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Tech Today: NASA’s Moonshot Launched Commercial Fuel Cell Industry 

By |2024-07-15T15:39:00-04:00July 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) HyAxiom’s 440-kilowatt phosphoric acid fuel cell is now its flagship product, and it still builds on technical know-how developed under the Apollo and space shuttle programs.Credit: HyAxiom Inc. NASA’s investment in fuel cells dates to the 1960s when most of the world was still [...]

NASA, Universities Take Learning Out of Classroom

By |2024-07-15T15:36:00-04:00July 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

From left, team members Annie Meier, Malay Shah, and Jamie Toro assemble the flight hardware for NASA’s Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor, or OSCAR, on Oct. 10, 2019, in the Space Station Processing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. OSCAR began as an Early Career Initiative project at the spaceport that studies [...]

NASA Transmits Hip-Hop Song to Deep Space for First Time

By |2024-07-15T15:03:00-04:00July 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This illustration of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior. A new study suggests coronae reveal locations where active geology is shaping Venus’ surface. The stars [...]

“The Meatball’ Turns 65

By |2024-07-15T14:47:00-04:00July 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Painters work on the official NASA insignia, nicknamed “the meatball,” on the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 29, 2020.NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA’s official logo, nicknamed the “meatball,” turned 65 on July 15, 2024. The insignia dates back to 1959, when the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) metamorphosed into an agency [...]

NASA’s Webb Investigates Eternal Sunrises, Sunsets on Distant World

By |2024-07-15T11:00:00-04:00July 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Min Read NASA’s Webb Investigates Eternal Sunrises, Sunsets on Distant World Artists concept of WASP-39 b (full image below). Near-infrared spectral analysis of terminator confirms differences in morning and evening atmosphere Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have finally confirmed what models have previously predicted: An exoplanet has differences between its eternal [...]

Sky High Sustainability: NASA Johnson’s Pocket Prairie Flourishes Atop Building 12

By |2024-07-15T09:50:00-04:00July 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Buzzing with bees, baby birds, and wildflowers, the rooftop garden atop building 12 at Johnson Space Center in Houston reflects NASA’s commitment to environmental stewardship. Originally constructed in 1963, the facility was transformed in 2012, incorporating energy-efficient features that earned it LEED Gold certification. The certification is a globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement and [...]

NASA Cloud-Based Platform Could Help Streamline, Improve Air Traffic

By |2024-07-12T21:07:00-04:00July 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This image shows an aviation version of a smartphone navigation app that makes suggestions for an aircraft to fly an alternate, more efficient route. The new trajectories are based on information available from NASA’s Digital Information Platform and processed by the Collaborative Departure Digital [...]

Sols 4241–4242: We Can’t Go Around It…We’ve Got To Go Through It!

By |2024-07-12T17:57:00-04:00July 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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NASA to Commemorate 55th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing

By |2024-07-12T17:28:00-04:00July 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 moonwalk on July 20, 1969. The Lunar Module is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the moon.Credit: NASA As the agency explores more of the Moon than [...]

Two Years Since Webb’s First Images: Celebrating with the Penguin and the Egg

By |2024-07-12T13:01:00-04:00July 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The distorted spiral galaxy at center, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical at left, the Egg, are locked in an active embrace. This near- and mid-infrared image combines data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), and marks the telescope’s second year of science. Webb’s view shows that their [...]

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