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NASA Announces Winners of 2024 Student Launch Competition

By |2024-06-14T16:20:00-04:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) High school and collegiate student teams gathered just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to participate in the agency’s annual Student Launch competition April 13. Credits: NASA/Charles Beason Over 1,000 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched high-powered, [...]

NASA Joins National Space Council in Celebration of Black Space Week

By |2024-06-14T15:38:00-04:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Victor Glover reviews procedures on a computer for the Monoclonal Antibodies Protein Crystal Growth (PCG) experiment inside the Harmony module. Each year, Black Space Week celebrates the achievements of Black Americans in space-related fields. To kick-off Black [...]

NASA to Discuss Outcome of 5th Biennial Asteroid Threat Exercise

By |2024-06-14T15:02:00-04:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Representatives from NASA, FEMA, and the planetary defense community participate in the fifth Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise on April 2 and 3, 2024, to discuss the nation’s ability to respond effectively to the threat of a potentially hazardous asteroid or comet.Credits: NASA/JHU-APL/Ed Whitman NASA will host a virtual media briefing at 3:30 p.m. EDT, [...]

NASA-Led Mission to Map Air Pollution Over Both U.S. Coasts

By |2024-06-14T14:30:00-04:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This summer between June 17 and July 2, NASA will fly aircraft over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California to collect data on air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.   The campaign supports the NASA Student Airborne Research Program for undergraduate interns. Two [...]

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility to Launch Student Experiments

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

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket carrying students experiments for the RockOn! mission successfully launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Aug. 17, 2023 at 6 a.m. EDT.NASA/ Kyle Hoppes More than 50 student and faculty teams are sending experiments into space as part of NASA’s [...]

Summary of the Ninth DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting

By |2024-06-14T13:50:00-04:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Earth Observer Earth and Climate Earth Observer Home Editor’s Corner Feature Articles News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam More Meeting Summaries Archives 22 min read Summary of the Ninth DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting Introduction The ninth Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) and National Institute of [...]

NASA’s Hubble Restarts Science in New Pointing Mode

By |2024-06-14T13:34:00-04:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read NASA’s Hubble Restarts Science in New Pointing Mode This image of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was taken on May 19, 2009 after deployment during Servicing Mission 4. NASA NASA successfully transitioned operations for the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope to an alternate operating mode that uses one gyro, returning the spacecraft to [...]

NASA’s LRO Spots China’s Chang’e 6 Spacecraft on Lunar Far Side

By |2024-06-14T13:05:00-04:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This image from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows China’s Chang’e 6 lander in the Apollo basin on the far side of the Moon on June 7, 2024. The lander is the bright dot in the center of the image. The image is about 0.4 miles wide (650 meters); lunar north is up.Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University [...]

Johnson Celebrates LGBTQI+ Pride Month: Meet Michael Chandler

By |2024-06-14T12:30:00-04:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Michael Chandler has provided configuration and data management support at Houston’s Johnson Space Center for the last 13 years. After roughly seven years supporting the Exploration Systems Development Division, Chandler transitioned to the Moon to Mars Program Office in 2019. He and his team work to ensure that the baseline for Moon to Mars products, [...]

Human Factors Researcher Garrett Sadler

By |2024-06-14T12:12:00-04:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

“I graduated in 2008, so that job market was not super great, and I ended up with this very unusual job working for this guy who thought that he had some new theory of physics that he wanted to work on. And so I was responsible for creating little computer simulations, trying to resemble [...]

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