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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Retirement Information for NASA Employees The NSSC provides general administrative, advisory, and transactional support for federal benefits programs to all NASA employees, calculates retirement estimates, and processes retirement packages. If you are a NASA employee, please visit the NASA Employee Portal for more information. In consideration of retiring employees on administrative leave, resourcesContinue reading “Retirement”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In March as Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission-1 landed on the Moon, researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, employed a novel camera system to capture first-of-its-kind data imagery of the interaction between the lander’s engine plumes and the lunar surface. That kind of data is critical, becauseContinue reading “What a Blast! NASA Langley Begins Plume-Surface Interaction Tests”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air taxis and drones can successfully operate within busy areas.   The demonstration, held at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley earlier this year, focused on a system called theContinue reading “NASA Demonstrates Safer Skies for Future Urban Air Travel “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated, X-ray-emitting gas. The mass of this hot gas is typically about five times higher than the total mass of all the galaxies in galaxyContinue reading “Painting Galaxy Clusters by Numbers (and Physics)”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A flash of lightning, and then—something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Sprites occur at some 50 miles (80 kilometers)Continue reading “Sprites Over Château de Beynac”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Called AVIRIS-5, it’s the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the Moon, and other worlds. Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and otherContinue reading “New NASA Sensor Goes Hunting for Critical Minerals”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Michelle Hoehn vividly remembers the day a seed was planted for her future at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. As a seventh grader, the Bogalusa, Louisiana, native joined her dad for Father/Daughter Day at NASA Stennis. Hoehn knew she wanted to be part of something bigger,Continue reading “How Louisiana Native Turned Childhood Wonder into NASA Stennis Career”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Jonny Kim returned to Earth on Tuesday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, wrapping up an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station to benefit life on Earth and future space exploration. They made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 12:03 a.m. EST (10:03 a.m. localContinue reading “NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim, Crewmates Return from Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant glows in X-ray, visible, and infrared light in this Jan. 8, 2024, image that combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble, Webb, and Spitzer space telescopes. A study by the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft has made the first-ever X-ray detectionsContinue reading “XRISM Finds Chlorine, Potassium in Cas A”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By the time the Artemis II Orion spacecraft launches to the Moon next year, its many components will already have traveled thousands of miles and moved across multiple facilities before coming together at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Branelle Rodriguez, Artemis II vehicle manager for the Orion Program, has overseen manyContinue reading “Artemis II Vehicle Manager Branelle Rodriguez Gets Orion Ready for “Go””