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The last open source graphics driver update before the holidays is here, with Mesa 24.3.2 now available for you to upgrade. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

If you've had your eye on Spellrogue, the early access deck-building roguelike that blends the progression of Slay the Spire with Dicey Dungeon style chance mechanics, now might be the best time to take the plunge. Developer Guidelight Games is planning to permanently increase the price of the game following the ongoing Steam Winter ***** in preparation for its 1.0 launch. That means the current discount might well be the lowest you can get the game any time soon, with the full release just a few months away. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Promising new roguelike deckbuilder Spellrogue adds new boss fight New Steam deckbuilder mixes Slay the Spire and Dicey Dungeons, out now View the full article

A dual Russian and Israeli national has been charged in the United States for allegedly being the developer of the now-defunct LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation since its inception in or around 2019 through at least February 2024. Rostislav Panev, 51, was arrested in Israel earlier this August and is currently awaiting extradition, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said in aView the full article

Marvel Rivals has plenty to offer players over the festive season with the highlight being the free Jeff the Land Shark Cuddly Fuzzlefin costume. If you want to know how to add this look to your locker, we’ve got the details you need. While the majority of Marvel Rivals skins are available through purchase, there are also a bunch of free skins—and the Winter Celebration event has provided a new one to grind towards, handing you a new look for your favorite land-based aquatic creature. View the full article

GSC Game World continues to release brand-new updates for its hit first-person shooter survival horror game, STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. The latest patch comes just in time for the holiday weekend, making numerous improvements to STALKER 2 just one day after the popular title receive its biggest update to date. View the full article

This 2010 crossover game for PlayStation Portable is finally getting a worldwide release with a remaster 15 years later. View the full article

A Zenless Zone Zero leak revealed that Nicole might get a new skin in a future update. Known for its beat-em-up style combat system, Zenless Zone Zero also features a cast of dynamic characters who have unique looks and abilities. View the full article

From December 20th, 2024, until January 9th, 2025, Marvel Rivals has the ongoing Winter Celebration event where you can earn several free rewards. During this time, you can participate in the new Jeff's Winter Splash Festival mode and complete missions to get a new skin, emote, and other cosmetics. You can achieve various goals to get different items by gaining unique currency for the event. View the full article

A new Genshin Impact leak suggests that Snezhnaya will be released in the 7.0 update, instead of the expected 6.0. Genshin Impact hasn't wrapped up its Natlan Archon Quest yet, but fans are already excited to know what the Cryo Nation might have in store for them. View the full article

This 3D remake of the 2021 pixel-art action RPG lands one month from now. View the full article

The success of College Football 25 has definitely laid the foundation for College Football 26, even though there haven't been any announcements made. The series came back hot after being absent for over ten years, with College Football 25 as a huge hit. The game broke sales records and achieved a popularity level that few sports games do. This success has created a lot of excitement for its sequel. Fans had been craving a real college football game, and this one delivered. View the full article

Open-world action RPG Wuthering Waves may be receiving an interesting new set of character special effects, as a leak claims battle damage appearances could be coming to the game. Developer Kuro Games is gearing up to deploy a major Wuthering Waves version update early in 2025. View the full article

Ark: Survival Ascended's Extinction update brings a new map, new creature, and new features to the revamped dinosaur survival game. Extinction Ascended is the fourth major free DLC to be released for ASA, following up on Scorched Earth, The Center, and Aberration. Each of these DLCs is centered on a map that debuted in Ark: Survival Evolved, usually as a player-made mod; in fact, Extinction is the first to have been an original creation of Studio Wildcard. View the full article

Wuthering Waves players can get a free 5-Star Echo of their choice through the new "Rinascita Echo Fiesta" web event. Rinascita is the next main explorable nation coming to Wuthering Waves in its highly-anticipated 2.0 update. View the full article

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel. General Discovery ******: Smoothed out user experience and brought up to date with recent changes to web version. Fixed brightness slider (HDR) in Quick Access Menu Steam Input Added Nintendo Switch controller configurations to the options shown by default for the Wireless HORIPAD for Steam so that gyro configurations are more easily found Fixed an issue where previewing a configuration, then editing your original configuration could corrupt it Made the "Choose a Configuration" page remember which tab you were on when returning from previewing a configuration Made the "Choose a Configuration" page remember the setting to show/hide configurations from other controller types Fixed a ****** in Drill Core when Steam Input is enabled with a gamepad configView the full article

