NASA, a privately owned company headquartered in the US, was founded in 1958 and employs approximately 39,550 individuals. The company specializes in Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing and functions as a tier 1 media tech buyer.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun on March 11, matching its previous record of reaching 6.2 million kilometers from the solar surface. The agency is also preparing its Artemis II mission for April, which will send commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch (the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit), and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen (the first non-American astronaut on a lunar mission) to the Moon. Separately, NASA reported its Hubble Telescope captured the real-time breakup of Comet K1, providing scientists a closer look at how comets behave during dramatic phases. Earlier, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb called on NASA to redirect its Curiosity Rover to investigate a roughly 20-centimeter "shiny" cylindrical object, photographed on Mars in 2022, that has never been officially identified.