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- Collegiate Teams to Focus on Aviation Solutions for Agriculture in 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition NASA · 6 Aug 2024 In the 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, the theme is AgAir: Aviation Solutions for Agriculture. NASA asks collegiate teams to investigate either new or improved aviation capabilities that could assist the agricul...
- Artemis Emergency Egress System Emphasizes Crew Safety NASA · 6 Aug 2024 Since NASA began sending astronauts to space, the agency has relied on emergency systems for personnel to safely leave the launch pad and escape the hazard in the unlikely event of an emergency during the launch countdow...
- Tech Today: Flipping NASA Tech and Sticking the Landing NASA · 6 Aug 2024 NASA tech adds gecko grip to phone accessory
- NASA budget pressures create opportunities for smallsats SpaceNews · 6 Aug 2024 Tight budgets for NASA could provide new opportunities for smallsats that have increasingly demonstrated their capability to perform low-cost science missions.
- ISRO Astronauts To Begin Training At NASA for Upcoming ISS Missions The Launch Pad · 6 Aug 2024 ISRO Astronauts To Begin Training At NASA for Upcoming ISS Missions
- NASA Seeks Student Missions to Send to Space in 2026, Beyond NASA · 5 Aug 2024 NASA announced a new round of opportunities for CubeSat, developers to build spacecrafts on that will fly on upcoming launches through the agency’s CSLI (CubeSat Launch Initiative). CubeSats are a class of small spacecra...
- Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut crew named, begins training in Houston Spaceflight Now · 5 Aug 2024 Ax-4 will mark the first time an astronaut from India or Poland visits the International Space Station. The mission will be commanded by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, making her second trip to the ISS on behalf of...
- Disaster Response Coordination System (DRCS) Formally Launches NASA · 5 Aug 2024 The NASA Disasters Response Coordination System (DRCS) formally launched on 6/13/24 during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters with Administrator Nelson as the keynote speaker. The DRCS is a revamped one NASA approach in how...
- Coming in Hot – NASA’s Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets NASA · 5 Aug 2024 This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. The blue haloes represent stars observed with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. Astronomers are using these X-ray data to determine h...
- Snowstorm Field Campaign Wins Prestigious Presidential Rank Group Achievement Award NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Personnel from the MSFC Earth Science Branch and local partners participated in the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS), and they are members of the IMPACTS...
- KNaCK LIDAR Technology Demonstration at 5th Joint EVA Test Team (JETT5) Field Compaign, Flagstaff, Arizona NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Michael Zanetti (ST13), Kyle Miller (EV42), and Chris Whetsel (ES52) conducted a technology demonstration and field work with the NASA JSC 5th Joint EVA Test Team (JETT-3) from 5/17-23/24, near SP Crater, Flagstaff, AZ....
- SERVIR Science Coordination Office (SCO) and Bhutan’s Implementing Partners Launch Farm Action Toolkit Service NASA · 5 Aug 2024 On 5/13/24, in alignment with the NASA Interagency Agreement with the US Department of State Advancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in Bhutan through Increased Earth Observation Capacity, Aparna R. Phalke,...
- Participation at the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Resource Event on Capitol Hill NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Manil Maskey (ST11/IMPACT) represented NASA at a discussion on the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot program held on Capitol Hill. The event brought together key members of the House AI Cau...
- NASA and IBM Collaborate to Develop INDUS Large Language Models for Advanced Science Research NASA · 5 Aug 2024 A collaboration between IMPACT and IBM has produced INDUS, a comprehensive suite of large language models (LLMs) tailored for the domains of Earth science, biological and physical sciences, heliophysics, planetary scienc...
- NASA Ocean Winds Proposal Selected NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Timothy Lang (ST11) is the Principal Investigator and Aaron Kaulfus (ST11) is a Co-Investigator (Co-I) on a proposal titled “Using CYGNSS with a suite of spaceborne remote sensing datasets to probe tropical maritime cold...
- NASA, LASP Sign Agreement To Advance Space Weather Research, Modeling NASA · 5 Aug 2024 NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder enacted a collaborative Space Act Agreement Monday, Aug. 5...
- TEMPO-EMIT Synergy: Enhancing Applications of GHG and Air Pollutant Observations over Key Emission Sources NASA · 5 Aug 2024 A proposal entitled, “TEMPO-EMIT synergy: Enhancing applications of GHG (greenhouse gas) and air pollutant observations over key emission sources,” was selected for funding through a NASA cross-mission product opportunit...
- AstroViz: Iconic Pillars of Creation Star in NASA’s New 3D Visualization NASA · 5 Aug 2024 NASA’s Universe of Learning – a partnership among the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Caltech/IPAC, the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and part of the NASA S...
- NASA, EPA Tackle NO2 Air Pollution in Overburdened Communities NASA · 5 Aug 2024 NASA data about nitrogen dioxide, a harmful air pollutant, is available in EJScreen, EPA’s widely used environmental justice screening and mapping tool.