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes: General Fixed a case where Steam would prefer to stream from another PC on your local network if the game was installed on both PCs and could be played without streaming. macOS Fixed game recording failures on Apple Silicon Macs when recording native games. Fixed audio in Remote Play Together sessions when streaming a native game from an Apple Silicon Mac. Steam Input Added Nintendo Switch controller configurations to the options shown by default for the Wireless HORIPAD for Steam so that gyro configurations are more easily found Fixed an issue where previewing a configuration, then editing your original configuration could corrupt it Made the "Choose a Configuration" page remember which tab you were on when returning from previewing a configuration Made the "Choose a Configuration" page remember the setting to show/hide configurations from other controller typesView the full article

A reliable source in the Genshin Impact community has revealed that Skirk will be a 5-Star Cryo character set for release in Version 5.7. While Natlan is still in the middle of its era with Version 5.3, the developers of Genshin Impact have teased the next six months of content in the latest livestream. Coupled with mentions of Nod-Krai and the Collective of Plenty, Genshin Impact also shared an image of seven upcoming characters, albeit their models were presented as ****** silhouettes. View the full article

A new Marvel Rivals ad has accidentally revealed that two new characters, Human Torch and The Thing, might be coming to the game in the near future. Marvel Rivals launched with an impressive roster of 33 characters, but fans have been eagerly waiting for more as the developers are yet to share their plans. View the full article

World of Warcraft has officially revealed the class tier set bonuses from Patch 11.1, all of which use a handful of Goblin-themed keywords: Luck of the Draw!, Insurance!, Jackpot!, And Winning Streak! Players will be able to collect these tier sets when the new Liberation of Undermine raid releases in World of Warcraft Patch 11.1 – but they will be able to try them out on the Public Test Realm when it opens up early next year. View the full article

With an overwhelming number of craftable items for your Stardew Valley farm, it's easy to forget about one of the game's most essential: the scarecrow. If you're a player who doesn't use scarecrows - or if you're using more than just a handful - you're probably playing it wrong. Scarecrows in Stardew don't just add some rustic charm to your farm, they also scare away the pesky crows who can feast on your crops and impact your profits. When it comes to placing scarecrows, there are some easy Do's and Don'ts every farmer should know. View the full article

Steam users spent far less time playing brand new games than one might expect, with only 15% of global play dedicated to new titles. Steam has now revealed its end-of-year stats for players and on a global scale, and it's revealed this tidbit, plus some other interesting details regarding what players choose to play on the game platform. View the full article

This was meant to be the year of Ark 2, but it wasn't to be. Well, there are still 11 days left of the year at the time of writing, but even the most optimistic of Ark fans will know that the survival game sequel won't be dropping this year as intended. Ark Survival Ascended, however, keeps trucking on, and another double dose of DLC has just landed in the remaster. However, not everyone can play it yet due to some complications on certain platforms. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The 13 best Ark Survival Ascended mods The best Ark servers 2024 A beautiful Greek-style Ark Survival Ascended map is coming for free View the full article

Blizzard has revealed that Hazard's win rates in Overwatch 2 have been 55-56% since his Season 14 release. Hazard is the latest addition to the Overwatch 2 hero roster, and many Tank players are already effectively using his abilities. View the full article

The Team Fortress 2 comic has just released its newest update, seven years since the last issue and seemingly the finale to this long journey. Team Fortress 2 Issue 7 "The Days Have Worn Away" is the first update to the online digital comic series since January 10, 2017, and it looks like it might just be the comic's finale based on this tweet from Valve writer Erik Wolpaw. Pic from the last tf comics meeting ever. (not pictured: Ira Crosby) [Hidden Content] — Erik Wolpaw (@Wolpaw) December 20, 2024 "Did you know the construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa was one hundred and ninety nine years late? Literally everyone alive when construction started was dead by the time it finished," The Team Fortress 2 team writes in a blog post announcing the new issue. A perhaps more extreme example of something taking a long time to complete than this comic, but an apt analogy. For fans of Team Fortress 2, you'll find the gang all here including a newly married Soldier and even a maskless Spy. The issue also has a dedication to Rick May, the voice of Soldier who died in 2020 at the age of 79. The story itself concludes a long, winding journey that TF2 fans have been waiting a long time to see updated, so I won't spoil the rest of the comic here. The comics have served as an invaluable tome to find out more about the different TF2 characters, especially background characters like Miss Pauling and The Administrator. The comics are very much worth a full read if you haven't checked them out already. Valve is continuing the trend of emerging from what seems like some kind of gaming hibernation, first with the release of the Steam Deck and the testing of its new hero shooter, Deadlock. This new comic issue serves that Valve creatives are still tinkering in the background, working on new stories for our favorite games. Matt Kim is IGN's Senior Features Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd. View the full article

