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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Marshall Team Members Celebrate Holiday Season By Jessica Barnett For hundreds of team members at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, “eat, drink, and be merry” was the afternoon theme for Dec. 7. The center hosted a holiday celebration in Activities Building 4316, complete with food, door prizes, and plenty ofContinue reading “The Marshall Star for December 13, 2023”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA currently is working with several commercial companies as part of the agency’s VADR (Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare) launch services contract, providing new opportunities for science, and technology payloads. These include: Building on NASA’s previous procurement efforts to foster development of a growing U.S. commercial launch market, VADRContinue reading “NASA Provides Update on Venture-Class Launch Services”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The asteroid and comet-hunting infrared space telescope has gathered an impressive haul of observations, but it’s now at the mercy of the Sun, which is accelerating its demise. NASA’s NEOWISE has had a busy decade. Since its reactivated mission began on Dec. 13, 2013, the space telescope has discovered aContinue reading “NASA’s NEOWISE Celebrates 10 Years, Plans End of Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Growing up, Bruce Askins was passionate about space and oceanography. His desire to explore other worlds always made him want to be an astronaut. Though he did not become an astronaut, Askins has built a 42-year career at NASA, and, as the infrastructure management lead for NASA’s SLS (Space LaunchContinue reading “I am Artemis: Bruce Askins”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Crews at NASA’s Stennis Space Center cleared a milestone Dec. 11, installing a key component in preparation for future Green Run testing of NASA’s new Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) vehicle for use on the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. Four large diffusers, each weighing 14 tons, were lifted by craneContinue reading “NASA Stennis Continues Preparations for Future Artemis Testing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY It’s been another great year at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Join us as we review some of the highlights of the science, engineering, and innovation from 2023. Announcing a New Innovation Hub Planned for NASA Research Park at Ames Berkeley Space Center is a proposed newContinue reading “2023 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Aug. 8, 2023, Artemis II crew members (from left) Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch took a photo in front of their Orion crew module at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Announcing the crew and continuing work on the Space Launch System rocket and OrionContinue reading “2023 in Review: Artemis II Crew Visits Kennedy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A NASA technology experiment on the International Space Station completed its first laser link with an in-orbit laser relay system on Dec. 5, 2023. Together, they complete NASA’s first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system. NASA’s LCRD (Laser Communications Relay Demonstration) and the new space station demonstration, ILLUMA-T (Integrated LCRD LowContinue reading “NASA’s Space Station Laser Comm Terminal Achieves First Link”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Brown dwarfs are objects that straddle the dividing line between stars and planets. They form like stars, growing dense enough to collapse under their own gravity, but they never become dense and hot enough to begin fusing hydrogen and turn into a star. At the low end of the scale,Continue reading “NASA’s Webb Identifies Tiniest Free-Floating Brown Dwarf”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A NASA study expands the search for life beyond our solar system by indicating that 17 exoplanets (worlds outside our solar system) could have oceans of liquid water, an essential ingredient for life, beneath icy shells. Water from these oceans could occasionally erupt through the ice crust as geysers. TheContinue reading “NASA: Some Icy Exoplanets May Have Habitable Oceans and Geysers”