official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Oct. 28, 2023, NASA’s C-130 Hercules and crew safely touched down at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, after an around-the-globe journey to deliver the agency’s Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO). The United States research station, operated by the National Science Foundation, is host to NASA’s Antarctic long-duration balloon campaign in which the GUSTOContinue reading “NASA C-130 Makes First-Ever Flight to Antarctica for GUSTO Balloon Mission”
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NASA’s Modern History Makers: Sarah Tipler
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Growing up, Sarah Tipler always felt out of place. She had trouble with time management, structuring her day, and focusing her attention, but she didn’t know why. “For all of my undergraduate education, I really struggled to keep up despite understanding the material,” Tipler said. “It took a ton ofContinue reading “NASA’s Modern History Makers: Sarah Tipler”
NASA Supports Tests of Dust Sensor to Aid Lunar Landings
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY University of Central Florida researchers tested an instrument designed to measure the size and speed of surface particles kicked up by the exhaust from a rocket-powered lander on the Moon or Mars. The four tethered flights on Astrobotic’s Xodiac rocket-powered lander took place in Mojave, California, from Sept. 12 throughContinue reading “NASA Supports Tests of Dust Sensor to Aid Lunar Landings”
NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids, extracting oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, and revolutionizing flight have been named TIME’s Inventions of 2023. TIME announced the honorees on Oct. 24. “For more than 65 years, NASA hasContinue reading “NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023”
NASA, JAXA Benefit from Collaborative Fellowship Experience
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A yearlong journey of cultural and professional development overseas has a NASA Deep Space Logistics employee excited about current and future collaboration with one of America’s key international partners in the agency’s Artemis program. Katherine Cook, who develops cargo delivery services for NASA’s Gateway, recently returned to the agency’s KennedyContinue reading “NASA, JAXA Benefit from Collaborative Fellowship Experience”
NASA-ISRO Radar Mission to Provide Dynamic View of Forests, Wetlands
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NISAR will help researchers explore how changes in Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change. Once it launches in early 2024, the NISAR radar satellite mission will offer detailed insights into two types of ecosystems – forests and wetlands – vital toContinue reading “NASA-ISRO Radar Mission to Provide Dynamic View of Forests, Wetlands”
Join NASA to Celebrate Worm Design, Influence with Original Designer
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media are invited to hear a discussion on the design and cultural significance of the worm logotype with NASA and its creator Richard Danne at 11:30 a.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 6, at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. The logotype, a simple, red unique type style of the word NASA,Continue reading “Join NASA to Celebrate Worm Design, Influence with Original Designer”
NASA en español Senior Science Writer and Editor Noelia González
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY “Obviously, Spanish has a lot to do with accessibility and broadening our audiences. We are using Spanish as a tool to break those barriers to connect with audiences. Spanish is the language I grew up with in Uruguay, and the language that I feel more comfortable with. It is amazingContinue reading “NASA en español Senior Science Writer and Editor Noelia González”
NASA Rocket to See Sizzling Edge of Star-Forming Supernova
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A new sounding rocket mission is headed to space to understand how explosive stellar deaths lay the groundwork for new star systems. The Integral Field Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Experiment, or INFUSE, sounding rocket mission, will launch from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Oct. 29, 2023, at 9:35Continue reading “NASA Rocket to See Sizzling Edge of Star-Forming Supernova”
Progress Continues Toward NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to Station
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and Boeing are working to complete the agency’s verification and validation activities ahead of Starliner’s first flight with astronauts to the International Space Station. While Boeing is targeting March to have the spacecraft ready for flight, teams decided during a launch manifest evaluation that a launch in April willContinue reading “Progress Continues Toward NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to Station”