2024 Year in Review – Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley by Tiffany Blake As NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley enters its 85th year since its founding, join us as we take a look back at some of our highlights of science, engineering, research, and innovation from 2024. Ames Arc Jets Play Key Role in Artemis I Orion Spacecraft Heat Shield Findings A block of Avcoat undergoes testing inside an arc jet test chamber at NASA Ames. The test article, configured with both permeable (upper) and non-permeable (lower) Avcoat sections for comparison, helped to confirm understanding of the root cause of the loss of charred Avcoat material that engineers saw on the Orion spacecraft after the Artemis I test flight beyond the Moon. photo credit: NASA Researchers at Ames were part of the team tasked to better understand and identify the root cause of the unexpected char loss across the Artemis I Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. Using Avcoat material response data from Artemis I, the investigation team was able to replicate the Artemis I entry trajectory environment — a key part of understanding the cause of the issue — inside the arc jet facilities at NASA Ames. Starling Swarm Completes Primary Mission The four CubeSat spacecraft that make up the Starling swarm have demonstrated success in autonomous operations, completing all key mission objectives. Image credit: NASA After ten months in orbit, the Starling spacecraft swarm successfully demonstrated its primary mission’s key objectives, representing significant achievements in the capability of swarm configurations in low Earth orbit, including distributing and sharing important information and autonomous decision making. Another Step Forward for BioNutrients Research scientists Sandra Vu, left, Natalie Ball, center, and Hiromi Kagawa, right, process BioNutrients production packs.Image credit: NASA NASA’s BioNutrients entered its fifth year in its mission to investigate how microorganisms can produce on-demand nutrients for astronauts during long-duration space missions. Keeping astronauts healthy is critical and as the project comes to a close, researchers have processed production packs on Earth on the same day astronauts processed production packs in space on the International Space Station to demonstrate that NASA can produce nutrients after at least five years in space, providing confidence it will be capable of supporting crewed missions to Mars. Hyperwall Upgrade Helps Scientists Interpret Big Data The newly upgraded hyperwall visualization system provides four times the resolution of the previous system. Image credit: NASA/Brandon Torres Navarrete Ames upgraded its powerful hyperwall system, a 300-square foot wall of LCD screens with over a billion pixels to display supercomputer-scale visualizations of the very large datasets produced by NASA supercomputers and instruments. The hyperwall is just one way researchers can utilize NASA’s high-end computing technology to better understand their data and advance the agency’s missions and research. Ames Contributions to NASA Artificial Intelligence Efforts This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Ames contributes to the agency’s artificial intelligence work through ongoing research and development, agencywide collaboration, and communications efforts. This year, NASA announced David Salvagnini as its inaugural chief artificial intelligence officer and held the first agencywide town hall on artificial intelligence sharing how the agency is safely using and developing artificial intelligence to advance missions and research. Advanced Composite Solar Sail System Successfully Launches, Deploys Sail Illustration: NASA NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System successfully launched from Māhia, New Zealand, in April, and successfully deployed its sail in August to begin mission operations. The small satellite represents a new future in solar sailing, using lightweight composite booms to support a reflective polymer sail that uses the pressure of sunlight as propulsion. Understanding Our Planet Samuel Suleiman, an instructor on NASA’s OCEANOS student training program, gathers loose corals to place around an endangered coral species to help attract fish and other wildlife, giving the endangered coral a better chance of survivalphoto credit: NASA/Milan Loiacono In 2024, Ames researchers studied Earth’s oceans and waterways from multiple angles – from supporting NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem, or PACE, mission to bringing students in Puerto Rico experiences in oceanography and the preservation of coral reefs. Working with multiple partners, our scientists and engineers helped inform ecosystem management by joining satellite measurements of Earth with animal tracking data. In collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey, a NASA team continued testing a specialized instrument package to stay in-the-know about changes in river flow rates. Revealing the Mysteries of Asteroids in Our Solar System Image credit: NASA Ames researchers used a series of supercomputer simulations to reveal a potential new explanation for how the moons of Mars may have formed: The first step, the findings say, may have involved the destruction of an asteroid. Using NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope, another Ames scientist helped reveal the smallest asteroids ever found in the main asteroid belt. Ames Helps Emerging Space Companies ‘Take the Heat’ A heat shield made by NASA is visible on the