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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY An apprentice at Langley Laboratory (now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia) inspects wind tunnel components in this image from May 15, 1943. During World War II, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the precursor to NASA, employed apprentices (which NASA has since transitioned into internships) to supportContinue reading “Langley Laboratory Apprentice at Work”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10,000 years ago, the Veil Nebula is situatedContinue reading “Hubble Captures New View of Colorful Veil”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA Science at AMS Hyperwall Schedule, January 13-16, 2025 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #401) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, JANUARY 13 6:10 – 6:25 PMThe Golden Age of Ocean Science: How NASA’s Newest Missions Advance the Study of Oceans in ourContinue reading “Commodity Classic Hyperwall Schedule”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, Bohdan Wesely, right, and Eli Hiss, left, complete a fit check of the two halves of a space capsule that will study the clouds of Venus for signs of life. Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and theirContinue reading “NASA Installs Heat Shield on First Private Spacecraft Bound for Venus”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander (IM-2) soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The lander is set to land on the Moon on March 6. The NASA science and technology demonstrationsContinue reading “Intuitive Machines-2 Lifts Off”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected eight participating scientists to join its Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These asteroids are remnants of our early solar system trapped on stable orbits associated with – but not close to – the planet Jupiter.  NASA’s Lucy in the L4 Trojans Participating Scientist Program supports scientistsContinue reading “NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join Lucy Asteroid Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don’t see is a swarm of nearly three dozen small satellite galaxies circling the Andromeda galaxy, like bees around aContinue reading “NASA’s Hubble Provides Bird’s-Eye View of Andromeda Galaxy’s Ecosystem”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The next set of NASA science and technology demonstrations is on its way to the lunar surface, where they will gather data about Earth’s nearest neighbor and help pave the way for American astronauts to explore the Moon and beyond, for the benefit of all. Carrying NASA instruments as partContinue reading “Liftoff! NASA Tech, Science En Route to Moon with Intuitive Machines”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University Earth planning date: Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 The fine detail of the image above reminds us once again that geoscience — on Mars and on Earth — is an observational science. If you look at the image for a fewContinue reading “Sols 4466-4468: Heading Into the Small Canyon”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY John Boyd, known to many as Jack and whose career spanned more than seven decades in a multitude of roles across NASA as well as its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), died Feb. 20. He was 99. Born in 1925, and raised in Danville, Virginia, he wasContinue reading “NASA Remembers Long-Time Civil Servant John Boyd”