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Sols 4236-4238: One More Time… for Contact Science at Mammoth Lakes

By |2024-07-06T13:13:00-04:00July 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Mars Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions All Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus [...]

The NASA Breath Diagnostics Challenge

By |2024-07-05T16:00:00-04:00July 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The NASA Breath Diagnostics challenge tasks solvers to leverage their expertise to develop a classification model that can accurately discriminate between the breath of COVID-positive and COVID-negative individuals, using existing data. The ultimate goal is to improve the accuracy of the NASA E-Nose device as a potential clinical tool that would provide diagnostic results [...]

NASA Science Activation Teams Present at National Rural STEM Summit

By |2024-07-05T12:55:00-04:00July 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read NASA Science Activation Teams Present at National Rural STEM Summit NASA Science Activation (SciAct) teams participated in the National Rural STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) Summit held June 4-7, 2024 in Tucson, Arizona. Hosted by Kalman Mannis of the Rural Activation and Innovation Network (Arizona Science Center) and the SciTech [...]

Eight CubeSats Lift Off for NASA on Firefly Aerospace Rocket!

By |2024-07-04T14:04:00-04:00July 4th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket leaves a glowing trail above the skies of Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 3, 2024. Firefly Aerospace/Trevor Mahlmann As part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, Firefly Aerospace launched eight small satellites on July 3 aboard the company’s Alpha rocket. Named “Noise of Summer,” the rocket successfully lifted off [...]

Sols 4234-4235: And That’s (Nearly) a Wrap on Mammoth Lakes!

By |2024-07-03T21:02:00-04:00July 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Mars Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions All Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus [...]

The Marshall Star for July 3, 2024

By |2024-07-03T16:09:00-04:00July 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

30 Min Read The Marshall Star for July 3, 2024 11 Marshall Team Members, 5 Teams Awarded in Space Flight Awareness Ceremony By Jessica Barnett Sixteen individuals and groups from across NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center were recognized June 27 for going above and beyond in their support of the human space program. Marshall [...]

Former NASA Chief Astronaut Patrick Forrester Retires

By |2024-07-03T13:47:00-04:00July 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

July 3, 2024 RELEASE: J24-011 Former Chief Astronaut Patrick Forrester NASA NASA astronaut Patrick G. Forrester retired June 29, after a career spanning 31 years of service and three spaceflights. He went on to become chief of NASA’s Astronaut Office, and most recently served as an advisor to the associate administrator for the Space Operations [...]

Orion on the Rise

By |2024-07-03T13:02:00-04:00July 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Radislav Sinyak Technicians lift NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell on June 28, 2024. The integrated spacecraft, which will be used for the Artemis II mission to orbit the Moon, has been undergoing final rounds of testing and assembly, including end-to-end performance verification of its subsystems and checking for [...]

NASA Announces its Artemis II Backup Crew Member for Moon Mission

By |2024-07-03T10:15:00-04:00July 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Andre Douglas poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.Credits: NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as its backup crew member for the agency’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign. Douglas will train alongside NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina [...]

NASA’s Planetary Radar Tracks Two Large Asteroid Close Approaches

By |2024-07-03T10:02:00-04:00July 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered 500-foot-wide (150-meter-wide) asteroid 2024 MK, which made its closest approach — within about 184,000 miles (295,000 kilometers) of Earth — on June 29.NASA/JPL-Caltech The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids [...]

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