- 55 Years Ago: One Month Until the Moon Landing
With the dress rehearsal completed during Apollo 10 in May 1969, only a few weeks remained until Apollo 11, the actual Moon landing mission to meet President Kennedy’s goal set ...
- Marshall Research Scientist Enables Large-Scale Open Science
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Marshall Research Scientist Enables Large-Scale Open Science
Rahul Ramachandran is a senior research scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Most people use tools at work, whether it’s ...
- NASA’s Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with “Rose” of Galaxies
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble’s eye at an especially photogenic ...
- NASA Invites Media to ‘NASA in the Park’ June 22
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
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Media are invited to attend a celebration of space and the Rocket City during NASA in the Park on Saturday, June ...
- Augmented Reality Speeds Spacecraft Construction at NASA Goddard
Augmented reality tools have helped technicians improve accuracy and save time on fit checks for the Roman Space Telescope being assembled at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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- Why Scientists Are Intrigued by Air in NASA’s Mars Sample Tubes
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NASA’s Perseverance rover viewed these dust devils swirling across the surface of Mars on July 20, 2021. Scientists want to study ...
- NASA CubeSats Loaded for Launch
A Satellite for Optimal Control and Imaging (SOC-i) CubeSat awaits integration at Firefly’s Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on Thursday, June 6, 2024. SOC-i, along with ...
- Giant Batteries Deliver Renewable Energy When It’s Needed
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
In developing its flow battery, ESS drew from groundbreaking research and development conducted by the space agency more than 40 years ...
- A Bright New Abrasion
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A Bright New Abrasion
This image was ...
- NASA Engineer Honored as Girl Scouts ‘Woman of Distinction’
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Danielle Koch, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, was honored by the Girl Scouts of North East ...
- NASA’s Chandra Peers Into Densest and Weirdest Stars
Supernova remnant 3C 58.
X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICE-CSIC/A. Marino et al.; Optical: SDSS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major
The supernova remnant 3C 58 contains a spinning neutron star, known as PSR J0205+6449, at its center. ...
- Next Generation NASA Technologies Tested in Flight
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Next Generation NASA Technologies Tested in Flight
Erin Rezich, Ian Haskin, QuynhGiao Nguyen, Jason Hill (Zero-G staff), and George Butt experience Lunar gravity while running test operations ...
- PATA Announces New Executive Board
Bangkok, Thailand, June 9, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is delighted to announce the ratification of the new PATA Executive Board. Peter Semone has been ...
- AWC Launches Teeshot Bar the First Sports Simulator with F&B and Karaoke
Bangkok, Thailand, June 19, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / Asset World Corp Public Company Limited (AWC), Thailand’s leading integrated lifestyle real estate group, launches ‘Teeshot Bar’ at Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen’s ...
- The Marshall Star for June 18, 2024
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The Marshall Star for June 18, 2024
California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge
By Savannah Bullard
After two days of live competitions, ...
- High-Speed Market Studies
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Artist concept of a high-speed point-to-point vehicle.
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Owing to NASA’s Quesst mission and Commercial Supersonic Technology project, there is growing industry ...
- NASA Releases Hubble Image Taken in New Pointing Mode
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NASA Releases Hubble Image Taken in New Pointing Mode
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy NGC 1546.
NASA, ESA, STScI, David Thilker (JHU)
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken ...
- Artemis, Architecture, and Lunar Science: SMD and ESDMD Associate Administrators visits Tokyo
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Artemis, Architecture, and Lunar Science: SMD and ESDMD Associate Administrators visits Tokyo
June 18, 2024
At NASA we always say that exploration enables science, and science enables exploration. During a ...
- NASA Awards Logistic Services, Management Contract
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NASA has awarded the Goddard Logistics Services Contract to TRAX International Corporation of Las Vegas to provide logistics services and management for NASA missions.
The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes a base ...
- NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Build Next-Gen Spacecraft for NOAA
Conceptualization of the GeoXO constellation.
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NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build the spacecraft for NOAA’s ...
- NASA Sets Launch Coverage for NOAA Weather Satellite
Crews transport NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-U) from the Astrotech Space Operations facility to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy ...
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Etched into Collier Trophy, Aerospace History
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been immortalized at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington as the latest awardee of the Robert J. Collier Trophy. Bestowed annually by the ...
- Celebrating Juneteenth
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The crew aboard the International Space Station captured this image of Galveston, Texas, the birthplace of Juneteenth, as the station orbited 224 miles above on Nov. 23, 2011.
In the early 1800s, ...
- Happy Birthday, Redshift Wrangler!
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Happy Birthday, Redshift Wrangler!
Redshift Wranglers have roped nearly 8,000 galaxies! The project is now on its 3rd data set, and more data is on the way.
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- Summary of the 2023 GEDI Science Team Meeting
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Summary of the 2023 GEDI Science Team Meeting
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The 2023 Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Science Team Meeting ...