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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC) has selected six visionary concept studies for additional funding and development. Each study has already completed the initial NIAC phase, showing their futuristic ideas – like a lunar railway system and fluid-based telescopes – may provide fresh perspectives and approaches as NASA explores theContinue reading “NASA Doubles Down, Advances Six Innovative Tech Concepts to New Phase”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore launches aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station Monday, May 6 on its first crewed flight, one of his best friends will have played a key role in getting him there.  Billy Stover, chief safety officer for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and WilmoreContinue reading “NASA Mission Strengthens 40-Year Friendship “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On May 4, 1989, space shuttle Atlantis took off on its third flight, STS-30, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander David M. Walker, Pilot Ronald J. Grabe, and Mission Specialists Mark C. Lee, Norman E. Thagard, and Mary L. Cleave flew a four-dayContinue reading “35 Years Ago: STS-30 Launches Magellan to Venus”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronomers have discovered enormous circular radio features of unknown origin around some galaxies. Now, new observations of one dubbed the Cloverleaf suggest it was created by clashing groups of galaxies. Studying these structures, collectively called ORCs (odd radio circles), in a different kind of light offered scientists a chance toContinue reading “X-ray Satellite XMM-Newton Sees ‘Space Clover’ in a New Light”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Marshall Prepares for Strategic Facilities Updates  NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is getting ready for the next big step in the evolution of its main campus. Through a series of multi-year infrastructure projects, Marshall is optimizing its footprint to assure its place as a vibrant and vital hub for theContinue reading “The Marshall Star for May 1, 2024”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected BAE Systems (formerly known as Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation) of Boulder, Colorado, to develop an instrument to monitor air quality and provide information about the impact of air pollutants on Earth for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended ObservationsContinue reading “NASA Selects BAE Systems to Develop Air Quality Instrument for NOAA”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Brianna ClementsHowe Industries The future of a space-faring civilization will depend on the ability to move both cargo and humans efficiently and rapidly. Due to the extremely large distances that are involved in space travel, the spacecraft must reach high velocities for reasonable mission transit times. Thus, a propulsion systemContinue reading “Pulsed Plasma Rocket (PPR): Shielded, Fast Transits for Humans to Mars”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Mary KnappMIT Humankind has never before seen the low frequency radio sky. It is hidden from ground-based telescopes by the Earth’s ionosphere and challenging to access from space with traditional missions because the long wavelengths involved (meter- to kilometer-scale) require infeasibly massive telescopes to see clearly. Electromagnetic radiation at theseContinue reading “The Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW)”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Stephen PollyRochester Institute of Technology In this project we will continue our Phase I efforts to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a revolutionary power source for missions to the outer planets utilizing a new paradigm in thermal power conversion, the thermoradiative cell (TRC). Operating like a solar cell inContinue reading “Radioisotope Thermoradiative Cell Power Generator”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Edward BalabanNASA ARC The future of space-based UV/optical/IR astronomy requires ever larger telescopes. The highest priority astrophysics targets, including Earth-like exoplanets, first generation stars, and early galaxies, are all extremely faint, which presents an ongoing challenge for current missions and is the opportunity space for next generation telescopes: larger telescopesContinue reading “Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE): Enabling the Next Generation of Large Space Observatories”