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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This article is from the 2025 Technical Update. The human factors TDT looks for and creates opportunities to influence design to leverage human strengths and to protect people and missions. The human factors team has experts with knowledge of human performance in all aspects of NASA missions as well asContinue reading “Expanding the Human Factors Toolbox:  An Approach to Balancing Crew and Mission Design Parameters “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The NESC has invested significant time and resources to better understand composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPV) performance and more importantly, how these complex, high-pressure storage systems can fail. These vessels, which store high pressure propulsion and life-support system fluids on launch vehicles and spacecraft, are ubiquitous at NASA, and failures have the potential toContinue reading “COPV Damage Tolerance Life Demonstration Guidelines “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a detailed view of a relatively fresh crater in this image released on June 3, 2015. The crater has a sharp rim and well-preserved ejecta. The steep inner slopes are carved by gullies and include possible recurring slope lineae on the equator-facing slopes. ThisContinue reading “Celebrating NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s 20th Anniversary: Crater Near Sirenum Fossae”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The NESC’s Thermal Control & Protection Technical Discipline Team (TDT) is a resource providing subject matter expertise in active and passive thermal control as well as ascent and entry thermal protection across the spectrum of agency needs. TDT members led or supported a variety of key activities including the ongoingContinue reading “A Technical Resource for the Agency “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an environment like this before — and it may help solve two outstanding cosmic mysteries.Continue reading “NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media are invited to attend the 63rd annual Goddard Space Science Symposium, taking place Thursday, March 12, and Friday, March 13, at the National Housing Center in Washington. The event also will be streamed online. Organized by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) in conjunction with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to 63rd Annual Goddard Space Science Symposium”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A series of nighttime satellite images revealed how moonlight reaching Earth varied throughout a total lunar eclipse.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere, almost 14 years after launch. From 2012 to 2019, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, flew through the Van Allen belts, rings of charged particles trapped by Earth’s magnetic field, to understand how particles were gained and lost. The belts shield Earth from cosmic radiation, solarContinue reading “NASA’s Van Allen Probe A to Re-Enter Atmosphere “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The FDC project conducts complex integrated small-scale flight research to validate the benefits of new technologies. By modifying aircraft from FDC’s support fleet, the project enables aggressive, success-oriented flight campaign schedules. While many technologies are at mid-levels of technology readiness, the FDC project supports all phases of technology maturation.   FDC’s support aircraft fleet enables safety chase and in-flight experimentalContinue reading “About Flight Demonstrations and Capabilities (FDC) Project”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Monday, NASA announced Bradley Flick, director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, will retire Thursday, March 19, after a nearly 40-year career advancing aeronautics and flight research. Flick began his NASA journey in 1986 as a flight systems engineer and rose through the ranks to leadContinue reading “NASA Armstrong Director Brad Flick to Retire After 40 Years of Service”