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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Current and former employees of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida gathered recently to celebrate the installation of a Florida Historical Marker cast in bronze at the location of the spaceport’s old headquarters building. The first of its kind inside the center’s secure area, the marker is the latest exampleContinue reading “NASA Preserves Its Past at Kennedy While Building Future of Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge.  Since 2020, competitors from around the world have competedContinue reading “The Marshall Star for June 18, 2024”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Owing to NASA’s Quesst mission and Commercial Supersonic Technology project, there is growing industry interest in commercial aircraft that fly faster than the speed of sound. In 2020, NASA funded two independent studies to investigate the economic viability of this potential market for high-speed commercial flight. Since then, NASA hasContinue reading “High-Speed Market Studies”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY June 18, 2024 At NASA we always say that exploration enables science, and science enables exploration. During a recent, quick trip to Tokyo, Japan with our Associate Administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD), Cathy Koerner, I had an opportunity to share this message with our partners atContinue reading “Artemis, Architecture, and Lunar Science: SMD and ESDMD Associate Administrators visits Tokyo”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has awarded the Goddard Logistics Services Contract to TRAX International Corporation of Las Vegas to provide logistics services and management for NASA missions. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes a base period and up to five options with a potential contract value of approximately $265 million if all options are exercised.Continue reading “NASA Awards Logistic Services, Management Contract”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build the spacecraft for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $2.27 billion. It includes the development of three spacecraft as well asContinue reading “NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Build Next-Gen Spacecraft for NOAA”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) mission. The two-hour launch window opens at 5:16 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 25, for the satellite’s launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch ComplexContinue reading “NASA Sets Launch Coverage for NOAA Weather Satellite”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been immortalized at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington as the latest awardee of the Robert J. Collier Trophy. Bestowed annually by the National Aeronautic Association, the trophy recognizes groundbreaking aerospace achievements. OSIRIS-REx, formally the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security –Continue reading “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Etched into Collier Trophy, Aerospace History”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The crew aboard the International Space Station captured this image of Galveston, Texas, the birthplace of Juneteenth, as the station orbited 224 miles above on Nov. 23, 2011. In the early 1800s, slavers periodically used Galveston Island as an outpost for operations. By 1860, about one-third of Galveston’s population lived underContinue reading “Celebrating Juneteenth”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Introduction The 2023 Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place October 17–19, 2023, at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), in College Park, MD. Upwards of 80 people participated in the hybrid meeting (around 50 in-person and the rest virtually). Included among them were GEDIContinue reading “Summary of the 2023 GEDI Science Team Meeting”