- When Teachers Become the Students: Educators Spend Summer Studying STEM Engagement at Johnson NASA · 5 Aug 2024 The summer months are usually a time for teachers to take a break from the classroom and enjoy some well-earned rest. But at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, two experienced educators dedicated their summer vacati...
- ‘Current’ Events: NASA and USGS Find a New Way to Measure River Flows NASA · 5 Aug 2024 A team of scientists and engineers at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated to see if a small piloted drone, equipped with a specialized payload, could help create detailed maps of how fast water is flo...
- NASA likely to significantly delay the launch of Crew 9 due to Starliner issues Ars Technica · 5 Aug 2024 The primary reason for the delay is rather surprising.
- How Do I Navigate NASA Learning Resources and Opportunities? NASA · 5 Aug 2024 NASA offers a variety of platforms and resources to support kindergarten through college educators in bringing the excitement of exploration and discovery to students in the classroom and beyond. From in-depth lesson pla...
- NASA Engagement Platform Brings Experts to Classrooms, Communities NASA · 5 Aug 2024 With a new school year on the horizon, NASA is introducing a platform to connect communities with agency experts to share their experiences working on agency missions and programs for the benefit of humanity. Continuing...
- Europa Clipper Solar Array Alignment and Install NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Technicians move NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to accommodate installation of its five-panel solar array at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Aug...
- NASA Sends More Science to Space, More Strides for Future Exploration NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Biological and physical investigations aboard the Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply mission NG-21 included experiments studying the impacts of zero gravity on grass, how packed bed reactors could improve water purific...
- Lagniappe for August 2024 NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Explore Lagniappe for August 2024 featuring: Gator Speaks The roll out of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) Artemis II core stage from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on July 16 brought warm feelings to th...
- NASA Stennis Flashback: Shuttle Team Achieves Unprecedented Milestone NASA · 5 Aug 2024 As chief of test operations at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, Maury Vander has been involved in some long-duration propulsion hot fires – but he still struggles to describe a pair of 34-minute space shuttle main engine tes...
- NASA’s Stennis Space Center Announces New Deputy Director NASA · 5 Aug 2024 NASA’s Stennis Space Center Director John Bailey announced Aug. 2 that longtime propulsion engineer/manager Christine Powell has been selected as deputy director of the south Mississippi propulsion site, effective Aug. 1...
- NASA Inspires Employee to Reach Full Potential NASA · 5 Aug 2024 NASA employee Kim Johnson’s desire for growth has taken her many places and continues unabated at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The D’Iberville, Mississippi, resident is a contracting offic...
- NASA Trains Machine Learning Algorithm for Mars Sample Analysis NASA · 5 Aug 2024 When a robotic rover lands on another world, scientists have a limited amount of time to collect data from the troves of explorable material, because of short mission durations and the length of time to complete complex...
- NASA Furthers Aeronautical Innovation Using Model-Based Systems NASA · 5 Aug 2024 As NASA continues cutting-edge aeronautics research, the agency also is taking steps to make sure the benefits from these diverse technologies are greater than the sum of their parts. To tackle that challenge, NASA is us...
- Using data from DART’s impact, scientists investigate characteristics of Dimorphos and Didymos NASASpaceflight · 4 Aug 2024 In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully slammed into the side of asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. Initial data from the event indicated that DART had successfully altered the orb...
- NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 21st Northrop Grumman Mission to Station NASA · 4 Aug 2024 Following a successful launch of NASA’s Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound for the International Space Station. Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spac...
- Indian astronauts to start training for ISS mission SpaceNews · 3 Aug 2024 Two Indian astronauts will soon start training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, with one of them flying to the International Space Station on an upcoming private astronaut mission.
- GAO Questions Gateway’s Mass, Schedule SpacePolicyOnline.com · 3 Aug 2024 The Government Accountability Office wants NASA to document and communicate a mass management plan for the Gateway lunar space station before the next program review in September. The first two
- NASA and SpaceX launch a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station Spaceflight Now · 3 Aug 2024 The mission, dubbed NG-21, will be the second out of three planned launches of a Cygnus spacecraft onboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Sunday, Aug. 4, at 11:02 a.m. EDT (1502 UTC).
- NASA retaining plans to select a single Artemis lunar rover SpaceNews · 2 Aug 2024 NASA is not reconsidering plans to select only one company to develop an Artemis lunar rover, despite a setback in another program procuring key elements of the lunar exploration effort as a service.
- GAO Reports NASA’s Lunar Gateway May Have "Stack Controllability." Issue With Starship The Launch Pad · 2 Aug 2024 GAO Reports NASA’s Lunar Gateway May Have "Stack Controllability." Issue With Starship
- NASA Johnson Dedicates Dorothy Vaughan Center to Women of Apollo NASA · 2 Aug 2024 On the eve of the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston commemorated the unsung heroes who helped make humanity’s first steps on the Moon possible. To celebrate their endu...