blunt, upward-facing side of a space capsule after its landing in the Utah desert.Image credit: Varda Space Industries/John Kraus A heat shield material invented and made at Ames helped to safely return a spacecraft containing the first product processed on an autonomous, free-flying, in-space manufacturing platform. February’s re-entry of the spacecraft from Varda Space Industries of El Segundo, California, in partnership with Rocket Lab USA of Long Beach, California, marked the first time a NASA-manufactured thermal protection material, called C-PICA (Conformal Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator), ever returned from space. Team Continues to Move Forward with Mission to Learn More about Our Star This illustration lays a depiction of the sun’s magnetic fields over an image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on March 12, 2016.Image credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL HelioSwarm’s swarm of nine spacecraft will provide deeper insights into our universe and offer critical information to help protect astronauts, satellites, and communications signals such as GPS. The mission team continues to work toward launching in 2029. CAPSTONE Continues to Chart a New Path Around the Moon CAPSTONE revealed in lunar Sunrise: CAPSTONE will fly in cislunar space – the orbital space near and around the Moon. The mission will demonstrate an innovative spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation solution at the Moon from a near rectilinear halo orbit slated for Artemis’ Gateway.Illustration credit: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter The microwave sized CubeSat, CAPSTONE, continues to fly in a cis-lunar near rectilinear halo orbit after launching in 2022. Flying in this unique orbit continues to pave the way for future spacecraft and Gateway, a Moon-orbiting outpost that is part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, as the team continues to collect data. NASA Moves Drone Package Delivery Industry Closer to Reality A drone is shown flying during a test of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) technical capability Level 2 (TCL2) at Reno-Stead Airport, Nevada in 2016. During the test, five drones simultaneously crossed paths, separated by different altitudes. Two drones flew beyond visual line of sight and three flew within line-of-sight of their operators. More UTM research followed, and it continues today. Image credit: NASA Ames/Dominic Hart NASA’s uncrewed aircraft system traffic management concepts paved the way for newly-approved package delivery drone flights in the Dallas area. NASA’s uncrewed aircraft system traffic management concepts paved the way for newly-approved package delivery drone flights in the Dallas area. NASA Technologies Streamline Air Traffic Management Systems This image shows an aviation version of a smartphone navigation app that makes suggestions for an aircraft to fly an alternate, more efficient route. The new trajectories are based on information available from NASA’s Digital Information Platform and processed by the Collaborative Departure Digital Rerouting tool.Illustration credit: NASA Managing our busy airspace is a complex and important issue, ensuring reliable and efficient movement of commercial and public air traffic as well as autonomous vehicles. NASA, in partnership with AeroVironment and Aerostar, demonstrated a first-of-its-kind air traffic management concept that could pave the way for aircraft to safely operate at higher altitudes. The agency also saw continued fuel savings and reduction in commercial flight delays at Dallas Fort-Worth Airport, thanks to a NASA-developed tool that allows flight coordinators to identify more efficient, alternative takeoff routes. Small Spacecraft Gathers Big Solar Storm Data from Deep Space Illustration of NASA’s BioSentinel spacecraft as it enters a heliocentric orbit.Illustration credit: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter BioSentinel – a small satellite about the size of a cereal box – is currently more than 30 million miles from Earth, orbiting our Sun. After launching aboard NASA’s Artemis I more than two years ago, BioSentinel continues to collect valuable information for scientists trying to understand how solar radiation storms move through space and where their effects – and potential impacts on life beyond Earth – are most intense. In May 2024, the satellite was exposed to a coronal mass ejection without the protection of our planet’s magnetic field and gathered measurements of hazardous solar particles in deep space during a solar storm. NASA, FAA Partner to Develop New Wildland Fire Technologies Artist’s rendering of remotely piloted aircraft providing fire suppression, monitoring and communications capabilities during a wildland fire. Illustration credit: NASA NASA researchers continued to develop and test airspace management technologies to enable remotely-piloted aircraft to fight and monitor wildland fires 24 hours a day. The Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) project seeks to use drones and advanced aviation technologies to improve wildland fire coordination and operations. NASA and Forest Service Use Balloon to Help Firefighters Communicate The Aerostar Thunderhead balloon carries the STRATO payload into the sky to reach the stratosphere for flight testing. The balloon appears deflated because it will expand as it rises to higher altitudes where pressures are lower.Image credit: Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology Aerial Firefighting/Austin