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The Marshall Star for June 12, 2024

By |2024-06-12T17:10:00-04:00June 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

25 Min Read The Marshall Star for June 12, 2024 Shining Stars: Marshall Teams Support Successful Crew Flight Test By Wayne Smith From preparing for flight readiness, to providing day-of-launch support, to delivering a critical piece of replacement hardware, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center played an integral role in the agency’s crew flight test [...]

NASA Selects Raytheon Company to Build Landsat Next Instruments

By |2024-06-12T16:20:00-04:00June 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credits: NASA NASA selects Raytheon Company to provide three instruments and related services, with an option for one additional instrument, in support of the Landsat Next mission based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The contract includes a cost-plus-award-fee base period and a cost-plus-fixed-fee option period with a total value of $506.7 [...]

Lakita Lowe: Leading Space Commercialization Innovations and Fostering STEM Engagement 

By |2024-06-12T14:25:00-04:00June 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Lakita Lowe is at the forefront of space commercialization, seamlessly merging scientific expertise with visionary leadership to propel NASA’s commercial ambitions and ignite a passion for STEM in future generations. As a project integrator for NASA’s Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP), Lowe leverages her extensive background in scientific research and biomedical studies to [...]

Quirky Circling Behavior in Mice Informs Research on Humans in Space

By |2024-06-12T14:15:00-04:00June 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

During the Rodent Research-1 (RR-1) mission flown to the ISS in 2014, videos that were taken to observe the mice revealed an unusual behavior that researchers are still working to understand. Young (16-week-old) but not old (32-week-old) mice engaged in a high level of ‘running’ behavior beginning within two weeks of launch (Sci Reports, 2019). [...]

A Solitary Sight

By |2024-06-12T14:14:00-04:00June 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA, ESA/Andreas Mogensen ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen snapped a photo of the waning gibbous moon from the International Space Station as it soared 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean near the northeast coast of South America on Sept. 30, 2023. Waning gibbous is one of eight moon phases, occurring after the full [...]

Coming in Hot — NASA’s Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets

By |2024-06-12T13:26:00-04:00June 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Movie: Cal Poly Pomona/B. Binder; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are close enough that they could be prime targets for direct imaging searches for planets using future [...]

NASA’s Roman Mission Gets Cosmic ‘Sneak Peek’ From Supercomputers

By |2024-06-12T10:00:00-04:00June 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Researchers are diving into a synthetic universe to help us better understand the real one. Using supercomputers at the U.S. DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, scientists have created nearly 4 million simulated images depicting the cosmos as NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded [...]

NASA Ames Hosts National Wildfire Coordinating Group

By |2024-06-11T20:46:00-04:00June 11th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NWCG Executive Board members stand in front of giant turbines in the National Full Scale Aerodynamic Complex during their visit to Ames Research Center on May 23, 2024. USAF/Patrick Goulding On May 21-23, 2024, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) visited NASA Ames Research [...]

NASA Selects 2024 Small Business, Research Teams for Tech Development

By |2024-06-11T17:08:00-04:00June 11th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA logo. Credit: NASA NASA will award funding to nearly 250 small business teams to develop new technologies to address agency priorities, such as carbon neutrality and energy storage for various applications in space and on Earth. The new awards from NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program invest [...]

NASA Program Sends University Payloads to Space

By |2024-06-11T16:42:00-04:00June 11th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Flight Opportunities program sent two university payloads on suborbital flight tests onboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity on June 8 when it launched from Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The payloads carrying scientific research from University of California, Berkeley and Purdue University [...]

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