Author: Jay McDonough

🌍✨ Big GreenTV Update: NASA Testing Wastewater Treatment Facility for Future Moon Base A mobile wastewater treatment system built at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida that can help prepare for long-duration missions on the Moon and Mars departed the spaceport and arrived at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Graduate students at […]

🌍✨ Big GreenTV Update: NASA Space Roboticist Challenge The Fly Foundational Robots (FFR) mission will launch a robotic arm, with seven degrees of freedom, to low Earth orbit. NASA is opening access to the robotic arm to a select group of U.S. researchers — principal investigators, post-doctoral researchers, professors, and highly qualified graduate students — […]

🌍✨ Big GreenTV Update: Typhoon Jangmi The sprawling storm promised to deliver torrential rain across a wide swath of southern Japan. 💚 ⚡ Why this matters right now This points to real-world momentum — cleaner tech, smarter systems, and practical wins people can actually feel. At GreenTV, we focus on what works and what scales. […]

🌍✨ Big GreenTV Update: NASA Drains 66-Million-Gallon Reservoir to Upgrade Critical Water System A powerful but mostly unseen water system at work during rocket engine tests at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, underwent an upgrade in May. Crews brought the High Pressure Industrial Water Facility’s 66-million-gallon reservoir to its lowest level […]

🌍✨ Big GreenTV Update: Curiosity Blog, Sols 4908-4912: Goodbye Campo Marte, It’s Been Fun! By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, May 29, 2026 Drilling always keeps the rover in place for a little while, and our 47th successful drill, “Campo Marte,” was no exception. […]

🌍✨ Big GreenTV Update: A Moonlit Earth as Seen From Artemis II An astronaut’s photo, taken en route to the Moon, reveals our planet and its place in space in a novel way. 💚 ⚡ Why this matters right now This points to real-world momentum — cleaner tech, smarter systems, and practical wins people can […]

🌍✨ Big GreenTV Update: NASA Hosts 2026 Review on Advanced Composite Manufacturing NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project brought together its full team of Advanced Composites Consortium partners for a 2026 spring review at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The meeting took place May 5-7, bringing together about 150 people from the […]

🌍✨ Big GreenTV Update: Fighting Fire With Fire In fire-prone ecosystems in Australia’s Northern Territory, prescribed burns are lit to minimize the severity of fires later in the season. 💚 ⚡ Why this matters right now This points to real-world momentum — cleaner tech, smarter systems, and practical wins people can actually feel. At GreenTV, […]

🌍✨ Big GreenTV Update: NASA’s X-59 Aircraft Flies Supersonic for First Time NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft marked a major milestone Friday, June 5, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities later this year. NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less took off and landed […]

Researchers deploy an Argo float into the sea to gather data throughout the water column. ) Research Ocean & Coasts National Ocean Month research ocean exploration Source: NOAA News.

Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake. Source: NASA.