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Orion Deputy Program Manager Debbie Korth Receives 2025 Engineer of the Year Award

By |2025-03-04T05:00:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The National Society of Professional Engineers recently named Debbie Korth, Orion deputy program manager at Johnson Space Center, as NASA’s 2025 Engineer of the Year. Korth was recognized during an award ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 21, alongside honorees from 17 other federal agencies. The annual awards program honors [...]

Sols 4468-4470: A Wintry Mix of Mars Science

By |2025-03-04T01:42:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 2 min [...]

Interview with Sean Colgan

By |2025-03-03T22:48:00-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

I’m really pleased that you agreed to take advantage of this opportunity.  I don’t recall if I have actually met you personally,  but if so, then I apologize for not remembering. I don’t think so, although you’ve certainly signed things for me. Well, I guess I have because I do remember seeing your name [...]

University High Knows the Answers at NASA JPL Regional Science Bowl

By |2025-03-03T15:42:00-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A team from University High School of Irvine, California, won the 2025 regional Science Bowl at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on March 1. From left, co-coach Nick Brighton, sophomores Shloke Kamat and Timothy Chen, juniors Feodor Yevtushenko and Angelina Yan, senior Sara Yu, and [...]

NACA Test Pilot Poses with Plane

By |2025-03-03T15:39:00-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA In this 1957 photo, George Cooper, a test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA, stands next to a North American F-100, a supersonic fighter tested by the NACA. Cooper served as a pilot in World War II before being hired at the NACA’s Ames Aeronautical Laboratory in 1945. Between 1945 [...]

NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in Ohio, Texas

By |2025-03-03T15:14:00-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Space X Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait.Credit: NASA Students from Ohio and Texas will have the chance to hear NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions this week. At 12:55 p.m. EST, Wednesday, March 5, NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit will respond [...]

Station Science Top News: Feb. 27, 2025

By |2025-03-03T15:02:00-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Preventing biofilm formation in space Ashley Keeley, University of Idaho, holds an anti-bacterial coating sample.University of Idaho Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science Team Two anti-microbial coatings reduced formation of biofilms in microgravity and have potential for use in space. Controlling biofilms could help protect human health and prevent corrosion and degradation of equipment on [...]

110 Years Ago: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Founded 

By |2025-03-03T14:55:00-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On March 3, 1915, the United States Congress created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Although the NACA’s founding took place just over 11 years after the Wright Brothers’ first powered flightfirst powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Congress took the action in response to America lagging behind other world powers’ advances in [...]

35 Years Ago: STS-36 Flies a Dedicated Department of Defense Mission

By |2025-03-03T13:23:00-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On Feb. 28, 1990, space shuttle Atlantis took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on STS-36, the sixth shuttle mission dedicated to the Department of Defense. As such, many of the details of the flight remain classified. The mission marked the 34th flight of the space shuttle, the sixth for Atlantis, and the [...]

Metal 3D Printing and Heart Health Kicks Off March on Station

By |2025-03-03T12:45:00-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

A starry night sky and an atmospheric glow blanket Earth’s horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station orbiting 257 miles above Southeast Asia at 12:42 a.m. local time.NASA Metal 3D printing and cardiovascular health kicked off the research schedule at the beginning of the week for the Expedition 72 crew. Crew arrival preparations [...]

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