NASA Selects All-American 2025 Class of Astronaut Candidates
NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. The 10 candidates, pictured here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are: U.S. Army CW3 Ben Bailey, U.S. Air Force Maj. Cameron Jones, Katherine Spies, Anna Menon, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Erin Overcash, U.S. Air Force Maj. Adam Fuhrmann, Dr. Lauren Edgar, Yuri Kubo, Rebecca Lawler, and Dr. Imelda Muller.
Credit: NASA
Dark Energy Survey (DES)
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is an international, collaborative effort including Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and NSF’s NOIRLab. It will map hundreds of millions of galaxies, detect thousands of supernovae, and find patterns of cosmic structure that could reveal the nature of the mysterious dark energy that is accelerating the expansion of our Universe.
Jackson Park - Eyes to the Sky. Dark Sky Gathering Event, Pie Town, NM. April 25.26.27
Dark Sky Gathering
Continental Divide Coalition
National Religious Partnership for the Enviromnment
Film - Written on the Landscape by Anna Sofaer
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