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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has awarded $3.7 million to 11 teams to support new collaborations between the agency and United States institutions not historically part of the agency’s research enterprise. These are the first awards given through a new program from the agency’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) to improve diversity, equity, inclusion, andContinue reading “NASA Awards Inaugural Grants to Support Emerging Research Institutions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The crewmen of the third and final manned Skylab mission relax on the USS New Orleans, prime recovery ship for their mission, about an hour after their Command Module splashed down at 10:17 a.m. (CDT), Feb. 8, 1974. The splashdown, which occurred 176 statute miles from San Diego, ended 84Continue reading “Skylab 4 Recovery Ends Program”

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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Capable of receiving both radio frequency and optical signals, the DSN’s hybrid antenna has tracked and decoded the downlink laser from DSOC, aboard NASA’s Psyche mission. An experimental antenna has received both radio frequency and near-infrared laser signals from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft as it travels through deep space. This showsContinue reading “NASA’s New Experimental Antenna Tracks Deep Space Laser”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Contrary to what you might think, galaxy collisions do not destroy stars. In fact, the rough-and-tumble dynamics trigger new generations of stars, and presumably accompanying planets. Now NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has homed in on 12 interacting galaxies that have long, tadpole-like tidal tails of gas, dust, and a plethoraContinue reading “NASA’s Hubble Traces ‘String of Pearls’ Star Clusters in Galaxy Collisions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This artist’s illustration depicts the findings of a new study about the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy called Sagittarius A* (abbreviated as Sgr A*). As reported in our latest press release, this result found that Sgr A* is spinning so quickly that it is warping spacetime — that is, time andContinue reading “Telescopes Show the Milky Way’s Black Hole is Ready for a Kick”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s satellite mission to study ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate for the benefit of humanity launched successfully into orbit at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday. Known as PACE, the Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem satellite, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space LaunchContinue reading “NASA Launches New Climate Mission to Study Ocean, Atmosphere”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Nose-up and bathed in soft blue lights, Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane and its Shooting Star cargo module cast dramatic shadows onto the walls of NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, as members of the media got their first glimpse of the towering 55-foot-tall stack on Feb. 1.Continue reading “First Look: Spaceplane Stacked and Shaken at NASA Test Facility”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, SpaceX is targeting no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 14, for a Falcon 9 launch of Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander to the Moon’s surface. Liftoff will be from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space CenterContinue reading “NASA Sets Coverage for SpaceX, Intuitive Machines First Moon Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected 8(a) vendor Seventh Sense Consulting LLC of Woodbridge, Virginia, to provide acquisition support services for non-inherently governmental functions across the agency. The contractor will provide services agencywide, including document development support, procurement administrative services, acquisition policy support, procurement operations support, procurement source selection support, cost/pricing support, andContinue reading “NASA Selects Agencywide Acquisition Support Services Contractor”