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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Operating internationally over several countries this summer, NASA’S C-20A aircraft completed more than 150 hours of science flights across two months in support of Earth science research and overcame several challenges throughout its missions. Based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research in Edwards, California, the C-20A research aircraft has been modifiedContinue reading “NASA Aircraft Gathers 150 Hours of Data to Better Understand Earth”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to launch a sounding rocket carrying student-developed experiments for the RockSat-X mission on Tuesday, Aug. 13. The Terrier-Improved Malemute rocket is expected to reach an altitude of about 100 miles (162 kilometers) before descending by parachute into the Atlantic Ocean to beContinue reading “This Rocks! NASA is Sending Student Science to Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Interior of the 20-foot diameter vacuum tank at the NASA Lewis Research Center’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory. The Electric Propulsion Laboratory, which began operation in 1961, contained two large vacuum tanks capable of simulating a space environment. The tanks were designed especially for testing ion and plasma thrusters and spacecraft. TheContinue reading “Interior of Vacuum Tank at the Electric Propulsion Laboratory”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA invites teams from colleges, universities, as well as technical and vocational schools around the country to test their engineering skills in the 2025 Lunabotics Challenge. Applications open at 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 6. The competition is aimed at inspiring Artemis Generation students to explore science, technology, engineering,Continue reading “Calling All Innovators: Apply for NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Challenge”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY “I didn’t always grow up knowing that I was going to be working for NASA. It was just the way my life unfolded, and I couldn’t be more grateful and lucky to have this opportunity to be here. I think hiking is what really got me into my passion forContinue reading “Sedimentary and Planetary Geologist Dr. Michael Thorpe”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY “The public perception of NASA has a lot to do with our technological successes and the discoveries that we’ve made, but none of that is possible without the people.  “In the six or so years that I’ve worked at NASA, I’ve learned a lot of incredible stories — not justContinue reading “Communications Strategist Thalia Patrinos”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s upcoming flagship astrophysics missions, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Habitable Worlds Observatory, will study planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Over 5,000 exoplanets have been confirmed to date — and given that scientists estimate at least one exoplanet exists for every star in theContinue reading “How NASA Citizen Science Fuels Future Exoplanet Research”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 After the usual morning routine of doing some engineering housekeeping, Curiosity continues to take some remote science observations. We take a ChemCam LIBS observation  and a Mastcam image of the “Peeler Lake” target, a dark, nodular target that appears to be more erosion-resistantContinue reading “Sols 4266-4267: Happy ‘Landiversary,’ Curiosity”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Twelve years ago, NASA landed its six-wheeled science lab using a daring new technology that lowers the rover using a robotic jetpack. NASA’s Curiosity rover mission is celebrating a dozen years on the Red Planet, where the six-wheeled scientist continues to make big discoveries as it inches up the foothillsContinue reading “Here’s How Curiosity’s Sky Crane Changed the Way NASA Explores Mars”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA Additive Manufacturing Project Shapes Future for Agency, Industry Rocket Makers The widespread commercial adoption of additive manufacturing technologies, commonly known as 3D printing, is no surprise to design engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center whose research created stronger, lighter weight materials and new manufacturing processes to make rocketContinue reading “The Marshall Star for August 7, 2024”