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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Two new automation tools developed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are geared toward improving operations for flight controllers working with the International Space Station from the Huntsville Operations Support Center. The tools, called AutoDump and Permanently Missing Intervals Checker, will free the flight control team toContinue reading “NASA-Developed Tools at Marshall Support Operations to Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The NASA Science Activation program’s GLOBE Mission EARTH (GME) project is forging powerful connections between career technical education (CTE) programs and real-world science, inspiring students across the United States to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). GME is a collaborative effort between NASA scientists, educators, and schoolsContinue reading “GLOBE Mission Earth Supports Career Technical Education”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is calling on volunteers of all ages to help students and citizen scientists document seasonal change through leaf color and land cover. The data collection event will support students across North America, Latin America, Central America, and Europe, whoContinue reading “Kudos Test Article”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert launch aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 11, 1970. The mission seemed to be going smoothly until 55 hours and 55 minutes in when an oxygen tank ruptured. The new mission plan involvedContinue reading “Apollo 13 Launch: 55 Years Ago”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On March 18, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for thermal vacuum testing at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, which simulates the harsh conditions of space. The IMAP mission is a modern-day celestial cartographer that will map the solarContinue reading “NASA’s IMAP Arrives at NASA Marshall For Testing in XRCF  “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world opening up before us. In fact, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is very real. We are seeing vast clouds of ionized atoms and molecules, thrownContinue reading “Hubble Captures a Star’s Swan Song”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an analysis from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The probability of collisionContinue reading “How NASA Science Data Defends Earth from Asteroids”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When students actively participate in scientific investigations that connect to their everyday lives, something powerful happens: they begin to see themselves as scientists. This sense of relevance and ownership can spark a lifelong interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), paving the way for continued education and even futureContinue reading “GLOBE, NASA, and the Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School in Queens, New York”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Flying high above the clouds and moon-gazing may sound like a scene from a timeless romance, but NASA did just that in the name of Earth science research. In March 2025 pilots took the agency’s ER-2 science aircraft on a series of night flights over NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research CenterContinue reading “NASA Measures Moonlight to Improve Earth Observations”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Have we ever been to Uranus? The answer is simple, yes, but only once. The Voyager II spacecraft flew by the planet Uranus back in 1986, during a golden era when the Voyager spacecraft explored all four giant planets of our solar system. It revealed an extreme world, a planetContinue reading “Have We Been to Uranus? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 56”