- Tech Today: Synthetic DNA Diagnoses COVID, Cancer
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Princeton University undergraduate Kate Sheldon, doing summer work at Firebird Diagnostics, holds a prototype of the Agnostic Life Finder, or ALF, ...
- NASA Wallops to Launch Three Sounding Rockets During Solar Eclipse
Three Black Brant IX sounding rockets for the Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission are scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility launch range in Virginia. The launch ...
- Advances in Understanding COPV Structural Life
The Structures Technical Discipline Team (TDT) was involved in numerous investigations this past year, but composites, fracture mechanics, and pressure vessels dominate the list. All three of these specialties are ...
- Harnessing the 2024 Eclipse for Ionospheric Discovery with HamSCI
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Harnessing the 2024 Eclipse for Ionospheric Discovery with HamSCI
As the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, draws closer, a vibrant community of enthusiastic amateur radio operators, known ...
- How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars
Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages of stars. Once a star like our Sun has settled ...
- Eclipses Near and Far
On April 8, 2024, North America will witness its last total solar eclipse for more than twenty years. Other parts of the world will experience the rare celestial event in ...
- The Marshall Star for April 3, 2024
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The Marshall Star for April 3, 2024
Huntsville, Marshall Preparing to Celebrate Total Solar Eclipse
By Celine Smith
On April 8 between 1 and 3 p.m., the Moon ...
- NASA Selects Companies to Advance Moon Mobility for Artemis Missions
An artist’s concept design of NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle.
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NASA has selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab to advance capabilities for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) that Artemis astronauts ...
- Scientists Pursue the Total Solar Eclipse with NASA Jet Planes
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Scientists Pursue the Total Solar Eclipse with NASA Jet Planes
The April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will produce stunning views across North America. While anyone along the eclipse ...
- Carving a Path
NASA/Woody Hoburg
These aren’t highways in this picture taken on Aug. 15, 2023; they’re paths carved by glaciers as they move through the Karakoram mountain range north of the Himalayas.
Crew aboard ...
- NASA Receives 13 Nominations for the 28th Annual Webby Awards
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work “to the widest ...
- Rock Sampled by NASA’s Perseverance Embodies Why Rover Came to Mars
The 21st rock core captured by NASA’s Perseverance has a composition that would make it good at trapping and preserving signs of microbial life, if any was once present. The ...
- How NASA Spotted El Niño Changing the Saltiness of Coastal Waters
Rivers can flush rainwater over hundreds of miles to the sea, changing the makeup of coastal waters in ways that scientists are still discovering. In this satellite image from December ...
- NASA Invites Media to Annual FIRST Robotics Competition in Rocket City
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
Students from the Power Struck Girls Team 5965 – an all-girls FIRST Robotics team from the Academy of Our Lady high ...
- 65 Years Ago: NASA Selects America’s First Astronauts
On Nov. 5, 1958, NASA, newly established to lead America’s civilian space program, formally established the Space Task Group (STG) at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to implement ...
- NASA Aeronautics Monthly STEM Newsletter
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2024
NASA Aeronautics Monthly STEM Newsletter: Issue 35
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- A Home for Astronauts around the Moon
Northrop Grumman/Thales Alenia Space
The Gateway space station’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) module, one of two of Gateway’s habitation elements where astronauts will live, conduct science, and prepare for lunar ...
- Veronica T. Pinnick Put NASA’s PACE Mission through Its Paces
To achieve the impossible, Veronica T. Pinnick, who put NASA’s PACE mission through its prelaunch paces, says you need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Name: Dr. Veronica T. Pinnick
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- NASA Partnerships Bring 2024 Total Solar Eclipse to Everyone
Solar eclipse
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Eclipses are an important contribution to NASA’s research into the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, and the part of Earth’s atmosphere where space weather happens. They’re also an inspirational ...
- That Starry Night Sky? It’s Full of Eclipses
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That Starry Night Sky? It’s Full of Eclipses
An artist’s concept shows the TRAPPIST-1 planets as they might be seen from Earth using an extremely powerful – and fictional ...
- Scientists Use NASA Data to Predict Solar Corona Before Eclipse
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Scientists Use NASA Data to Predict Solar Corona Before Eclipse
Our Sun, like many stars, is adorned with a crown. It’s called a corona (Latin for “crown” or “wreath”) ...
- NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Crewmates Return
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara uses a portable glovebag to replace components on a biological printer, the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), that is testing the printing ...
- NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2024
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NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2024
The class of 2024 NHFP Fellows are shown in this photo montage (top to bottom, left to right): The Hubble Fellows (seen ...
- NASA Engineer Chris Lupo Receives 2024 Federal Engineer Award
Chris Lupo monitors activities on console for the Commercial Crew Program Mission Support Team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston during docking of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 to the International ...
- Solar Eclipse Resources
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Solar Eclipse Resources
Visitors at Saturday “SUN” Day look through solar eclipse glasses.
Credits: Kent Blackwell, Back Bay Amateur Astronomers
From the Astronomical Society of the ...