- NASA Expanding Lunar Exploration with Upgraded SLS Mega Rocket Design
A final round of certification testing for production of new RS-25 engines to power the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, beginning with Artemis V, is underway at NASA’s Stennis Space ...
- Tech Today: Suspended Solar Panels See the Light
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is an example of a concentrated solar power plant, which works by having hundreds of ...
- NASA Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara Read “First Woman”
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In this image from Jan. 12, 2024, NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli (left) and Loral O’Hara pose with a copy of “First Woman”, NASA’s first graphic novel, inside the International ...
- NASA’s Europa Clipper Solar Arrays Successfully Deploy at Kennedy Space Center
Technicians working inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida unfolded and fully extended the first of two five-panel solar arrays built for NASA’s ...
- Zero-Boil-Off Tank Experiments to Enable Long-Duration Space Exploration
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Zero-Boil-Off Tank Experiments to Enable Long-Duration Space Exploration
Figure 1. The Gateway space station—humanity’s first space station around the Moon—will be capable of being refueled in space. ...
- NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side
The plane of our Milky Way galaxy, as seen by ESA’s Gaia space mission. It contains more than a billion stars, along with darker, dusty regions Gaia couldn’t see through. ...
- Understanding Risk, Artificial Intelligence, and Improving Software Quality
The software discipline has broad involvement across each of the NASA Mission Directorates. Some recent discipline focus and development areas are highlighted below, along with a look at the Software ...
- Splashdown! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Finishes Mission, Returns to Earth
Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, left, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa are seen inside the SpaceX ...
- The Next Accident: How Do We Prevent It?
By Andrew Chaikin, Independent Space Historian and member of the NESC Human Factors Technical Discipline Team
I recently watched NESC Deputy Director Mike Kirsch stand before a roomful of engineers at ...
- Operational Modal Analysis of the Artemis I Dynamic Rollout Test
Operational modal analysis (OMA) techniques have been used to identify the modal characteristics of the Artemis I launch vehicle during the Dynamic Rollout Test (DRT) and Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) ...
- Looking Back, Moving Forward
Interview with NESC Director, Tim Wilson
NESC Director, Tim Wilson
Upon reaching its 20th year of operations at NASA in 2023, the NESC is busier than it has ever been. With a ...
- NESC Honor Awards
NESC Honor Awards are given each year to NASA employees, industry representatives, and other stakeholders for their efforts and achievements in engineering, leadership, teamwork, and communication. These awards formally recognize ...
- Most Impactful NESC Assessments
After reflecting on the more than 1,200 assessments completed by the NESC over the last 20 years, Director Tim Wilson selected these assessments as his top three. They were selected ...
- Four Hands Cantonese Chef’s Collaboration from Hong Kong to Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand, March 12, 2024 / TOP25RESTAURANTS / Banyan Tree Bangkok is pleased to announce an exciting collaboration with Hotel ICON, a unique teaching and research hotel in Hong Kong, ...
- PATA Gold Awards 2024 Open for Submissions
Bangkok, Thailand, March 12, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has officially opened submissions for the prestigious PATA Gold Awards 2024. Travel industry professionals are invited ...
- Let’s Go to the South of Thailand Together with TAT’s Amazing Thailand Beyond Experience
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) joins hands with Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited (AIS) to cooperate with business owners in the southern region of Thailand, for the purpose ...
- NASA Awards Environmental, Safety, Health, Mission Assurance Contract
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NASA has selected Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston to provide support services in four broad technical areas including environmental, institutional operational safety, occupational health, aeronautics and space systems, and ...
- Total Solar Eclipse 2024: The Moon’s Moment in the Sun
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Total Solar Eclipse 2024: The Moon’s Moment in the Sun
Artist’s representation of a total solar eclipse, with a new moon in the foreground and the Sun’s corona visible ...
- Data, Sustainability and Collaboration Focus as UN Tourism Returns to ITB Berlin
Berlin, Germany, March 10, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / UN Tourism returned to ITB Berlin, bringing its new name and look to the leading travel trade fair and uniting the sector ...
- UN Adopts New Global Standard to Measure Sustainability of Tourism
New York, NY, United States, March 9, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / A groundbreaking statistical framework, developed under the leadership of UN Tourism, has been adopted by all 193 UN member ...
- Thailand’s Soft Powers Successfully Presented Through World-class Tennis Tournament, Thailand Open 2024
Hua Hin, Thailand, March 10, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / Closing with a grand finale for a world-class tennis tournament, WTA 250 tennis tournament, Thailand Open 2024, presented by E@, the ...
- Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 with NASA’s Webb
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Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 with NASA’s Webb
Star-forming region NGC 604.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
The formation of stars and the chaotic ...
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Return to Earth to Air Live on NASA Platforms
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 poses for a photo before their mission to the International Space Station. From left to right: Mission Specialist Konstantin Borisov, Pilot Andreas Mogensen, Commander Jasmin Moghbeli, and ...
- Luxembourg Leaders Focus on Lunar Exploration at Visit to NASA Ames
Using the Lunar Lab and Regolith Testbeds at NASA’s Ames Research Center, a team created this simulated lunar environment to study lighting conditions experienced at the unexplored poles of the ...
- NASA to Host Boeing Crew Flight Test Preview, News Conferences
Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams in T-38 pre-flight activities at Ellington Field. Photo Date: August 16, 2022. Location: Ellington Field, Hangar 276/Flight Line.
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