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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Clouds of white vapor pile up at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi during a full-duration, 500-second hot fire of an RS-25 certification engine Jan. 17, 2024. This test series is critical for future flights of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in support of the ArtemisContinue reading “First Hot Fire Test of the Year for Artemis”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Savannah Bullard NASA has selected Alabama A&M University’s Agribition Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to host the final level of the agency’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, using indoor and outdoor space to ground test the finalists’ solutions. The challenge opened in 2020 to find novel solutions for excavating icyContinue reading “NASA Taps Alabama A&M University to Host Break the Ice Lunar Challenge”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Jennifer Kunz, associate director technical of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, released the following statement after speaking Thursday at the SpaceCom / 50th Space Congress in Orlando, Florida. “NASA’s Moon to Mars strategy rests on three pillars: pursuing science to better understand the universe and our origins; inspiring theContinue reading “Statement from NASA’s Jennifer Kunz at SpaceCom, 50th Space Congress”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch to the Moon’s South Polar region, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative. This mission is part of CLPS’ ongoing effort to bring down the cost for science investigations and technology demonstrations going to the Moon andContinue reading “NASA to Study Effects of Radio Noise on Lunar Science”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Long-term space exploration exposes humans to radiation that can damage deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA, which carries the genetic information for our development and functioning. Conditions in space also affect the way the body repairs such damage, potentially compounding the risk. Research on the International Space Station studies DNA damage andContinue reading “Station Science 101: Studying DNA in Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Explore the February 2024 edition featuring: Gator Speaks There are two reasons why the last Thursday in January and the month of February are important at NASA moving ahead as the Artemis Generation. Having been around for decades as the NASA Stennis mascot, it is easy to forget important thingsContinue reading “Lagniappe for February 2024”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA innovates for the benefit of all, what the agency develops for exploration has the potential to evolve into other technologies with broader use here on Earth. Many of those examples are highlighted in NASA’s annual Spinoff book including dozens of NASA-enabled medical innovations, as well other advancements inContinue reading “NASA Spinoffs Feature NASA Stennis Developed Technologies”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA inspires as it explores secrets of the universe for the benefit of all – just ask Tony Goretski, the senior employee in the Office of Procurement at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Goretski felt the inspiration long ago on a school trip to the GulfContinue reading “NASA Employee Supports Mission While Inspiring Artemis Generation”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY One thing has remained constant throughout Maury Vander’s career with NASA – the satisfaction of being part of a team working to innovate and benefit the agency and the aerospace industry at large. As chief of the Test Operations Division at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, Vander provides guidance and helpContinue reading “Team Mindset Fuels NASA Stennis Test Operations Leader”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY UGC 3912 is classified as a spiral galaxy … but you wouldn’t know it from this detailed NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. UGC 3912’s distorted shape is typically indicative of a gravitational encounter with another galaxy. When galaxies interact – either brush up against each other’s gravitational fields or evenContinue reading “Hubble Captures a Suspected Galaxy Encounter”