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December 30, 2025

Crayola space-themed kits and toys star in new 'Planet McDonald's' Happy Meal

Crayola and McDonald's are blasting off into the new year with a Happy Meal designed to send kids' imaginations into orbit. The crayon brand and fast food chain have teamed together for the first time on a global campaign: "Planet McDonald's."

December 20, 2025

NASA rewraps Boeing Starliner Astrovan II for Artemis II crew ride to launch pad

Artemis II, meet Astrovan II. NASA's first astronauts who will fly by the moon in more than 50 years participated in a practice launch countdown, including taking their first trip on a transport vehicle steeped in almost the full span of U.S. space history.

December 16, 2025

Astronaut's space shuttle-flown Santa hat on display for the season

A red and white conical cap that circled the world one Christmas Eve — not atop a jolly old man riding a reindeer-guided sled, but rather on a NASA astronaut aboard a space shuttle — has gone on display in Kansas to celebrate the holiday season.

December 12, 2025

Artemis adornment: NASA paints program logo on launch gantry white room

NASA's "white room" has just gained a bit of color. The environmental enclosure that is typically painted all white — hence, in part, its name — has been adorned with the red, blue and silver Artemis program logo on one side of its exterior.

December 3, 2025

NASA reveals 'America 250' logo on rocket launching astronauts to the moon

Astronaut Reid Wiseman, commander of NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission to the moon, recently remarked that flying during the United States' 250th anniversary has definitely got him and his crew "fired up." Now he could have been speaking literally.

December 18, 2025

Private astronaut Jared Isaacman sworn in as NASA Administrator

NASA has a new chief, just in time for the new year. Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur who self-financed two history-making spaceflights, was sworn into office the day after the Senate voted 67 to 30 to confirm him as the agency's administrator.

December 13, 2025

US Postal Service returns to Webb Space Telescope for 2026 Priority Mail stamps

Given its latest pair of Priority Mail stamps revealed for the new year, maybe the U.S. Postal Service should consider relabeling its expedited deliveries as "interstellar." For the third year in a row, Priority Mail stamps in 2026 will feature images of the universe.

December 8, 2025

Lunar Outpost rover to study lunar dust alongside Artemis astronauts on moon

B-9 had Will Robinson. Twiki had Buck Rogers. And, of course, C-3PO and R2-D2 had Luke Skywalker. Now, in a scenario straight out of science fiction, MAPP will have whoever NASA names to the crew of the second Artemis moon landing mission.

December 2, 2025

LEGO announces new NASA Artemis SLS rocket set to lift off (literally!) in 2026

How do you top a highly-detailed scale model of NASA's new moon-bound rocket and its support tower? If you are LEGO, you make it so it can actually lift off. The NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket will land on store shelves Jan. 1.

December 26, 2025
The Design Tourist

Space For Art: Inside Orlando Science Center's Most Human Exhibit

Space for Art is not centered on technical milestones or engineering triumphs alone. Instead, it invites you to slow down and consider space exploration through a deeply human lens shaped by creativity, emotion, and shared responsibility.

December 23, 2025
Houston Chronicle

Communities near NASA keep Apollo 8 history alive with luminarias Christmas Eve tradition

The residents of Timber Cove lined their streets with luminarias and then looked to the moon on Christmas Eve of 1968.

December 20, 2025
CNN.com

She just became the first wheelchair user to travel to space

Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency, just became the first wheelchair user ever to travel past the Kármán Line — a common demarcation for outer space that lies 100 kilometers (62 miles) above sea level.

December 9, 2025
Space.com

NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts land aboard Russian Soyuz after 8 months on International Space Station

Jonny Kim of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky of Roscosmos touched down in Kazakhstan on Tuesday (Dec. 9).

December 8, 2025
The New York Times

John Noble Wilford, Times Reporter Who Covered the Moon Landing, Dies at 92

He gave readers a comprehensive and lyrical account of the historic mission in 1969. His science coverage as a Pulitzer-winning journalist and an author took him around the world.

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