Buttlar The Strategic Tactical Radio and Tactical Overwatch (STRATO) technology is a collaborative effort to use high-altitude balloons to improve real-time communications among firefighters battling wildland fires. Providing cellular communication from above can improve firefighter safety and firefighting efficiency. A Fully Reimagined Visitor Center The NASA Ames Visitor Center includes exhibits and activities, sharing the work of NASA in Silicon Valley with the public.Image credit: NASA Ames/Don RIchey The NASA Ames Visitor Center at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California includes a fully reimagined 360-degree experience, featuring new exhibits, models, and more. An interactive exhibit puts visitors in the shoes of a NASA Ames scientist, designing and testing rovers, planes, and robots for space exploration. Ames Collaborations in the Community Former NASA astronauts Yvonne Cagle and Kenneth Cockrell pose with Eli Toribio and Rhydian Daniels at the University of California, San Francisco Bakar ******* Hospital. Patients gathered to meet the astronauts and learn more about human spaceflight and NASA’s ******* research effortsImage credit: NASA Ames/Brandon Torres Navarrete NASA astronauts, scientists, and researchers, and leadership from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) met with ******* patients and gathered in a discussion about potential research opportunities and collaborations as part of President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden’s ******* Moonshot initiative on Oct. 4. During the visit with patients, NASA astronaut Yvonne Cagle and former astronaut Kenneth Cockrell answered questions about spaceflight and life in space. Ames and the University of California, Berkeley, expanded their partnership, organizing workshops to exchange on their areas of technical expertise, including in Advanced Air Mobility, and to develop ideas for the Berkeley Space Center, an innovation hub proposed for development at Ames’ NASA Research Park. Under a new agreement, NASA also will host supercomputing resources for UC Berkeley, supporting the development of novel computing algorithms and software for a wide variety of scientific and technology areas. NASA’s Ames Research Center Celebrates 85 Years of Innovation by Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley pre-dates a lot of things. The center existed before NASA – the very space and aeronautics agency it’s a critical part of today. And of all the marvelous advancements in science and technology that have fundamentally changed our lives over the last 85 years since its founding, one aspect has remained steadfast; an enduring commitment to what’s known by some on-center simply as, “an atmosphere of freedom.” The NACA Ames laboratory in 1944.Image credit: NASA Years before breaking ground at the site that would one day become home to the world’s preeminent wind tunnels, supercomputers, simulators, and brightest minds solving some of the world’s toughest challenges, Joseph Sweetman Ames, the center’s namesake, described a sentiment that would guide decades of innovation and research: “My hope is that you have learned or are learning a love of freedom of thought and are convinced that life is worthwhile only in such an atmosphere,” he said in an address to the graduates of Johns Hopkins University in June 1935. That spirit and the people it attracted and retained are a crucial part of how Ames, along with other N.A.C.A. research centers, ultimately made technological breakthroughs that enabled humanity’s first steps on the Moon, the safe return of spacecraft through Earth’s atmosphere, and many other discoveries that benefit our day-to-day lives. Russell Robinson momentarily looks to the camera while supervising the first excavation at what would become Ames Research Center.Image credit: NACA “In the context of my work, an atmosphere of freedom means the freedom to pursue high-risk, high-reward, innovative ideas that may take time to fully develop and — most importantly — the opportunity to put them into practice for the benefit of all,” said Edward Balaban, a researcher at Ames specializing in artificial intelligence, robotics, and advanced mission concepts. Balaban’s career at Ames has involved a variety of projects at different stages of development – from early concept to flight-ready – including experimenting with different ways to create super-sized space telescopes in space and using artificial intelligence to help guide the path a rover might take to maximize off-world science results. Like many Ames researchers over the years, Balaban shared that his experience has involved deep collaborations across science and engineering disciplines with colleagues all over the center, as well as commercial and academic partners in Silicon Valley where Ames is nestled and beyond. This is a tradition that runs deep at Ames and has helped lead to entirely new fields of study and seeded many companies and spinoffs. Before NASA, Before Silicon Valley: The 1939 Founding of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory “In the fields of aeronautics and space exploration the cost of entry can be quite high. For commercial enterprises and universities pursuing longer term ideas and putting them into practice often means partnering up with an organization such as NASA that has the scale and multi-disciplinary expertise to mature these ideas for real-world applications,” added Balaban. “Certainly, the topics of inquiry, the academic freedom, and the benefit to the public good are what has kept me at