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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Read this release in English here. La NASA rendirá homenaje a la nueva generación de candidatos a astronautas para el programa Artemis durante su acto de graduación, a las 10:30 a.m. hora del este del miércoles 5 de marzo en el Centro Espacial Johnson de la agencia en Houston. Después de completarContinue reading “Nuevos astronautas de Artemis se gradúan y la NASA hará la cobertura”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media are invited to attend an open house from 10 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at Great Lakes Science Center, home of the NASA Glenn Visitor Center. During the open house, news outlets will get a preview of the Science Center’s Total Eclipse Fest, which is scheduled toContinue reading “NASA, Great Lakes Science Center to Host Eclipse Media Preview Day”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When the second CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) delivery is launched to the Moon in mid-February, its NASA payloads will include an experiment that could change how human explorers, rovers, and spacecraft independently track their precise location on the Moon and in cis-lunar space. Demonstrating autonomous navigation, the Lunar Node-1Continue reading “NASA to Demonstrate Autonomous Navigation System on Moon”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Daniel Andrews, project manager for NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) (left), stands next to a full-scale model of the rover alongside visitors from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA): Dr. Hitoshi Kuninaka, Vice President of JAXA and Director General of JAXA’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS);Continue reading “NASA Ames Hosts JAXA Leader to Discuss Space Science and Spaceflight”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Workforce statement and memo to employees. JPL statement issued on Feb. 6, 2024: After exhausting all other measures to adjust to a lower budget from NASA, and in the absence of an FY24 appropriation from Congress, we have had to make the difficult decision to reduce the JPL workforce throughContinue reading “JPL Workforce Update”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Feb. 3, 1984, space shuttle Challenger took off on its fourth flight, STS-41B. Its five-person crew of Commander Vance D. Brand, Pilot Robert L. “Hoot” Gibson, and Mission Specialists Ronald E. McNair, Robert L. Stewart, and Bruce McCandless flew an eight-day mission ending with the first return to NASA’sContinue reading “40 Years Ago: STS-41B, the First Flight of the Manned Maneuvering Unit”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman exits the side of a mockup of the Orion spacecraft during a training exercise in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Jan. 23, 2024. As part of training for their mission around the Moon next year theContinue reading “First Artemis Moon Crew Trains for Return to Earth”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Procurement manager Sislyn “Pauline” Barrett takes great joy in helping people go beyond what they think they can. Name: Sislyn “Pauline” Barrett Title: Procurement Manager Formal Job Classification: Supervisory Contract Specialist (1102) Organization: Engineering Procurement Office, Procurement Division (Code 175) What do you do and what is most interesting aboutContinue reading “Sislyn ‘Pauline’ Barrett: Procuring the Perfect Engineering Services”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The most powerful events in the known universe – gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) – are short-lived outbursts of the highest-energy light. They can erupt with a quintillion (a 10 followed by 18 zeros) times the luminosity of our Sun. Now thought to announce the births of new black holes, they wereContinue reading “Gamma-ray Bursts: Harvesting Knowledge From the Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY It’s easy to measure fuel in tanks on Earth, where gravity pulls the liquid to the bottom. But in space, the game changes. Quantifying fuel that’s floating around inside a spacecraft’s tank isn’t so simple. “Because of the very small amount of gravity, fluid doesn’t settle to the bottom ofContinue reading “NASA Tests New Spacecraft Propellant Gauge on Lunar Lander”