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The Light, Dark, and Dusty Trifid

By |2024-08-10T09:09:22-04:00August 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Messier 20, popularly known as the Trifid Nebula, lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate three different types of astronomical nebulae; red emission nebulae dominated by light from hydrogen atoms, blue reflection [...]

SWE Speaks With Two NASA Astronauts Aboard the International Space Station

By |2024-08-09T16:29:00-04:00August 9th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

In this video and transcript, NASA astronauts Tracy Dyson and Suni Williams discuss their life and work during an in-flight interview with two leaders from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Source

Empowering Women in Government: A Year of Impactful Events by the Women in Government Affinity Group

By |2024-08-08T12:33:00-04:00August 8th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Each month throughout the year, we spotlight a SWE Affinity Group. Learn more about the Women in Government Affinity Group's activities in the past fiscal year. Source

Milky Way Behind Three Merlons

By |2024-08-07T09:09:10-04:00August 7th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day To some, they look like battlements, here protecting us against the center of the Milky Way. The Three Merlons, also called the Three Peaks of Lavaredo, stand tall today because they are made of dense dolomite rock which has better resisted erosion than surrounding softer rock. They formed about 250 [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 272: Communicating to Non-Technical Audiences With TED Speaker Melissa Marshall

By |2024-08-06T09:56:00-04:00August 6th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Present your technical work more effectively with tips and strategies from Melissa Marshall in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast! Source

Gaia: Here Comes the Sun

By |2024-08-04T09:09:06-04:00August 4th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day What would it look like to return home from outside our galaxy? Although designed to answer greater questions, data from ESA's robotic Gaia mission is helping to provide a uniquely modern perspective on humanity's place in the universe. Gaia orbits the Sun near the Earth and resolves stars' positions so [...]

SpaceX Crew-9 Pilot Nick Hague

By |2024-08-02T19:08:55-04:00August 2nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

jsc2024e052326 (July 22, 2024) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Pilot Nick Hague smiles in his flight suit at SpaceX’s new Dragon refurbishing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX Crew-9 Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov

By |2024-08-02T19:08:54-04:00August 2nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

jsc2024e052334 (June 23, 2024) --- SpaceX Crew-9 Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov of NASA's Commercial Crew Program poses for a portrait in his flight suit at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX Crew-9 Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson

By |2024-08-02T19:08:53-04:00August 2nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

jsc2024e052333 (June 23, 2024) --- SpaceX Crew-9 Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson of NASA's Commercial Crew Program poses for a portrait in her flight suit at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX

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