
ALT Voyager Technologies’ Griffin-1 lunar lander is suspended in front of the open 25-Foot Space Simulator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as technicians in clean-room garments guide and position the spacecraft. The large thermal vacuum chamber rises behind the lander, with an American flag hanging beside the entrance. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA Minute: October 10, 2026
This week, NASA’s mission stretched from the edge of the Arctic to the shores of the Mediterranean, and from low Earth orbit to the far side of the Moon. Here’s what’s new, in your NASA Minute!

ALT A young star cluster filled with many stars that display Webb’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its center is a yellow star which sports the largest diffraction pattern. To the left of the star, there is a region filled with yellow dust and gas. This yellow region extends from the bottom, covering about two-thirds of the image. The yellow region has several blue stars of different sizes embedded within. The top third, which lies outside of the yellow region, holds a few bright protostars, within dense gray gas. Those stars illuminate the gas, making it appear blue. A few red outflows from other protostars are visible above this grayish-blue region. To the right of the central star, there is a clumpy, flame-like plume of red dust and gas with protostars that emit a soft white light within. The plume is surrounded by more dense gray gas and dust.

ALT Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, left, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON shortly after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. Meir, Hathaway, Adenot, and Fedyaev are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 74 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)





















