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- Students Soar at NASA Glenn’s Aviation Day NASA · 19 Sep 2024 For students considering careers in STEM, the field of aviation offers diverse and abundant opportunities they may never have realized. During Aviation Day on Aug. 27, NASA Glenn Research Center’s Office of STEM Engageme...
- Ohio State Fairgoers Learn About NASA Technologies NASA · 19 Sep 2024 NASA Glenn Research Center’s Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) and Office of Communications staff traveled to the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio, this summer. OSTEM participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open th...
- Dr. Kenyon Makes Calls, On and Off the Field NASA · 19 Sep 2024 As the director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Dr. Jimmy Kenyon is used to making important decisions at work. He also likes to call the shots on the baseball field as a volunteer umpire. In July, Kenyon p...
- NASA Glenn Attends Air Shows in Cleveland and Wisconsin NASA · 19 Sep 2024 The first “A” in NASA stands for aeronautics, and NASA’s Glenn Research Center helped bring that message to thousands of people at major airshows in Wisconsin and Ohio this summer. In July, NASA Glenn subject matter expe...
- NASA Glenn Attends Air Shows in Cleveland and Michigan NASA · 19 Sep 2024 The first “A” in NASA stands for aeronautics, and NASA’s Glenn Research Center helped bring that message to thousands of people at major airshows in Wisconsin and Ohio this summer. In July, NASA Glenn subject matter expe...
- The Marshall Star for September 18, 2024 NASA · 18 Sep 2024 Marshall Welcomes NASA Chief Scientist for Climate, Science Town Hall NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Kate Calvin, center left, joins team members at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center for a Climat...
- NASA Deputy Administrator Talks Future of Agency in Silicon Valley NASA · 18 Sep 2024 NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy spent time at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, on Sept. 16, 2024, engaging with center leaders and employees to discuss strategies that could drive meaningf...
- NASA Shares Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Remarks NASA · 18 Sep 2024 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his remarks as prepared for Wednesday’s Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards recognized the women who contributed to the space race, including...
- Giant Leaps Start at Johnson for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Nick Hague NASA · 18 Sep 2024 As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston holds a variety of unique responsibilities and privileges. Those include being the home of NASA’s astronaut corps. One of those astronauts – Nick Ha...
- NASA, US Department of Education to Launch STEM Project in Washington NASA · 18 Sep 2024 Media are invited to the kickoff event of a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Department of Education at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, at the Wheatley Education Campus in Washington. The interagency project, 21st Ce...
- Rob Gutro: Clear Science in the Forecast NASA · 18 Sep 2024 Rob Gutro has never been one to stay idle. From his start working at a paper factory as a teenager, Rob navigated his way to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where he serves as the deputy news chief in the Office of Co...
- NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions NASA · 18 Sep 2024 Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” and the wide semicirc...
- Lunar company Intuitive Machines’ stock jumps more than 40% after NASA moon satellite contract CNBC · 18 Sep 2024 Intuitive Machines’ stock jumped in early trading Wednesday after NASA awarded the lunar-focused company a major contract to build moon data satellites.
- NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson’s Scientific Mission aboard Space Station NASA · 18 Sep 2024 NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is returning home after a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. While on orbit, Dyson conducted an array of experiments and technology demonstrations that contribute to a...
- Reinventing the Clock: NASA’s New Tech for Space Timekeeping NASA · 18 Sep 2024 Here on Earth, it might not matter if your wristwatch runs a few seconds slow. But crucial spacecraft functions need accuracy down to one billionth of a second or less. Navigating with GPS, for example, relies on precise...
- NASA selects Intuitive Machines for lunar communications and navigation services SpaceNews · 18 Sep 2024 Intuitive Machines has won a NASA contract worth up to $4.8 billion to provide communications and navigation services at the moon to support the Artemis lunar exploration campaign.
- Measuring Moon Dust to Fight Air Pollution NASA · 17 Sep 2024 Moon dust, or regolith, isn’t like the particles on Earth that collect on bookshelves or tabletops – it’s abrasive and it clings to everything. Throughout NASA’s Apollo missions to the Moon, regolith posed a challenge to...
- NASA Selects Lunar Relay Contractor for Near Space Network Services NASA · 17 Sep 2024 NASA has awarded a contract to Intuitive Machines, LLC of Houston, to support the agency’s lunar relay systems as part of the Near Space Network, operated by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Marylan...
- NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Develop Lightning Mapper for NOAA NASA · 17 Sep 2024 NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to develop a lightning mapping instrument as part of NOAA’s Geostationary Extended...
- NASA Marshall to Present 2024 Small Business Awards Sept. 19 NASA · 17 Sep 2024 NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, invites media to its annual Small Business Industry and Advocate Awards ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 19. The awards recognize small businesses and small business...
