- International SWOT Mission Can Improve Flood Prediction
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International SWOT Mission Can Improve Flood Prediction
Flooding on the Souris River inundated this community in North Dakota in 2011. The U.S.-French SWOT satellite is giving scientists ...
- 20 Years Ago: NASA Selects its 19th Group of Astronauts
On May 6, 2004, NASA announced the selection of its 19th group of astronauts. The group comprised 11 candidates – two pilots, six mission specialists, and three educator mission specialists ...
- NASA Challenge Gives Artemis Generation Coders a Chance to Shine
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement selected seven student teams to participate in a culminating event for the 2024 App Development Challenge ...
- New Proposals to Help NASA Advance Knowledge of Our Changing Climate
On May 7, 2024, NASA announced the selection of four proposals for concept studies of missions to benefit humanity through the study of Earth science. Most of what we know ...
- Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
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This April 1, 2018, enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The image is a combination of three separate images taken as ...
- White Sands Propulsion Team Tests 3D-Printed Orion Engine Component
When the Orion spacecraft carries the first Artemis crews to the Moon and back, it will rely on the European Service Module contributed by ESA (European Space Agency) to make ...
- Ken Carpenter: Ensuring Top-Tier Science from Moon to Stars
Today, Ken Carpenter is a scientist for NASA’s Hubble and Roman space telescopes, but in 1967 he was just a teenager at his local library out to fact-check a “Star ...
- Breaking the Scaling Limits: New Ultralow-noise Superconducting Camera for Exoplanet Searches
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Breaking the Scaling Limits: New Ultralow-noise Superconducting Camera for Exoplanet Searches
When imaging faint objects such as distant stars or exoplanets, capturing every last bit of ...
- How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the Sun’s mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space ...
- Astronaut Suni Williams Prepares for Crew Flight Test
NASA/Frank Micheaux
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronaut Suni Williams gives a thumbs up during a mission dress rehearsal on Friday, April 26, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in ...
- New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink
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New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink
Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced ...
- A Different Perspective – Remembering James Dean, Founder of the NASA Art Program
Artist James Dean prepares sketches of the space shuttle Columbia as it sits on Pad 39 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 9, 1981, waiting for its first historic ...
- Tech Today: NASA’s Ion Thruster Knowhow Keeps Satellites Flying
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
This Hall-effect thruster, shown being tested at Glenn Research Center, turns electricity and inert gas into force that could propel a ...
- Sols 4175-4177: Don’t Blink We’re Taking a Picture
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Sols 4175-4177: Don’t Blink We’re Taking a Picture
This image shows our previous workspace block and rover wheel tracks from Sol 4171 taken by the Left Navigation Camera onboard ...
- NASA Invites Media to Attend Louisiana Space Day 2024
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, is one of the world’s largest manufacturing plants, with 43 acres under one ...
- Hubble Views a Galaxy with a Voracious Black Hole
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Hubble Views a Galaxy with a Voracious Black Hole
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4951, located roughly 50 million light-years away from Earth. ...
- UN Tourism Joins Launch of Ireland’s first Sustainable Tourism Observatory
UN Tourism has celebrated the official launch of the Atlantic Sustainable Tourism Observatory Ireland (ASTOI) in Sligo, Ireland.
The Observatory, which has been admitted into the International Network of Sustainable Tourism ...
- UN Tourism: Putting Communities at the Centre of Tourism Development
UN Tourism has reaffirmed its commitment to innovation to enhance the evolution of the sector with a seminar on community-based tourism in Cuba. The Seminar “Enhancing Tourism Development through Innovation ...
- Women take Centre Stage Building Inclusive Tourism in Asia & the Pacific
Women-led tourism initiatives are driving sustainability efforts forward across Asia and the Pacific region but more financial investment, training and equal opportunities are still needed to reach gender equality.
The 2nd ...
- Emirates Partners with Aviation Impact Accelerator
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 4, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / Emirates has become an industrial partner of the Aviation Impact Accelerator (AIA), based at the University of Cambridge. The new ...
- Indian Coastal Beverage GOAN FENI Launched in Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand, May 3, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / Inspirador Indian Spirits launched today, in a small catch-up session featuring Heritage Feni “TINTO” with the brand owner, Mr. Solomon Diniz. The ...
- PATA Offsets Event Emissions for 2023
Bangkok, Thailand, May 3, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to announce that all of PATA’s in-person events from 2023 have been offset in ...
- Amadeus & UN Tourism Joint Report Americas Reveals Tourism on the Rise
Madrid, Spain, May 3, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / Data shows strong growth, especially in the Caribbean and Central America. Demand for travel to destinations across the Americas is on the ...
- Two Top Italian Chefs Take You on Exclusive Gastronomic Journey
Bangkok, Thailand, May 2, 2024 / TOP25RESTAURANTS / We are delighted to announce our upcoming collaboration dinner together with Acqua Panna & S. Pellegrino, featuring One MICHELIN Star Chef Antimo ...
- Mountain Tourism Sector Reconvened to Explore New Directions
Andorra la Vella, Andorra, May 2, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / The 12th World Congress on Snow, Mountain and Wellness Tourism was held in later March in Andorra, attended by over ...