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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Continuity mission will extend a decades-long record of following shifting water masses using gravity measurements. NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR (German Aerospace Center) have agreed to jointly build, launch, and operate a pair of spacecraft that will yield insights into how Earth’sContinue reading “US, Germany Partnering on Mission to Track Earth’s Water Movement”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (left), and Walter M. Schirra Jr., pose for the camera during suiting up exercises on Oct. 22, 1965. Stafford was selected among the second group of astronauts in September 1962 by NASA to participate in Projects Gemini and Apollo. In December 1965, he piloted Gemini VI,Continue reading “Gemini VI Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Walter M. Schirra Jr.”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media are invited to join NASA and Department of Health and Human Services leadership at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, to highlight how the agencies are making progress toward President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative. During the event,Continue reading “NASA Administrator, Health Secretary to Host Cancer Moonshot Event”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY After NASA’s historic Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a JPL-led study has shown that the shape of asteroid Dimorphos has changed and its orbit has shrunk. When NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) deliberately smashed into a 560-foot-wide (170-meter-wide) asteroid on Sept. 26, 2022, it made its mark in more waysContinue reading “NASA Study: Asteroid’s Orbit, Shape Changed After DART Impact”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On March 15, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory entered into safe mode, temporarily suspending science operations due to degrading performance from one of its three gyroscopes (gyros), which are used to point the observatory for making observations. The rest of the spacecraft remains in good health. Swift is designed toContinue reading “NASA’s Swift Temporarily Suspends Science Operations”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday’s passing of Thomas Stafford, a lifelong space exploration advocate, former NASA astronaut, and U.S. Air Force general:  “Today, General Tom Stafford went to the eternal heavens, which he so courageously explored as a Gemini and Apollo astronaut asContinue reading “NASA Administrator Pays Tribute to Space Pioneer Thomas Stafford “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia will support commercial launch provider Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launch no earlier than March 21 at 2:40 a.m. EDT. The four-hour launch window runs through 6:30 a.m. The mission, named NROL-123, is a dedicated launch for NRO (National Reconnaissance Office). The 59-foot-tall Electron rocketContinue reading “NASA Wallops Supports Rocket Lab Launch for NRO From Virginia”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Hand-crafted robots, constructed over the past two months by 44 high school teams, duked it out at the FIRST Robotics Los Angeles regional competition. Student-made contraptions of a metal and a little magic battled each other in front of cheering and dancing high schoolers at the annual Los Angeles regionalContinue reading “Student-Built Robots Clash at Competition Supported by NASA-JPL”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement has selected seven student teams to participate in a culminating event for the 2024 App Development Challenge (ADC), one of the agency’s Artemis Student Challenges, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The coding challenge invites middle and high school student teams to contribute toContinue reading “NASA Challenge Invites Artemis Generation Coders to Johnson Space Center”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Three crew members will blast off on Thursday, March 21, to support Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station. NASA will provide full coverage of launch and crew arrival at the microgravity laboratory. NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, areContinue reading “NASA Sets Coverage for Crew Launch; Trio to Join Expedition 70”