- 55 Years Ago: Manned Orbiting Laboratory Cancellation
The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), a joint classified project of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), sought to establish a crewed platform in low Earth ...
- Bangkok’s TOP25 Restaurants 2024 Revealed at Park Hyatt Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand, June 10, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / TOP25Restaurants.com, the world’s first organization to use artificial intelligence (AI) to curate and recognize the finest dining establishments across the globe, is ...
- Bright Rocks and “Bright Angel”
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Bright Rocks and “Bright Angel”
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- NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch
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This June 2021 aerial photograph shows the coastal launch range at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The Atlantic ...
- Food Safety Program for Space Has Taken Over on Earth
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Food for the Apollo astronauts was not always especially appealing, but thanks to the protocol NASA and Pillsbury came up with, ...
- “Earthrise” by NASA Astronaut Bill Anders
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NASA astronaut Bill Anders took this iconic image of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon on Dec. 24, 1968. Anders, lunar module pilot on the Apollo 8 mission, and fellow ...
- Management and Program Analyst Mallory Carbon
“I feel that my larger purpose at NASA, which I’ve felt since I came on as an intern, is to leave NASA a better place than I found it. I ...
- NASA Watches Mars Light Up During Epic Solar Storm
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The specks in this scene were caused by charged particles from a solar storm hitting a camera aboard NASA’s Curiosity Mars ...
- Eclipse Shadow Bands Interview with Country Living
Dennis Gallagher (ST13) was interviewed by Senior Editor Terri Robertson with Country Living on 3/14/24. Questions included what is thought to cause them, how can you increase you chance of ...
- Gateway’s HALO Making Moves
Technicians at a Thales Alenia Space industrial plant in Turin, Italy. guide Gateway’s HALO module to its stress testing location.
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The Gateway space station’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics ...
- NASA Administrator Remembers Apollo Astronaut William Anders
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The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the passing of Apollo astronaut Maj. Gen. (ret.) William “Bill” Anders, who passed away June 7, ...
- Sols 4209-4211: Just Out of Reach
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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this ...
- NASA Ames Astrogram – May/June 2024
Swarming for Success: Starling Completes Primary Mission
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After ten months in orbit, the Starling spacecraft swarm successfully demonstrated its primary mission’s key objectives, representing significant achievements in the capability of swarm ...
- NASA Invites Media to Rollout Event for Artemis II Moon Rocket Stage
The core stage is the backbone of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will help power NASA’s Artemis II mission to send a crew of four astronauts around ...
- NASA Selects Contractor for Lifecycle Services Support
NASA has selected Amentum Services Inc. of Chantilly, Virginia, to provide program, science, engineering, operations, and project management support at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
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- What Are You Looking At?
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A Florida redbelly turtle looks warily at the camera in this photo from Feb. 29, 2000. This image was captured on the grounds of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ...
- NASA Exploring Alternative Mars Sample Return Methods
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NASA is moving forward with 10 studies to examine more affordable and faster methods of bringing samples from Mars’ surface back to Earth as part of the ...
- NASA Crew Flight Test Astronauts to Call White House, NASA Leaders
NASA astronauts Suni Williams (pictured left) and Butch Wilmore (pictured right) launched at 10:52 a.m. EDT June 5 as the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on the United ...
- Article On Using the Lightning Imaging Sensor to Search for Gamma-ray Flashes from Thunderstorms Accepted for Publication
Timothy Lang (ST11) is a coauthor on an article titled, “Employing Optical Lightning Data to identify lightning flashes associated to Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes,” which was recently accepted for publication in ...
- Participation in the Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research Forum
Patrick Duran (SPoRT/ST11) participated in the annual Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research Forum (TCORF) at the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center in Lakeland, FL 3/5-6/24. TCORF brings together hurricane researchers, forecasters, ...
- New Paper Redefining Characteristics of Lightning-Initiated Wildfire Ignition
Christopher Schultz (ST11) led a team consisting of Phillip Bitzer (UAH), Michael Antia (Jacobs), Jonathan Case (Ensco), and Christopher Hain (MSFC) to examine 26-years of lightning-initiated wildfires (LIW) to understand ...
- ‘Super’ Star Cluster Shines in New Look From NASA’s Chandra
Star Cluster Westerlund 1.
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Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth. New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, in ...
- NASA to Discuss Upcoming Spacewalks for Station Repairs, Upgrades
Astronaut waves during a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station (Credits: NASA)
NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct three spacewalks targeted for June. NASA will discuss the ...
- PACE Celebrates National Ocean Month With Colorful Views of the Planet
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Credit: NASA/Ryan Fitzgibbons
What do you give to an ocean that has everything? This year, for National Ocean Month, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, ...
- National Weather Service Office of Science and Technology Integration Visit to Learn about SPoRT
The National Weather Service in Huntsville hosted a visit by the NWS Office of Science and Technology Integration. OSTI is the main office within the NWS that manages and plans ...