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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media accreditation is open at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-30) mission to the International Space Station for the agency. Liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket is targeted no earlier than mid-March from Launch Complex 39AContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 30th Resupply Launch to Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is using a simple but effective technology called Laser Retroreflective Arrays (LRAs) to determine the locations of lunar landers more accurately. They will be attached to most of the landers from United States companies as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Service (CLPS) initiative. LRAs are inexpensive, small, andContinue reading “How NASA Uses Simple Technology to Track Lunar Missions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronauts must prepare their bodies for the physical stresses of living and working in microgravity before they launch on a spaceflight. Fortunately, they get customized training programs and plenty of help from astronaut fitness trainer Corey Twine, who shares decades of strength and conditioning expertise with astronauts every dayContinue reading “Career Journey: Building Strength as an Astronaut Fitness Trainer”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and international researchers are studying the air quality in Asia as part of a global effort to better understand the air we breathe. In collaboration with Korea’s National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER), the Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality, or ASIA-AQ mission, will collect detailed atmosphericContinue reading “NASA Collaborates in an International Air Quality Study”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Wayne Smith In his youth, NASA technologist Les Johnson was riveted by the 1974 novel “The Mote in God’s Eye,” by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, in which an alien spacecraft propelled by solar sails visits humanity. Today, Johnson and a NASA team are preparing to test a similarContinue reading “NASA Solar Sail Technology Passes Crucial Deployment Test”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronaut Charles F. Bolden, STS-60 commander, sits at the commander’s station on the forward flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery in this image from February 1994. While aboard Discovery, the crew attempted to deploy the Wake Shield Facility-1, a deployable/retrievable experiment platform designed to leave a vacuum wake inContinue reading “Astronaut Charles Bolden Preps for Deorbit”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A key NASA design milestone was recently completed by Collins Aerospace as the company works to develop a next-generation spacesuit for use on the International Space Station. The milestone – a pressure garment system fit and functionality test in a microgravity-like environment – marked an important step toward developing aContinue reading “Collins Aerospace Tests NASA Space Station Suit in Weightlessness”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 87 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 10:25 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 14 (8:25Continue reading “NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 87 Launch, Space Station Docking”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will host a media day at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15, in the first-floor lobby of Building 4221 on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, to introduce new Center Director Joseph Pelfrey. Media are invited to meet and speak with Pelfrey about his role. NASAContinue reading “NASA Marshall Invites Media to Meet New Center Director”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday Dwight Deneal will serve as the new assistant administrator for the Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, effective immediately. In this role, Deneal provides executive leadership, policy direction, and management for programs that help ensure all small businessesContinue reading “NASA Administrator Names New Head of Small Business Programs”