#nasa

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NASA's newly announced class of six women and four men includes an engineer who has already flown in orbit on a privately backed mission and a geologist who worked on Mars rover missions. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/nasa-astronauts-geologist-lauren-edgar/

Ten members of the astronaut class of 2025 gather around large NASA logo

@JesusEstrada

I'm joining the stars. Finally, someone says it simply and clearly. I can now understand more and more without limits. Thank you very much, Jesús. It was hard for you to find and organize it, eh?

After a year's worth of uncertainty, selects to help it resurrect the mission to send an ice-hunting rover to the moon's south polar region. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/nasa-order-blue-origin-viper-rover-moon/

Illustration: VIPER rover and Blue Moon lander on lunar surface

Space News

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory data has been having issues since 13 Sept.

A note on the SDO data retrieval website states:

"The SDO web server has had a hardware failure with its data storage, so some features and data are temporarily unavailable. The team is working to restore access as soon as possible. Please refer to the Data Access Page to find alternate sources of SDO data."

In the meantime until repairs are completed, Goes-19's SUVI instrument is a good backup source for live solar images.

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/?utm_source=chatgpt.com




Image of the solar disc taken by Goes-19's SUVI instrument.

"Let's shut down a bunch of perfectly functional to give a few more pennies to the richest people in the world," say the stupidest people who have ever lived. Which wouldn't be a problem except that they're running my government.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/scientists-its-do-or-die-time-for-americas-primacy-exploring-the-solar-system/

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/scientists-its-do-or-die-time-for-americas-primacy-exploring-the-solar-system/ - this year's budget expires at the end of this month, and Congress must act before October 1 to avert a government shutdown; if Congress passes a budget before then, it will most likely be in the form of a continuing resolution, an extension of this year's funding levels into the first few weeks or months of fiscal year 2026.