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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On April 8, 1964, Gemini 1 successfully completed the first uncrewed test flight of the Gemini spacecraft and its Titan II booster. The three-orbit mission proved the structural integrity of the spacecraft and the launch vehicle, paving the way for a second uncrewed test flight and ultimately missions with astronauts.Continue reading “60 Years Ago: Gemini 1 Flies a Successful Uncrewed Test Flight”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Mercury 7 On April 9, 1959, reporters and news media crammed into the ballroom of the Dolley Madison House in Washington—the location of NASA Headquarters at that time—to learn the names of the first American astronauts who came to be known as the Mercury 7. Public Information Director WalterContinue reading “From NASA’s First Astronaut Class to Artemis II: The Importance of Military Jet Pilot Experience”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA selected nine finalists out of the 45 semifinalist student essays in the Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes. Contestants were challenged to explore how NASA has powered some of its most famous science missions and to dream up howContinue reading “NASA Names Finalists of the Power to Explore Challenge”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara returned to Earth after a six-month research mission aboard the International Space Station on Saturday, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya. The trio departed the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at 11:54 p.m. EDT on April 5, andContinue reading “NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Crewmates Return from Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Associate Administrator Jim Free are scheduled to speak at the Space Foundation’s 39th Space Symposium from Tuesday, April 9 through Thursday, April 11 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. During her keynote, “Responsible Exploration: Preserving the Cosmos for Tomorrow,” Melroy will discuss NASA’s integrated approach toContinue reading “NASA Leadership Spotlights Space Sustainability at Space Symposium”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Fourteen undergraduate and graduate teams from across the country were selected as finalists to compete in one of NASA’s longest running student challenges — the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition. The competition fuels innovation and challenges undergraduate and graduate teams to develop new concepts to improveContinue reading “NASA Selects University Teams to Compete in 2024 RASC-AL Competition”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to study changes in the Sun’s radiation as it reaches Earth before, during, and after the total solar eclipse April 8. Weather sensors similar to what is used on daily weatherContinue reading “NASA Langley Team to Study Weather During Eclipse Using Uncrewed Vehicles”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY While visiting NASA Headquarters in Washington on March 19, 2024, astronauts Stephen Bowen, left, Frank Rubio, Warren Hoburg, and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, right, posed for a photo wearing solar viewing glasses (“eclipse glasses”). Eclipse glasses with the ISO 12312-2 international standard or a safe handheld solar viewer areContinue reading “Astronauts Protect Their Eyes with Eclipse Glasses”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter), which has been circling and studying the Moon for 15 years, captured several images of Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s Danuri lunar orbiter last month. The two spacecraft, traveling in nearly parallel orbits, zipped past each other in opposite directions between March 5 and 6, 2024.Continue reading “NASA’s LRO Finds Photo Op as It Zips Past SKorea’s Danuri Moon Orbiter”

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