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ASSURE 2016

By |2024-08-28T19:58:00-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Home ASSURE 2016 has successfully concluded. UPDATES New! 2016-09-30: ASSURE 2016 concluded successfully. The accepted papers appear in the SAFECOMP 2016 Workshop Proceedings. Thank you for attending! See you in 2017. 2016-07-18: Clive Tomsett, Clinical Strategist at the Cerner Corporation, will give an invited keynote talk! 2016-07-18: The ASSURE 2016 Program has been announced. The final program is contingent on registration. [...]

Assure 2015

By |2024-08-28T17:21:00-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Home ASSURE 2015 has successfully concluded. UPDATES 2015-10-05: ASSURE 2015 concluded successfully. The accepted papers appear in the SAFECOMP 2015 Workshop Proceedings. Thank you for attending! See you in 2016. 2015-06-24: Pippa Moore of the UK Civil Aviation Authority will give an invited keynote talk! 2015-06-24: The ASSURE 2015 Program has been announced. The final program is contingent on registration. If [...]

The Marshall Star for August 28, 2024

By |2024-08-28T16:45:00-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

27 Min Read The Marshall Star for August 28, 2024 Marshall Leadership Updates Team Members on Culture, Strategy By Wayne Smith Leadership from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center highlighted a successful summer before looking ahead to the center’s culture and strategy during an all-hands meeting Aug. 27 in Building 4316. Marshall Director Joseph Pelfrey [...]

NASA Expands Human Exploration Rover Challenge to Middle Schools

By |2024-08-28T16:11:00-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The cover of the HERC 2025 handbook, which is now available online. By Wayne Smith Following a 2024 competition that garnered international attention, NASA is expanding its Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) to include a remote control division and inviting middle school students to [...]

A SAFER Way

By |2024-08-28T15:24:00-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA On Sept. 16, 1994, astronaut Mark C. Lee tested out the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system, a system designed for use in the event a crew member becomes untethered while conducting a spacewalk. Occurring during the STS-64 mission, this was the first untethered U.S. spacewalk in 10 years. This SAFER test was [...]

First NASA-Supported Researcher to Fly on Suborbital Rocket

By |2024-08-28T14:30:00-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) University of Florida researcher Rob Ferl (seated) and co-principal investigator Anna-Lisa Paul practice the experiment to study the effect of gravity transitions on the plants’ gene expression.University of Florida For the first time, a NASA-funded researcher will fly with their experiment on a commercial [...]

NASA Assigns Astronaut Jonny Kim to First Space Station Mission

By |2024-08-28T13:17:00-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Official portrait of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim in an EMU suit.Credit: NASA During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft in March 2025, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts [...]

NASA Project in Puerto Rico Trains Students in Marine Biology

By |2024-08-28T12:55:00-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

7 Min Read NASA Project in Puerto Rico Trains Students in Marine Biology A forested green peninsula of Culebra Island juts into the blue waters of the Caribbean as a rain storm hits in the distance. The teal blue surrounding the island indicates shallow waters, home to the island's famous coral reefs. Credits: NASA [...]

NASA Pilot Program Continues to Award Small Business Innovators 

By |2024-08-28T12:34:00-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Earlier this month, nine small businesses received 2023 NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Ignite Phase II awards to further develop technologies that may be used in the agency’s missions and in the commercial space industry.  The SBIR Ignite Phase II awardees, who will receive up to $850,000 to fund their projects, are developing [...]

NASA, SpaceX Extend US Media Deadline for Crew-9 Launch to Station

By |2024-08-28T12:18:00-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance crew ship, carrying four Crew-5 members, approaches the International Space Station with the Earth’s horizon in the background. Credit: NASA/Kjell Lindgren NASA is extending U.S. media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ninth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the [...]

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