- Johnson Space Center Ignites STEM Passion at Houston’s Japan Festival NASA · 17 Sep 2024 From Sept. 6-7, 2024, NASA’s Johnson Space Center brought the excitement of space exploration to the annual Japan Festival at Hermann Park in Houston. The lively cultural event featured traditional food, dance, martial a...
- A key NASA commercial partner faces severe financial challenges Ars Technica · 17 Sep 2024 "The business model had to change."
- ICESat-2 Hosts Third Applications Workshop NASA · 17 Sep 2024 Introduction The NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 mission (ICESat-2), launched September 15, 2018, continues the first ICESat mission, delivering invaluable global altimetry data. Notwithstanding its icy a...
- El pódcast en español de la NASA regresa con una nueva temporada NASA · 17 Sep 2024 Read this news release in English here. Para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana, la NASA publica nuevos contenidos para Universo curioso de la NASA, el primer pódcast en español de la agencia, que inicia ahora su seg...
- NASA’s Spanish-language Podcast Returns for New Season NASA · 17 Sep 2024 Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, NASA is releasing new content for Universo curioso de la NASA, the agency’s first Spanish-language podcast, now in its second seas...
- Hubble finds more black holes in the early Universe ESA · 17 Sep 2024 With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led by scientists in the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University has found more black holes in the early Universe than ha...
- 8 Things to Know About NASA’s Mission to an Ocean Moon of Jupiter Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 17 Sep 2024 The first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying an ocean world beyond Earth, Europa Clipper aims to find out if the ice-encased moon Europa could be habitable.
- Technicians Work to Prepare Europa Clipper for Propellant Loading NASA · 17 Sep 2024 NASA’s Europa Clipper mission moves closer to launch as technicians worked on Wednesday, Sept. 11, inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to prepare the spacecraft for upcoming propellant loading at the agency’s...
- Celebrating the First Earth Day Event at NASA Headquarters NASA · 17 Sep 2024 Introduction Organized by the Science Mission Directorate’s Science Support Office (SSO), NASA hosted its 12th annual Earth Day Celebration event from April 18–19, 2024. For the first time ever, the two-day event was hel...
- NASA Completes Spacecraft to Transport, Support Roman Space Telescope NASA · 17 Sep 2024 The spacecraft bus that will deliver NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to its orbit and enable it to function once there is now complete after years of construction, installation, and testing. Now that the spacecr...
- Rob Garner: Editing Goddard’s Story to Fit the Space NASA · 17 Sep 2024 News Chief Rob Garner shares NASA Goddard’s story with the public, supporting writers and creators in the Office of Communications. Name: Rob GarnerTitle: News ChiefFormal Job Classification: Senior public affairs specia...
- 8 Things to Know About NASA’s Mission to an Ocean Moon of Jupiter NASA · 17 Sep 2024 The first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying an ocean world beyond Earth, Europa Clipper aims to find out if the ice-encased moon Europa could be habitable. NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest the agency has...
- NASA’s Hubble Finds More Black Holes than Expected in the Early Universe NASA · 17 Sep 2024 With the help of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led by scientists in the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University has found more black holes in the early universe than has prev...
- 65 Years Ago: First Powered Flight of the X-15 Hypersonic Rocket Plane NASA · 17 Sep 2024 The X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, built by North American Aviation (NAA), greatly expanded our knowledge of flight at speeds exceeding Mach 6 and altitudes above 250,000 feet. A joint project among NASA, the U...
- NASA, GE Aerospace Advancing Hybrid-Electric Airliners with HyTEC NASA · 17 Sep 2024 Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now. Soon that same idea of a part-electric-, part-gas-powered engine may find its way into the skies propelling a future jet airliner. NASA is working i...
- Going Back-to-School with NASA Data NASA · 16 Sep 2024 As students head back to school, teachers have a new tool that brings NASA satellite data down to their earthly classrooms. For over 50 years of observing Earth, NASA’s satellites have collected petabytes of global scien...
- NASA Mobilizes Resource for HBCU Scholars, Highlighted at Conference NASA · 16 Sep 2024 NASA will spotlight its program to engage underrepresented and underserved students in science, technology, engineering, and math at the 2024 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Week Conference i...
- NASA Veteran Kevin McCormick Joins Desert Works Propulsion as Senior Master Technician SpaceNews · 16 Sep 2024 New Mexico – Desert Works Propulsion, leading provider of electric propulsion (EP) expertise as a service, is thrilled to welcome Kevin McCormick as the Senior Master Technician. We congratulate Kevin
- 55 Years Ago: Space Task Group Proposes Post-Apollo Plan to President Nixon NASA · 16 Sep 2024 The Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 completed the goal set by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth before the end of the decade. At the time, NASA planned nine mor...
- NASA Johnson Honors Hispanic Heritage: Meet Manuel Retana NASA · 16 Sep 2024 Manuel Retana arrived in the U.S. at 15 years old, unable to speak English and with nothing but a dream and $200 in his pocket. Now, he plays a crucial role implementing life support systems on spacecraft that will carry...