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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY From left, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jenni Gibbons, NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman participate in a media day event on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center inContinue reading “Media Day with Artemis II Crews”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Students from Hawthorne Elementary School in Boise, Idaho, will have the chance to hear NASA astronaut Don Pettit answer their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) related questions from aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 12:30 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 10, on NASA+ andContinue reading “Idaho Students to Connect with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, or LEXI, instrument is one of 10 payloads aboard the next lunarContinue reading “NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Explore Lagniappe for January 2025 featuring: Gator Speaks This time of year is one Gator enjoys. The ending of one year and beginning of another provides the opportunity to reflect, reset, and refocus. This is true at NASA Stennis, a place that powers space dreams, or for someone who enjoysContinue reading “Lagniappe for January 2025”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Climate researchers from NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) will release their annual assessments of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2024 during a media briefing at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 10. NASA will share the briefing on the agency’s website at: https://www.nasa.gov/live. ParticipantsContinue reading “NASA, NOAA to Announce 2024 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A leap of faith for Heather Seagren eight years ago brought the Gulf Coast native to something new, yet also returned her to a familiar place at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Following graduation from Pearl River Community College, Seagren worked as an office manager atContinue reading “Mission Possible: Coordinating Travel for NASA Employees”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY From November 6-8, 2024, the NASA Science Activation Program’s Planetary Resources and Content Heroes (ReaCH) project held a Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement workshop at the Bradley Observatory at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia for the space sciences community, including planetary science, astrobiology, astronomy, and heliophysics professionals, as well asContinue reading “NASA Workshops Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement with Educators”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or “retroreflectors,” on the Moon to accurately reflect laser light beamed at them from Earth with minimal scattering or diffusion. Retroreflectors are mirrors that reflect the incoming light back in the same incoming direction. Calculating the time required for the beams to bounce backContinue reading “NASA Anticipates Lunar Findings From Next-Generation Retroreflector”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA photographer Joel Kowsky captured this image of the Monday, April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana. 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. AContinue reading “Best of 2024: Total Solar Eclipse in Indianapolis”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Have you looked up at the night sky this season and noticed a bright object sporting a reddish hue to the left of Orion? This is none other than the planet Mars! January will be an excellent opportunity to spot this planet and some of its details with a medium-sizedContinue reading “January’s Night Sky Notes: The Red Planet”