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Webbys FYC 2025: NASA Newsletter

NASA Newsletter NASA’s weekly newsletter is delivered every Friday and offers a curated look at the week’s top stories, from Earth to the Moon, the Solar System, and beyond. Current Edition about NASA Newsletter SUBSCRIBERS 5+ million OPEN RATE 34-36%…

Mihailo Derek Rutovic 

Mihailo Derek Rutovic  Director, Airborne Science Program, Earth Science Division  Derek Rutovic has served as the director of the Airborne Science Program (ASP) since June 2025.  As the ASP director, he is responsible for managing the cost, schedule, and performance…

Dr. Ed Nowottnick 

Dr. Ed Nowottnick  Program Manager, Radiation Sciences Program, Atmosphere, Earth Science Division Ed Nowottnick serves as the program scientist for the Radiation Sciences Program for the Atmosphere within NASA’s Earth Science Division’s Research and Analysis (R&A) Program since March 2025.…

NASA Announces 2025 International Space Apps Challenge Global Winners

NASA Space Apps announced Thursday 10 winners of the 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge. During this two-day hackathon, participants gathered at 551 local events across 167 countries and territories to showcase their STEM skills and proposed ways to transform NASA’s…

Expedition 74 Advancing Space Health and AI Research on Station

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke works inside the NanoRacks Bishop airlock and installs technology demonstration hardware that may support orbital debris capture techniques or future space mining on small asteroids. NASA The Expedition 74 crew’s research schedule was filled with biomedical…

Dr. K. Emma Knowland

Dr. K. Emma Knowland Atmosphere Program Manager – Tropospheric Composition Research Dr. K. Emma Knowland is a Program Manager and Program Scientist at NASA HQ in the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division, where she manages the Tropospheric Composition Program…

Dr. Amanda Whitehurst

Dr. Amanda Whitehurst Biosphere Program Manager Dr. Amanda Whitehurst currently serves as the Program Manager for Biosphere in NASA Earth Science Research and Analysis Element. Amanda is also a Program Scientist for GEDI, LVIS, STV, and NISAR. In 2020, she…

Photo tourism threatens rare galaxy frog population in India’s Western Ghats

Seven threatened galaxy frogs (Melanobatrachus indicus) are gone from a research site in India’s Western Ghats after photographers seeking images of the rare, star-patterned amphibians destroyed their delicate forest floor habitat, according to a study published in Herpetology Notes. Researchers…

Janet Daniels

Janet Daniels Data Scientist, Lead/Supervisor, Contractor, Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Project, Climate Science Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center Janet Daniels received her BS degree in mathematics with departmental honors from Christopher Newport University, Newport…