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NASA, NAACP Partner to Advance Diversity, Inclusion in STEM Fields

By |2024-09-19T19:34:00-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NAACP Board Chair Leon Russell, left, and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, right, sign a Space Act Agreement between NASA and the NAACP during a 5th Annual Hidden Figures Street Naming Anniversary event Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building [...]

NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Crewmates Return

By |2024-09-19T18:08:00-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Roscosmos Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft is pictured docked to the International Space Station’s Prichal module in this long-duration photograph as it orbited 258 miles above Nigeria.Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, will depart from the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, and return [...]

55 Years Ago: Celebrations for Apollo 11 Continue as Apollo 12 Prepares to Revisit the Moon

By |2024-09-19T17:31:00-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

In September 1969, celebrations continued to mark the successful first human Moon landing two months earlier, and NASA prepared for the next visit to the Moon. The hometowns of the Apollo 11 astronauts held parades in their honor, the postal service recognized their accomplishment with a stamp, and the Smithsonian put a Moon rock on [...]

NASA’s Hidden Figures Honored with Congressional Gold Medals

By |2024-09-19T17:25:00-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read NASA’s Hidden Figures Honored with Congressional Gold Medals Sen. Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV), delivers remarks during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony recognizing NASA’s Hidden Figures, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky A simple turn of phrase was all it took for [...]

By |2024-09-19T16:28:00-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

NASA astronaut Nick Hague (left) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission no earlier than 2:05 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept.. 26 Credit: SpaceX Coverage is set for NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who are scheduled to launch [...]

NASA Grants to Strengthen Diversity in Engineering, STEM Fields

By |2024-09-19T16:25:00-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Students participating in NASA’s Minority University Research AND Education Project (MUREP) Innovation and Tech Transfer Idea Competition on-site experience. Credit: Josh Valcarcel NASA is awarding $7.2 million to six minority-serving institutions to grow initiatives in engineering-related disciplines and fields for learners who have historically been underrepresented and underserved in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Crewmates to Head to Kennedy Ahead of Launch

By |2024-09-19T16:20:00-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Nick Hague (left) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission no earlier than 2:05 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept.. 26 Credit: SpaceX Coverage is set for NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who are scheduled to launch [...]

NASA’s Chandra Finds Galaxy Cluster That Crosses the Streams

By |2024-09-19T14:33:00-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Xiamen Univ./C. Ge; Optical: DESI collaboration; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found a galaxy cluster has two streams of superheated gas crossing one another. This result shows that crossing the streams may lead to the creation of new structure. Researchers have discovered an enormous, comet-like tail of hot [...]

Station Crew Demonstrates AI Assistant and Ultra-High Res Camera

By |2024-09-19T14:11:00-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

Star trails, streaks of city lights, and two Soyuz crew ships are pictured as the space station orbited above central China. The Expedition 71 crew demonstrated advanced technologies including artificial intelligence and ultra-high-resolution photography aboard the International Space Station on Thursday. The orbital residents also performed vein scans, packed a spacecraft for departure, and maintained [...]

I am Artemis: Chris Pereira

By |2024-09-19T13:48:00-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

As RS-25’s operations integrator, Chris Pereira is responsible for ensuring that the many pieces of the program – from tracking on-time procurement of supplies and labor loads to coordinating priorities on various in-demand machine centers – come together to deliver a quality product.Credit: Mike Labbe, L3Harris Technologies Chris Pereira can personally attest to the immense [...]

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