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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When you think about national park and public land astronomy programs, you might picture remote locations far from city lights. But a recent NASA Earth to Sky training, funded by NASA’s Science Activation Program, challenges that assumption, demonstrating how urban parks, wildlife refuges, museums, and green spaces can be incredibleContinue reading “From City Lights to Moonlight: NASA Training Shows How Urban Parks Can Connect Communities with Space Science”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc. of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to provide custodial, janitorial, landscaping, and recycling services for the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Facilities Custodial and Landscaping award is a firm-fixed-price hybrid completion and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The contract includes one 12-month baseContinue reading “NASA Awards Custodial, Landscaping Services Contract”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The NASA Community College Network (NCCN) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) have teamed up to provide an exciting and impactful program that brings top astronomy researchers into the classrooms of community colleges around the United States. The Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureship Program, named for astronomer Harlow Shapley (1885-1972), hasContinue reading “NASA Helps Connect Astronomers and Community Colleges Across the Nation”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY 2025-2026 DWU: Middle School Aviation Challenge Challenge Theme AgAir: Integrating UAS into the Agriculture Industry The agricultural industry is an important part of life in the US and around the world by providing food, fuel, economic development, and more. It has been increasingly important to strategically improve the agricultural industryContinue reading “2025-2026 DWU: Middle School Aviation Challenge”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Savannah Bullard One year after winning second place in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, members of the small business Starpath visited NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of their prize opportunity to test their upgraded lunar regolith excavation and transportation rover in the center’sContinue reading “Lunar Challenge Winner Tests Technology in NASA Thermal Vacuum Chamber”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY 2025-2026 DWU: High School Engineering Challenge Challenge Materials Challenge Materials The 2025 Challenge Materials are coming soon. Register now to get copies as soon as they are released. Overview: What is an Uncrewed Aircraft System?  An uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) can be defined as an aircraft without an operator orContinue reading “2025-2026 DWU: High School Engineering Challenge”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Golden sunglint highlights Lake Balkhash in this May 31, 2016, photo taken from the International Space Station. The large lake in Kazakhstan is one of the largest lakes in Asia and is the 15th largest lake in the world. Since the space station became operational in November 2000, crew membersContinue reading “Golden Lake”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Listen to this audio excerpt from Diamond St. John, engineer working on the Artemis III heat shield for the Orion Program at Lockheed Martin: For four-generations, Diamond St. John’s family has been supporting human spaceflight at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Now, she’s continuing the family legacy that reachesContinue reading “I Am Artemis: Diamond St. John”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that’s hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab). NGC 2775 sports a smooth, featureless center that is devoid of gas, resembling an elliptical galaxy. It alsoContinue reading “Hubble Captures Puzzling Galaxy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA’s understanding of space weather by measuring radiation exposure to air travelers and validating global radiation maps used in flight path planning. This unique data also has value beyond the Earth as a celestial roadmap for using the same instrumentation to monitorContinue reading “NASA Flights Study Cosmic Ray Effects for Air, Future Space Travelers”