Ames,” reflected Ross Beyer, a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute at Ames. “There’s not a lot of commercial incentive to study other planets, for example, but maybe there will be soon. In the meantime, only with government funding and agencies like NASA can we develop missions to explore the unknown in order to make important fundamental science discoveries and broadly share them.” For Beyer, his boundary-breaking moment came when he searched – and found – software engineers at Ames capable and passionate about open-source software to generate accurate, high-resolution, texture-mapped, 3D terrain models from stereo image pairs. He and other teams of NASA scientists have since applied that software to study and better understand everything from changes in snow and ice characteristics on Earth, as well as features like craters, mountains, and caves on Mars or the Moon. This capability is part of the Artemis campaign, through which NASA will establish a long-term presence at the Moon for scientific exploration with commercial and international partners. The mission is to learn how to live and work away from home, promote the peaceful use of space, and prepare for future human exploration of Mars. “As NASA and private companies send missions to the Moon, they need to plan landing sites and understand the local environment, and our software is freely available for anyone to use,” Beyer said. “Years ago, our management could easily have said ‘No, let’s keep this software to ourselves; it gives us a competitive advantage.’ They didn’t, and I believe that NASA writ large allows you to work on things and share those things and not hold them back.” When looking forward to what the next 85 years might bring, researchers shared a belief that advancements in technology and opportunities to innovate are as expansive as space itself, but like all living things, they need a healthy atmosphere to thrive. Balaban offered, “This freedom to innovate is precious and cannot be taken for granted. It can easily fall victim if left unprotected. It is absolutely critical to retain it going forward, to ensure our nation’s continuing vitality and the strength of the other freedoms we enjoy.” Ames Aeronautical Laboratory.Image credit: NACA Today Marks the Retirement of the Astrogram Newsletter by Astrid Albaugh For 66 years, the Astrogram has told the story of NASA’s Ames Research Center. Over those six-plus decades, the newsletter has documented hundreds of missions led by Ames, the progression of Hangar One’s reclamation, space shuttle launches with Ames’ payloads aboard them, countless VIP visits, and everything in between. Ames published the first edition of the Astrogram in October 1958, coinciding with the transition of the center from its original incarnation as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Ames Aeronautical Laboratory to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research center. The newsletter has evolved over time, alongside the center. From October 1958 through January 2016, the Astrogram was published in print, before a digital edition was developed. In January 2016, the Astrogram transitioned to a digital-only format. Below are examples of some of the Astrogram issues from over the years. October 2014 Astrogram September 2010 Astrogram I have served as the editor of the Astrogram since February 1998. Over the past quarter century, it has been an interesting, and sometimes quite challenging, task for me to capture the breadth and depth of Ames’s story and ensure that we always published the newsletter on time. I still remember trekking over to the center’s imaging office to review the physical negatives and images that the Ames photographers had taken of events onsite and select the most compelling photos. I used a very early version of visual design software to craft the layout. When the paper was completed, I’d file it onto a CD and then hand it to the courier who would drive from the San Francisco printshop to pick it up from me. Once and awhile, someone would request to have an additional feature added, requiring multiple trips up the 101 and back. Sometimes I’d come in on the weekends to work on the paper, due to late submissions, much to the chagrin of my kids. July 2007 Astrogram It has been a pleasure serving as the editor over the past quarter century, almost as many years as my kids are old. A person once asked me if I had changed my name to Astrid since it’s so like the word Astrogram. Any relationship between the newsletter and my name is simply serendipity. I have enjoyed being behind the scenes, mostly working diligently at my computer. Many at Ames know my name because of the newsletter but may have never met me in person. It’s been amusing sometimes when I encounter someone who can’t put a finger as to why they knew my name but didn’t recognize me standing in front of them. Their usual response when they realized why they know me was, “Ah, Astrid of the Astrogram.” March 20, 1998 Astrogram Just as NASA innovates, the content of the Astrogram has to innovate as well. Many of the stories that you used to read in the Astrogram, you can now find on our NASA Ames web page here. If you would like to access past, archived issues of the Astrogram, going back to 1958, please consult the Ames Research Center Archives. I will continue to help tell Ames’s story, just using new platforms. Whether this is your first issue or you have been an Astrogram supporter for decades, thank you for reading! – Astrid of the Astrogram officially signing off View the full article