official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Climate change is rapidly reshaping a region of the world that’s home to millions of people. In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches (15 centimeters) of sea level rise, according to an analysis by NASA’s sea levelContinue reading “NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise for Pacific Islands”
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NASA’s Record-Breaking Laser Demo Completes Mission
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s TBIRD (TeraByte InfraRed Delivery) demonstration and its host spacecraft — the PTD-3 (Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-3) — have completed their technology demonstration. The TBIRD payload spent the past two years breaking world records for the fastest satellite downlink from space using laser communications. NASA’s PTD series leverages a common commercialContinue reading “NASA’s Record-Breaking Laser Demo Completes Mission”
Crew Returns from Simulated Trip to Mars—Take a Peek Inside their Journey
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY An all-volunteer crew on a simulated trip to Mars “returned” to Earth on Sept. 23, 2024, after being isolated in a tiny habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Their work is contributing to the science that will propel humanity to the Moon and eventually Mars. The HERA missions provideContinue reading “Crew Returns from Simulated Trip to Mars—Take a Peek Inside their Journey”
Robotic Moving ‘Crew’ Preps for Work on Moon
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA moves forward with efforts to establish a long-term presence on the Moon as part of the Artemis campaign, safely moving cargo from landers to the lunar surface is a crucial capability. Whether the cargo, also known as payloads, are small scientific experiments or large technology to build infrastructure,Continue reading “Robotic Moving ‘Crew’ Preps for Work on Moon “
In Odd Galaxy, NASA’s Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas outshining its stars. Found approximately one billion years after the big bang, galaxy GS-NDG-9422 (9422) may be a missing-link phaseContinue reading “In Odd Galaxy, NASA’s Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars”
September 2024 Transformer of the Month: Lori Arnett
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Lori Arnett approaches her work at NASA with a simple motto: think big, start small, act fast. As the Associate Director for Digital Transformation for the Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities (AETC) within the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD), she helps manage the capability portfolio for wind tunnels across theContinue reading “September 2024 Transformer of the Month: Lori Arnett”
Astronaut José Hernández Boards Discovery
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the camera as he waits for his turn to enter the space shuttle Discovery as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle mission and the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the orbitalContinue reading “Astronaut José Hernández Boards Discovery”
NASA Awards Contract Extension for Solar Science Instrument
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has awarded a contract extension to Stanford University, California, to continue the mission and services for the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument on the agency’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
NASA Relaunches Art Program with Space-Themed Murals
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA launched the next phase of its art program with two new space-themed murals in New York’s Hudson Square neighborhood in Manhattan. The vision of the reimagined NASA Art Program is to inspire and engage the Artemis Generation with community murals and other art projects for the benefit of humanity. Continue reading “NASA Relaunches Art Program with Space-Themed Murals”
Julie Rivera Pérez Bridges Business, STEM to ‘Make the Magic Happen’
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Senior Resource Analyst Julie Rivera Pérez ensures finances and assets are in place to enable missions’ engineering and science “magic” can happen. As a former intern, she also reaches out to current students to ensure a diverse and inclusive future workforce. Name: Julie Rivera PérezFormal Job Classification: Senior Resources AnalystOrganization:Continue reading “Julie Rivera Pérez Bridges Business, STEM to ‘Make the Magic Happen’”