- NASA Continues Artemis Moon Rocket Engine Tests with 1st Hot Fire of 2024
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
NASA completed a full-duration, 500-second hot fire of an RS-25 certification engine Jan. 17, continuing a critical test series to support ...
- Laser Instrument on NASA’s LRO Successfully ‘Pings’ Indian Moon Lander
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Laser Instrument on NASA’s LRO Successfully ‘Pings’ Indian Moon Lander
For the first time at the Moon, a laser beam was transmitted and reflected between an orbiting NASA spacecraft ...
- Andorra Opens Debate on Sustainability & Wellness in Mountain Destinations
Encamp, Andorra, January 18, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / Sustainability and wellness will be two of the key elements of the debates at the 12th edition of the World Congress of ...
- The Marshall Star for January 17, 2024
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The Marshall Star for January 17, 2024
‘Be King’: Team Redstone Invites All to Honor Civil Rights Icon’s Legacy
By Jessica Barnett
Several accomplished speakers took to the ...
- NASA Sets Briefings for Crew-8, International Space Station Missions
The four crew members representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station pose for an official portrait at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
NASA will host a ...
- An Aurora in Another Light
NASA/Lauren Dauphin and Wanmei Liang; NOAA
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, over western Canada at ...
- Robot Team Builds High-Performance Digital Structure for NASA
Research engineer Christine Gregg inspects a Mobile Metamaterial Internal Co-Integrator (MMIC-I) builder robot. These simple robots are part of a hardware and software system NASA researchers are developing to autonomously ...
- 20 Years After Landing: How NASA’s Twin Rovers Changed Mars Science
NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers landed on the Red Planet on Jan. 3 and 24, 2004, respectively. This image shows a view Opportunity captured of its own shadow on ...
- GUSTO Balloon Mission Maintains Course Circling Antarctic Skies
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
The Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) awaits its flight on a scientific balloon with a picturesque view of Antarctica’s Mount ...
- NASA Study: More Greenland Ice Lost Than Previously Estimated
Jakobshavn Isbrae, a glacier on Greenland’s western coast, is shown in imagery taken on Sept. 5, 1985, by the Landsat 5 satellite. Jakobshavn receded from 1985 to 2022, losing about ...
- Michael Thorpe Studies Sediment from Source to Sink
Name: Michael Thorpe
Title: Sedimentary and Planetary Geologist
Organization: Planetary Environments Laboratory, Science Directorate (Code 699)
Sedimentary and planetary geologist Dr. Michael Thorpe studies sediments’ journey from mountains to downstream lakes, both on ...
- NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps
Sometimes, stars can be stripped away from globular clusters as they orbit a massive galaxy. Researchers have identified several instances in our own Milky Way galaxy – and they’ve also ...
- Webb Shows Many Early Galaxies Looked Like Pool Noodles, Surfboards
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Webb Shows Many Early Galaxies Looked Like Pool Noodles, Surfboards
Researchers are analyzing distant galaxies when the universe was only 600 million to 6 billion years old. ...
- TAT Launches Thais Always Care Communication Campaign
Bangkok, Thailand, KJanuary 17, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / Sending out invitation to the world that Thailand and its people are always ready to welcome tourists with CARE, reflecting the kingdom’s ...
- Expedition 69 Crew, Three NASA Astronauts to Share Mission Highlights
Expedition 69 Flight Engineers play chess with NASA mission controllers
Credit NASA
Jan. 16, 2024
RELEASE: 24-001
Four astronauts, including the current record holder for the longest single U.S. stay in space aboard the ...
- NASA, DOD Seek Universities to Develop CubeSats for Launch
A set of NanoRacks CubeSats is photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member after the deployment by the Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (SSOD). The CubeSats program contains a variety of ...
- NASA X-59 Unveiled During Rollout Ceremony
NASA and Lockheed Martin publicly unveil the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft at a ceremony in Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The X-59 is the centerpiece of ...
- Science Launches to Space Station on NASA’s 20th Northrop Grumman Mission
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Science Launches to Space Station on NASA’s 20th Northrop Grumman Mission
iss067e156135 (July 28, 2022) — Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter is positioned away from the International ...
- NASA Administrator Names New Head of Space Technology
Kurt Vogel portrait, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Dr. Kurt “Spuds” Vogel will serve as the new associate administrator ...
- NASA’s IXPE Helps Researchers Maximize ‘Microquasar’ Findings
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
This composite image of the Manatee Nebula captures the jet emanating from SS 433, a black hole devouring material embedded in ...
- Career Journey: Cooking Up a Job as a Space Food Scientist
As the Space Food Systems manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Xulei Wu works with a team to create tasty, shelf-stable meals for astronauts aboard the International Space ...
- UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili Meets Minister Jordi Hereu
Madrid, Spain, January 16, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / The recovery of the global tourism sector in 2023 and the good prospects for 2024 were the focus of the meeting held ...
- Winter Stargazing Tips: Stay Warm and Cozy!
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Winter Stargazing Tips: Stay Warm and Cozy!
Some parts of the country feel as if the winter will never end. Massive snows, polar vortexes, artic winds…it’s almost enough to ...
- Vietjet Named Amongst World’s Safest Airlines
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, January 15, 2023 / TRAVELINDEX / Vietjet has been once again listed in the world’s safest airlines for 2024, the global airline safety and product ...
- Deputy Program Manager Dr. Camille Alleyne
“I started the Brightest Stars Foundation 16 years ago because I realized there were no little ones in the pipeline who looked like me coming up. Because I had accomplished so ...