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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Scientists from around the world are gathering this week in California to take stock of the state of science from Mars and discuss goals for the next steps in exploration of the Red Planet. In the spirit of Mars 10, formally known as the 10th International Conference on Mars, hereContinue reading “10 Things for Mars 10”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When designing a new spacecraft or exploration vehicle, there is intense focus on its technical performance. Do its systems perform as expected? What kind of power does it need? Will it safely reach its destination? Equally important, however, is whether that vehicle also works for the humans inside. Can astronautsContinue reading “Designing Space Exploration With the Human in Mind”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This spring, NASA published a document overviewing almost 200 technology areas requiring further development to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs – and asked the aerospace community to rate their importance. The goal was to better integrate the community’s most pervasive technical challenges, or shortfalls, to help guideContinue reading “NASA Releases First Integrated Ranking of Civil Space Challenges”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Leadership from NASA and Boeing will participate in a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 25, to provide the latest status of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission aboard the International Space Station. Audio of the media teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website: https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv ParticipantsContinue reading “NASA, Boeing to Discuss Crew Flight Test Mission, Ground Testing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As part of NASA’s commitment to foster responsible exploration of the universe for the benefit of humanity, the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS) is funding space sustainability research proposals from five university-based teams to analyze critical economic, social, and policy issues related to Earth’s orbit and cislunar space.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronaut Eileen Collins, STS-93 commander, looks through a checklist on the space shuttle Columbia’s middeck in this July 1999 image. Collins was the first female shuttle commander. Collins graduated in 1979 from Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, where she was a T-38 instructor pilot until 1982.Continue reading “Astronaut Eileen Collins, NASA’s First Female Shuttle Commander”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Welcome to NASA Aeronautics’ live update page with news about NASA events and other festivities taking place throughout the week at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, which we simply call Oshkosh. NASA Pilots Present Tuesday, July 23 at 1:30 p.m. EDT NASA pilots (and an astronaut!) spoke this morning to kidsContinue reading “LIVE: NASA is with you from Oshkosh”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Rick Smith “The art of aerospace engineering is a matter of seeing around corners,” said NASA thermal analyst Jodi Turk. In the case of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, marking its 25th anniversary in space this year, some of those corners proved to be as far as 80,000 miles awayContinue reading “25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s X-66 aircraft, the centerpiece of its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, is taking the term “sustainable” to heart by reusing an old MD-90 cockpit as a base for its new X-66 simulator. When airplanes are retired, they often wind up in “boneyards” — storage fields where they spend years beingContinue reading “Boneyard Airplane Sees New Life as a NASA X-66 Simulator”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A rocket-propelled target is scheduled for launch July 27-28, 2024 from NASA’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in support of a U.S. Navy Fleet Training exercise. No real-time launch status updates will be available. The launch will not be livestreamed nor will launch status updates beContinue reading “NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch for U.S. Navy Fleet Training”