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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY If you ask Johnson Space Center employees why they work for NASA, many will tell you it was always their dream. For others, landing a job at NASA was an unexpected stop on their career path. Here is a look at where five Johnson team members worked before NASA andContinue reading “How It Started, How It’s Going: Johnson Space Center Edition”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY With the historic first international space docking mission only six months away, preparations on the ground for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) intensified. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, workers in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) stacked the rocket for the mission, the final Saturn rocket assembled forContinue reading “50 Years Ago: Preparing the Final Saturn Rocket for Flight”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it — the flickering star is 2.2 million light-years away, and is 1/100,000th the brightness of the faintest star visible to the human eye.Continue reading “NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on its way to our nearest celestial neighbor aboard a commercial spacecraft, where they will provide insights into the Moon’s environment and test technologies to support future astronauts landing safely on the lunar surface under the agency’s Artemis campaign. CarryingContinue reading “Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Roman Coronagraph Instrument will greatly advance our ability to directly image exoplanets, or planets and disks around other stars. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, a technology demonstration designed and built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will fly aboard NASA’s next flagship astrophysics observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. CoronagraphsContinue reading “Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Poster”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI), the primary instrument aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 300-megapixel visible and infrared camera that will allow scientists to perform revolutionary astrophysics surveys.   This specialized camera detects faint light across the cosmos and will be used to study a wide range of astrophysicsContinue reading “Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument Poster”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as it went. When the shockwave reached the star’s surface, it punched through, generating a brief, intense pulse of X-rays and ultraviolet light that traveled outward into the surroundingContinue reading “NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY An adult Alamosaurus sports eclipse glasses outside of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, on April 6, 2024. Two days later, the total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse wasContinue reading “Best of 2024: Dinosaur Prepared to Safely Watch Solar Eclipse”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the agency is preparing to fly ten instruments aboard Firefly Aerospace’s first delivery to the Moon. These science payloads and technology demonstrations will help advance our understanding of the Moon and planetary processes, while paving the wayContinue reading “Ten NASA Science, Tech Instruments Flying to Moon on Firefly Lander”

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