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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In early 1969, the goal set by President John F. Kennedy to land a man on the Moon seemed within reach. A new president, Richard M. Nixon, now sat in the White House and needed to chart America’s course in space in the post-Apollo era. President Nixon directed his scienceContinue reading “55 Years Ago: President Nixon Establishes Space Task Group to Chart Post-Apollo Plans”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A team of engineers prepares to integrate TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain – into the belly of NASA’s first robotic Moon rover, VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover).  TRIDENT, designed and developed by engineers at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, is the fourth and finalContinue reading “Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Research scientist Sujung Go analyzes atmospheric data to help humanity and the environment. Name: Sujung Go Title: Research scientist Organization: Climate and Radiation Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science Directorate (Code 613) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? I work in theContinue reading “Sujung Go: Helping Humanity and the Environment”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media accreditation is open at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-30) mission to the International Space Station for the agency. Liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket is targeted no earlier than mid-March from Launch Complex 39AContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 30th Resupply Launch to Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is using a simple but effective technology called Laser Retroreflective Arrays (LRAs) to determine the locations of lunar landers more accurately. They will be attached to most of the landers from United States companies as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Service (CLPS) initiative. LRAs are inexpensive, small, andContinue reading “How NASA Uses Simple Technology to Track Lunar Missions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronauts must prepare their bodies for the physical stresses of living and working in microgravity before they launch on a spaceflight. Fortunately, they get customized training programs and plenty of help from astronaut fitness trainer Corey Twine, who shares decades of strength and conditioning expertise with astronauts every dayContinue reading “Career Journey: Building Strength as an Astronaut Fitness Trainer”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and international researchers are studying the air quality in Asia as part of a global effort to better understand the air we breathe. In collaboration with Korea’s National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER), the Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality, or ASIA-AQ mission, will collect detailed atmosphericContinue reading “NASA Collaborates in an International Air Quality Study”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Wayne Smith In his youth, NASA technologist Les Johnson was riveted by the 1974 novel “The Mote in God’s Eye,” by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, in which an alien spacecraft propelled by solar sails visits humanity. Today, Johnson and a NASA team are preparing to test a similarContinue reading “NASA Solar Sail Technology Passes Crucial Deployment Test”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronaut Charles F. Bolden, STS-60 commander, sits at the commander’s station on the forward flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery in this image from February 1994. While aboard Discovery, the crew attempted to deploy the Wake Shield Facility-1, a deployable/retrievable experiment platform designed to leave a vacuum wake inContinue reading “Astronaut Charles Bolden Preps for Deorbit”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A key NASA design milestone was recently completed by Collins Aerospace as the company works to develop a next-generation spacesuit for use on the International Space Station. The milestone – a pressure garment system fit and functionality test in a microgravity-like environment – marked an important step toward developing aContinue reading “Collins Aerospace Tests NASA Space Station Suit in Weightlessness”