Crews are using an innovative engineering approach to upgrade an essential test complex water system that will help ensure the future of large propulsion testing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. “It is a critical facility…
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday named John Bailey as director of the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, effective immediately. Bailey had been serving as acting director role since January. “John will build on his nearly…
The Solar Eclipse will begin shortly and News 25’s Brooke Parker is already set up and ready to watch. If you need an easy and safe way to view the eclipse…
“It’ll look like an Oreo cookie that has a bite out of it and the bite will get bigger and bigger and bigger.” The solar eclipse is fast approaching. With many…
Over at Stennis Space Center, testing for a development engine RS-25 to be used for future Artemis space exploration was displayed to WXXV. For eight full…
Some East Central Hornets are heading to Huntsville to represent Mississippi at NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge. This is the science club's second year going and they're…
On March 22, NASA conducted a key RS-25 engine test series for future Artemis flights. The hot-fire test was conducted on the Fred Haise Test…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since the Apollo astronauts fell silent Thursday, a week after breaking a leg at touchdown and tipping over near the lunar south pole. Intuitive Machines’ lander, Odysseus, lasted longer…
NASA will conduct an RS-25 hot fire Friday, Feb. 23, moving one step closer to production of new engines that will help power the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. Teams…
STEM FEST On March 2, the INFINITY Science Center is hosting a STEM FEST! The STEM FEST is a free event running from 9 AM until 12 PM.…
The first Artemis moon rocket engine test of 2024 took place on January 17. NASA completed a 500-second hot fire test of an RS-25…
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and another few years before landing on it. NASA on Tuesday announced the latest round of delays in its Artemis moon-landing…
BY MARCIA DUNN Updated 10:02 AM CST, November 29, 2023 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists. It turns out that the asteroid Dinkinesh has a dinky sidekick — a mini moon. The discovery was made…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists. It turns out that the asteroid Dinkinesh has a dinky sidekick — a mini moon. The discovery was made…
Four University of Southern Mississippi graduate students in its College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded the prestigious NASA-Mississippi Space Grant Consortium’s Graduate Research Fellowship for the current academic year 2023-24. The MSSGC is a statewide non-profit entity consisting…
BY MARCIA DUNN Updated 4:13 PM CDT, August 4, 2023 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was back chatting it up Friday after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence. Hurtling ever deeper…
Four MGCCC students from the Harrison County campus were selected to take part in the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars Program. MGCCC has been a partner with NASA, mainly…
By: Ivonne Kawas The College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Southern Mississippi celebrates 25 students who have been awarded Space Grant scholarships through the state-wide NASA-Mississippi Space Grant Consortium program. This initiative aims to support students and…
The John C. Stennis Space Center tested its last RS-25 engine for the season. This engine will send astronauts to the moon. As powerful as this one…
Stennis Space Center is known far and wide for its contribution to NASA’s space program, but officials with Stennis are trying to get the word out about the…
Stennis Space Center conducted their 10th hot fire test for the RS-25 engine. The test was conducted on the Fred Haise test stand. Operators fired the engine up…
NASA entered the home stretch of a RS-25 certification engine test series with a successful host fire today, continuing to set the stage for future Artemis missions…
NASA has launched a new mission aimed at improving hurricane forecasting. The first two CubeSats, nicknamed ‘Rocket like a Hurricane,’ lifted off from New Zealand Sunday evening. They…