Photo of the Day On December 5, 2022, a camera on board the uncrewed Orion spacecraft captured this view as Orion approached its return powered flyby of the Moon. Beyond one of Orion's extended solar arrays lies dark, smooth, terrain along the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. Prominent on the lunar nearside Oceanus [...]
This resource reel shows major milestones for NASA’s mega Moon rocket, the SLS (Space Launch System) from January 2025 through December 2025. Teams across the country are manufacturing, building, and preparing hardware for SLS rockets that will power the first crewed Artemis missions with Artemis II and III. Video highlights include hardware integration for the [...]
As part of their spotlight month, the HeForSWE Affinity Group (AG) reflects on their past year of projects and events. Source
Several SWE Affinity Groups shared their highlights from this year and hinted at some of their plans for 2026. Source
What women in engineering read, watched, loved, and learned this year on the SWE blog, podcast, magazine, and learning center. Source
Photo of the Day This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871. About 25 light-years across, the telescopic field of view spans only a small part of the much larger Heart and Soul nebulae. At [...]
Over 150 engineers gathered to share experiences, foster collaboration, and empower women in technology at the 2025 SWE Korea conference. Source
Photo of the Day Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. Such visual spectacles occur every day for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but the featured video captured several from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 and set them to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city [...]
As the world turns back toward the office, the gains from flexibility in the workspace hang in the balance. The real question isn’t whether flexibility will last, but whether progress can survive without it. Source
Photo of the Day It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device. The spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our white-appearing Sun [...]
