy.

The next possible launch opportunity is still being discussed. We will share more

Join agency leaders on Wednesday, May 22, at 1pm ET (1700 UTC) as they discuss how we're using and developing artificial intelligence tools to advance missions and research: go.nasa.gov/3UOKj0c

Dream Chaser 💫

A scale model of the Dream Chaser spaceplane was tested in our wind tunnels in 2020, and now the real thing is gearing up for first flight to the International Space Station.

Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3QWPfPs

Our Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) project is advancing aviation technologies for first responders to keep pace with the growing threat of wildland fires.

Keep up with ACERO on our new webpage: go.nasa.gov/4bBOymu

NASA, Boeing Space, and ULA are now are targeting no earlier than 3:09pm ET May 25 for the launch of the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test mission.

Teams will use the additional time to finalize next steps that address a stable helium leak on the #Starliner service module.

This week, we practiced #Artemis II lunar science, previewed a polar climate mission, and spotted a young star.

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#ICYMI Our DC-8 aircraft flew its final flight on the way to retirement this week. It will be missed in the skies above.

What's next: go.nasa.gov/4al1qfF

Did you see the aurora? 🤩

Citizen scientists with NASA’s Aurorasaurus project, which tracks aurora sightings, took these photos on May 10-11, 2024 during a geomagnetic storm that @noaa reports is the most extreme since 2003. go.nasa.gov/4blgYBg

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