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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Science Activation Program’s NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC) is working alongside the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) to launch the 2025 Aviation Weather Mission. The mission will engage cadets (students ages 11-20) and senior members to collect aviation-relevant observations including airport conditions, Global Learning and Observations to Benefit theContinue reading “2025 Aviation Weather Mission: Civil Air Patrol Cadets Help Scientists Study the Atmosphere with GLOBE Clouds”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Chris Wade is a visiting vehicle integration manager for SpaceX vehicles in the International Space Station Transportation Integration Office. He plays a key role in ensuring that all vehicle requirements are on track to support SpaceX missions to the space station. Chris also manages a team of real-time mission supportContinue reading “Station Nation: Meet Chris Wade, Visiting Vehicle Integration Manager for SpaceX Vehicles “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission, which aims to understand why, when, and where tropical convective storms form, and why some storms produce extreme weather. The mission will launch on the company’sContinue reading “NASA Awards Launch Service for Mission to Study Storm Formation”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-supported research and development team is making it easier for farmers and ranchers to manage their water resources. The team, called OpenET, created the Farm and Ranch Management Support (FARMS) tool, which puts timely, high-resolution water data directly in the hands of individuals andContinue reading “FARMing with Data: OpenET Launches new Tool for Farmers and Ranchers”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6. The company’s Nova-C lunar lander is slated to land in Mons Mouton, a lunar plateau near the Moon’s South Pole, as part of NASA’s CLPS (CommercialContinue reading “NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Second Private Moon Landing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific What Are Messier Objects? During the 18th century, astronomer and comet hunter Charles Messier wanted to distinguish the ‘faint fuzzies’ he observed from any potential new comets. As a result, Messier cataloged 110 objects in the night sky, ranging from star clustersContinue reading “March’s Night Sky Notes: Messier Madness”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3, when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track Earth-based navigation signals on the Moon’s surface.   The LuGRE payload’s success in lunar orbit and on the surface indicates that signals from theContinue reading “NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The shadow of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander can be seen in this photo from the Moon, taken after landing on March 2, 2025. The lander safely delivered a suite of 10 NASA science and technology instruments; these instruments will operate on the lunar surface for approximately one lunarContinue reading “Blue Ghost Lands on Moon”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On March 2, 1995, space shuttle Endeavour launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its eighth trip into space, on the STS-67 Astro-2 mission. The crew included Commander Stephen Oswald, Pilot William Gregory, Mission Specialists John Grunsfeld, Wendy Lawrence, and Tamara Jernigan – who served as payload commanderContinue reading “30 Years Ago: STS-67, the Astro-2 Mission “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show “3 Body Problem.” There’s no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icyContinue reading “NASA’s Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio”