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NASA

• NASA’s SpaceX 34th Commercial Resupply Mission Overview
  May 8, 2026 by Joseph Zakrzewski
  NASA and SpaceX are targeting a mid-May launch to deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.  Loaded with about 6,500 pounds of supplies, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will lift off aboard the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Following its arrival to the orbital complex, Dragon will dock autonomously to the forward port of […]
• NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Mars During Gravity Assist Approach
  May 8, 2026
  Description This colorized image of Mars was captured by NASA’s Psyche mission on May 3, 2026, about 3 million miles (4.8 million kilometers) from the planet. The spacecraft is approaching the planet for a gravity assist on May 15 that will give it a boost in speed and adjust its trajectory toward asteroid Psyche for […]
• I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas
  May 8, 2026 by Jason Costa
  Listen to this audio excerpt from Anton Kiriwas, senior technical integration manager for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program: When Anton Kiriwas first spotted an image of the Moon and Mars hanging over a job fair booth while in college, it captured his imagination, yet felt like a dream too distant to chase. He had no […]
• NASA, Industry Advance High Performance Spaceflight Computing
  May 8, 2026 by Loura Hall
  For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that coordinate and execute the functions needed to support mission success. Space computing originated in the 1960s with the Apollo Guidance Computers, which were pivotal for guidance, navigation, and control computations during NASA’s first Moon missions. For decades, radiation-hardened processors have been the backbone of the […]
• Glowing Views from the Space Station
  May 8, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured the Milky Way rising above Earth’s atmospheric glow on April 13, 2026, while aboard a SpaceX Dragon docked to the International Space Station. This atmospheric glow is also called airglow. It occurs when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit light to shed their excess energy. […]

SpaceNews

• Swift reboost mission completes environmental tests
  May 8, 2026
• Paraguay signs the Artemis Accords
  May 8, 2026
• Rocket Lab announces large launch contract and plans to acquire space robotics company
  May 8, 2026
• SatVu zooms in on energy facilities in Cuba, India and Australia
  May 8, 2026
• Lunar Outpost raises $30 million
  May 8, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Manufacturing qubits that can move
  by John Timmer
• Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology
  by Stephen Clark
• DNA identifies four more crew members of doomed Franklin expedition
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• How climate change makes your allergies worse
  by Keerti Gopal, Inside Climate News
• RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
  by Jennifer Ouellette