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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Introduction The ninth Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Radiometer [NISTAR] Science Team Meeting (STM) was held virtually October 16–17, 2023. Over 35 scientists attended, most of whom were from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), with severalContinue reading “Summary of the Ninth DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY More than 50 student and faculty teams are sending experiments into space as part of NASA’s RockOn and RockSat-C student flight programs. The annual student mission, “RockOn,” is scheduled to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, on a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket Thursday, June 20, with a launch window that opensContinue reading “NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility to Launch Student Experiments”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA successfully transitioned operations for the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope to an alternate operating mode that uses one gyro, returning the spacecraft to daily science operations Friday. The telescope and its instruments are stable and functioning normally. Hubble went into safe mode May 24 due to an ongoing issue withContinue reading “NASA’s Hubble Restarts Science in New Pointing Mode”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged China’s Chang’e 6 sample return spacecraft on the far side of the Moon on June 7. Chang’e 6 landed on June 1, and when LRO passed over the landing site almost a week later, it acquired an image showing the lander on the rimContinue reading “NASA’s LRO Spots China’s Chang’e 6 Spacecraft on Lunar Far Side”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Michael Chandler has provided configuration and data management support at Houston’s Johnson Space Center for the last 13 years. After roughly seven years supporting the Exploration Systems Development Division, Chandler transitioned to the Moon to Mars Program Office in 2019. He and his team work to ensure that the baselineContinue reading “Johnson Celebrates LGBTQI+ Pride Month: Meet Michael Chandler”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY “I graduated in 2008, so that job market was not super great, and I ended up with this very unusual job working for this guy who thought that he had some new theory of physics that he wanted to work on. And so I was responsible for creating little computerContinue reading “Human Factors Researcher Garrett Sadler”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 2005. It’s not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself, but it is a peculiarity when compared to its surroundings. NGC 2005 is located about 750 light-years from the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which is the Milky Way’s largestContinue reading “Hubble Captures a Cosmic Fossil”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media are invited in late July to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see progress on the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket as preparations continue for the Artemis II test flight around the Moon. Participants joining the multi-day events will see the arrival and unloading of theContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to See Artemis II Moon Rocket Elements at Kennedy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY “Don’t let the NASA emblem scare you away. “I was very intimidated by it because it was a childhood dream [to make it to NASA]. I saw a picture of me at Kennedy Space [Center’s] visitor center the last time I went home. I must have been five years old.Continue reading “Transportation Officer Melissa Coleman”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Although surrounded by the big and bold missions of human spaceflight, Margaret Kennedy, an aerospace systems engineer on the Human Health and Performance Contract, still appreciates the little things. Ask about her favorite NASA experience to date and she will tell you it is getting to show her badge toContinue reading “Johnson Celebrates LGBTQI+ Pride Month: Meet Margaret Kennedy”