NASA Social participants get an inside look at space station science

Johnson Space Center welcomed 30 social media users to learn about research on the International Space Station, tour facilities, attend the Expedition 36 mission briefing and, of course, share it with all of their followers. MORE...

Reduced-gravity program kicks off summer with undergraduate experiments

Undergraduate students from various universities participated in the second flight week of NASA’s Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program (RGEFP) from June 3 to 10, where gravitational effects on unique experiments were proposed, designed and fabricated by teams from around the country. This week of the program, called Microgravity University, was for undergraduate student learners. MORE...

Spacewalk lessons learned

There may be no greater image that represents exploration than that of a human being in a spacesuit—a spaceship for one. This narrated video covers important lessons learned through the years about Extravehicular Activities, or EVAs. MORE...

Johnson Space Center team members pay their respects to fallen Houston Fire Department heroes

On June 5, the Johnson Space Center Office of Emergency Management, in partnership with the Houston Fire Department (HFD), raised and lowered four flags above Mission Control in honor of the four HFD firefighters who lost their lives on May 31. Capt. Matthew Renaud, 35, Engineer-Operator Robert Bebee, 41, firefighter Robert Garner, 29, and probationary firefighter Anne Sullivan, 24, were killed when a roof collapsed on them shortly after entering a fire at the Bhojan Restaurant and Southwest Inn on the Southwest Freeway. It was the most firefighters lost in a single incident or day in the history of the HFD. More than 100 JSC team members came out to pay their respects to the fallen Houston heroes. The flags will later be presented to the families by officials from the HFD, who were at JSC for the ceremony and to receive the flags. MORE...

Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit showcases the Johnson Space Center team and 'heartware'

Plenty of Johnson Space Center “heartware” will go on display as the Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit opens on June 29 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Recorded memories, observations and anecdotes from dozens of the men and woman at JSC who helped ensure that NASA’s long running shuttle program came to a successful conclusion have been carefully woven into the multimedia portion of the new 90,000-square-foot Florida exhibit. MORE...