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HuskyWorks During Rover Testing

By |2024-06-21T10:10:00-04:00June 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

“HuskyWorks,” a team from Michigan Technological University’s Planetary Surface Technology Development Lab, tests the excavation tools of a robot on a concrete slab, held by a gravity-offloading crane on June 12 at NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge at Alabama A&M’s Agribition Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Led by Professor Paul van Susante, the team aimed to mimic the conditions of the lunar South Pole, winning [...]

Hubble Captures Infant Stars Transforming a Nebula

By |2024-06-21T07:45:00-04:00June 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read Hubble Captures Infant Stars Transforming a Nebula This striking NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nebula RCW 7. ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chalmers University & University of Virginia), R. Fedriani This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. Named RCW 7, the [...]

55 Years Ago: One Month Until the Moon Landing

By |2024-06-20T17:51:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

With the dress rehearsal completed during Apollo 10 in May 1969, only a few weeks remained until Apollo 11, the actual Moon landing mission to meet President Kennedy’s goal set in 1961. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin and their backups James A. Lovell, William A. Anders, and [...]

Marshall Research Scientist Enables Large-Scale Open Science

By |2024-06-20T17:45:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Marshall Research Scientist Enables Large-Scale Open Science Rahul Ramachandran is a senior research scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA By Jessica Barnett  Most people use tools at work, whether it’s a hammer, a pencil, or a computer. Very few seek a doctorate degree in creating new tools for the [...]

NASA Releases Updated Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience Plan

By |2024-06-20T16:18:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Artist’s concept of the Earth drawn from data from multiple satellite missions and created by a team of NASA scientists and graphic artists. Credit: NASA Images By Reto Stöckli, Based On Data From NASA And NOAA NASA joined more than 20 federal agencies in releasing its updated Climate Adaptation Plan Thursday, helping expand the Biden-Harris [...]

NASA, Partners Conduct Fifth Asteroid Impact Exercise, Release Summary

By |2024-06-20T15:55:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Representatives from NASA, FEMA, and the planetary defense community participate in the 5th Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise to inform and assess our ability as a nation to respond effectively to the threat of a potentially hazardous asteroid or comet.Credits: NASA/JHU-APL/Ed Whitman For the benefit of all, NASA released a summary Thursday of the fifth [...]

NASA’s Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with “Rose” of Galaxies

By |2024-06-20T14:38:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble’s eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is distorted into [...]

NASA Invites Media to ‘NASA in the Park’ June 22

By |2024-06-20T14:12:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Downtown Huntsville Inc. Media are invited to attend a celebration of space and the Rocket City during NASA in the Park on Saturday, June 22, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CDT at Big Spring Park East in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA and partners will pack the park with [...]

Augmented Reality Speeds Spacecraft Construction at NASA Goddard

By |2024-06-20T14:04:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Augmented reality tools have helped technicians improve accuracy and save time on fit checks for the Roman Space Telescope being assembled at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. In one instance, manipulating a digital model of Roman’s propulsion system into the real telescope structure revealed the planned design would not fit around [...]

Why Scientists Are Intrigued by Air in NASA’s Mars Sample Tubes

By |2024-06-20T14:01:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Perseverance rover viewed these dust devils swirling across the surface of Mars on July 20, 2021. Scientists want to study the air trapped in samples being collected in metal tubes by Perseverance. Those air samples could help them better understand the Martian atmosphere.NASA/JPL-Caltech [...]

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