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NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Update – A pair of news conferences on Wednesday, Jan. 25, will highlight NASA's Space X Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station in February. The mission, which is part of the Commercial Crew Program, will carry crew to the station.

Stately Spirals and Fuzzy Ellipticals – A host of astronomical objects are scattered across this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. In the center of the image, the vague shape of the small galaxy UGC 7983 appears as a hazy cloud of light. UGC 7983 is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. It is a dwarf irregular galaxy – a type thought to be similar to the very earliest galaxies in the universe.

U.S. and Japan: Space Exploration Collaboration– During a recent event hosted by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, representatives from the United States and Japan gathered to sign an agreement that builds on a long history of collaboration in space exploration between the two nations.

Geotail Mission Operations Come to an End – After 30 years in orbit, mission operations for the Geotail spacecraft have ended after the failure of the spacecraft’s remaining data recorder. Since its launch on July 24, 1992, Geotail orbited Earth, gathering an immense dataset on the structure and dynamics of the magnetosphere, Earth’s protective magnetic bubble.

Predicting the Sun’s Next Flare  – A team of scientists have found new clues that could help predict when and where the Sun’s next flare might explode. Using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, scientists identified small signals in the upper layers of the solar atmosphere, the corona, that can help identify which regions on the Sun are more likely to produce solar flares – energetic bursts of light and particles released from the Sun.

First Human Mission to the Lunar South Pole   – Humans have always been drawn to explore, discover, and learn as much as we can about the world—and worlds—around us. Following two Artemis test missions, Artemis III, currently planned for 2025, will make history by sending the first people to explore the region near the lunar South Pole for the benefit of all humanity.

Meet Dr. John Moisan, Research Oceanographer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

“I develop ecosystem models. But ecosystems do not have laws in the same way that physics has laws. Equations need to be created so that the ecosystem models represent what is observed in the real world. Satellites have been a great source for those observations, but without a lot of other types of observations that are collected in the field, the ocean, it is difficult to develop these equations.

In my time at NASA, I have only been able to develop models because of the great but often tedious work that ocean scientists around the world have been doing when they go on ocean expeditions to measure various ocean features, be it simple temperature or the more complicated measurements of algal growth rates. My experience with their willingness to collaborate and share data is especially memorable.

This experience is also what I enjoyed with numerous scientists at NASA who have always been willing to support new ideas and point me in the right direction. It has made working at NASA a phenomenal experience.”

Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, wears a smile after being unpacked from his transport case on Jan. 5, 2023.

Zero gravity indicators are small items carried aboard spacecraft that provide a visual indicator when a spacecraft has reached the weightlessness of microgravity. NASA has held an association with Snoopy since the Apollo Era – the character has contributed to the excitement for NASA human spaceflight missions, helping inspire generations to dream big, and is a symbol of NASA’s safety culture and mission success.