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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Three crew members will blast off on Thursday, March 21, to support Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station. NASA will provide full coverage of launch and crew arrival at the microgravity laboratory. NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, areContinue reading “NASA Sets Coverage for Crew Launch; Trio to Join Expedition 70”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA selected 10 small research satellites across eight states to fly to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s efforts to expand education and science opportunities, support technology advancement, and provide for workforce development. These small satellites, or CubeSats, use a standard size and form measured in units.Continue reading “NASA Selects New Round of Candidates for CubeSat Missions to Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Vision To be a world-leading science organization, which contributes substantially to NASA’s science mission enterprise. Mission To provide scientific leadership in research and flight missions, enabled by the excellence of a diverse workforce.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, partners, and area employers joined forces on a mission to inspire more than 4,500 eighth-grade students seeking answers to all questions “career” at the 2024 Junior Achievement (JA) Inspire event. The annual career-exploration event was held March 12-13 at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center inContinue reading “NASA Wallops Offers Career Inspiration to Delmarva Students”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA selected its Wildfire Climate Tech Challenge winners, awarding three teams $100,000 for their diverse, innovative approaches to address the escalating effects of wildfires and climate change. The challenge combined the expertise of Minority Serving Institutions – including Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, andContinue reading “NASA Selects Winners of the Wildfire Climate Tech Challenge”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY New research and technology demonstrations for NASA are set to launch aboard the agency’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for 4:55 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 21, lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Continue reading “NASA to Send Research to Station Aboard 30th SpaceX Resupply Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Some extraordinary asteroids have “activity”–comet-like tails or envelopes of gas and dust.  NASA’s Active Asteroids project announced the discovery of activity on fifteen asteroids, challenging conventional wisdom about the solar system. To find these fifteen rare objects, more than 8000 volunteers combed through 430,000 images from the Dark Energy CameraContinue reading “NASA Volunteers Find Fifteen Rare “Active Asteroids””

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The National Space Council hosted the Women in Space Roundtable on Monday, March 12, and Deputy Center Director Laurie Grindle from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was there to welcome Second Gentleman Mr. Douglass Emhoff and moderate a panel discussion. NASA has partnered with the National SpaceContinue reading “Second Gentleman Douglass Emhoff Participates in Women in Space Roundtable”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA selected 45 student essays as semifinalists of its 2024 Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On March 14, NASA delivered its gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer instrument to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) for integration onto JAXA’s MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission spacecraft and final system-level testing.   NASA’s Mars-moon Exploration with Gamma Ray and Neutrons (MEGANE) instrument, developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)Continue reading “NASA Delivers Science Instrument to JAXA’s Martian Moons Mission”