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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Marshall Leadership Updates Team Members on Culture, Strategy By Wayne Smith Leadership from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center highlighted a successful summer before looking ahead to the center’s culture and strategy during an all-hands meeting Aug. 27 in Building 4316. Marshall Director Joseph Pelfrey recapped milestone events of the pastContinue reading “The Marshall Star for August 28, 2024”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Wayne Smith Following a 2024 competition that garnered international attention, NASA is expanding its Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) to include a remote control division and inviting middle school students to participate. The 31st annual competition is scheduled for April 11-12, 2025, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center,Continue reading “NASA Expands Human Exploration Rover Challenge to Middle Schools”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Sept. 16, 1994, astronaut Mark C. Lee tested out the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system, a system designed for use in the event a crew member becomes untethered while conducting a spacewalk. Occurring during the STS-64 mission, this was the first untethered U.S. spacewalk in 10 years.Continue reading “A SAFER Way”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY For the first time, a NASA-funded researcher will fly with their experiment on a commercial suborbital rocket. The technology is one of two NASA-supported experiments, also known as payloads, funded by the agency’s Flight Opportunities program that will launch aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket system on a flightContinue reading “First NASA-Supported Researcher to Fly on Suborbital Rocket”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft in March 2025, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. The trioContinue reading “NASA Assigns Astronaut Jonny Kim to First Space Station Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Tainaliz Marie Rodríguez Lugo took a deep breath, adjusted her snorkel mask, and plunged into the ocean, fins first. Three weeks earlier, Rodríguez Lugo couldn’t swim. Now the college student was gathering data on water quality and coral reefs for a NASA-led marine biology project in Puerto Rico, where sheContinue reading “NASA Project in Puerto Rico Trains Students in Marine Biology”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Aug. 28, 2009, space shuttle Discovery began its 37th trip into space. The 17A mission to the International Space Station was the 30th shuttle flight to the orbiting lab. During the 14-day mission, the seven-member STS-128 crew worked with Expedition 20, the first six-person crew aboard the station, duringContinue reading “15 Years Ago: STS-128 Delivers Cargo to Enable Six-Person Space Station Crew”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earlier this month, nine small businesses received 2023 NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Ignite Phase II awards to further develop technologies that may be used in the agency’s missions and in the commercial space industry.  The SBIR Ignite Phase II awardees, who will receive up to $850,000 to fundContinue reading “NASA Pilot Program Continues to Award Small Business Innovators “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is extending U.S. media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ninth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The application period for U.S. media and U.S.Continue reading “NASA, SpaceX Extend US Media Deadline for Crew-9 Launch to Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Extreme wildfires like these will continue to have a large impact on global climate. Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, NASA scientists have found. That’s comparable in magnitude to the annual fossil fuel emissionsContinue reading “New NASA Study Tallies Carbon Emissions From Massive Canadian Fires”