With less than a year to launch, NASA's Lucy mission's third and final scientific instrument has been integrated onto the spacecraft. The spacecraft, which will be the first to explore the Trojan asteroids---a population of small bodies that share an orbit with Jupiter---is in the final stages of the assembly process.
It may take years for NASA's climate communication effort to recover from the damage inflicted by the Donald Trump Administration.
HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) - The City of Hampton hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the Mary Jackson Neighborhood Center on Tuesday, named in honor of the trailblazing Hampton resident. Jackson broke down barriers for both women and minorities by becoming NASA's first Black female engineer in 1958.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) - West Virginia University's Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources hosted a Zoom presentation Tuesday on the life and legacy of NASA engineer Katherine Johnson. The event was moderated by Statler College professor Cerasela Zoica Dinu, and panelists included Meshea Poore, WVU's vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, and Kerri Knotts, Statler College alum and former NASA engineer.
Date: 02/09/2021 Writer:Tiffany Acosta, 575-646-3929, tfrank@nmsu.edu New Mexico State University was selected to receive a NASA Early Stage Innovations grant to conduct game-changing space technology research. NMSU's proposal was one of 14 university-led research proposals chosen to receive up to $650,000 from NASA's Space Technology Research Grants program for up to three years.
North Alabama wouldn't be what it is without NASA, and NASA wouldn't be what it is without the work of black Americans. Not just the ones in the suits, like Decatur's own Mae Jemison who made history as the first black woman in space, but many who go to work everyday, right here in Huntsville.
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace was selected to build the spacecraft for NASA's Global Lyman-alpha Imager of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) heliophysics science Mission of Opportunity. GLIDE will study variability in Earth's exosphere, the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere where it touches space, by tracking far ultraviolet light emitted from hydrogen.
After a nearly seven-month journey to Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is slated to land at the Red Planet's Jezero Crater Feb. 18, 2021, a rugged expanse chosen for its scientific research and sample collection possibilities.
WASHINGTON - Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), an influential senator who has long been an advocate for some NASA programs and critic of others, announced Feb. 8 he will not run for reelection next year. Shelby said in a statement that he would not seek a seventh term in the Senate in 2022.
Millie Hughes-Fulford, a trailblazing astronaut and scientist who became the first female payload specialist to fly in space for NASA, died following a yearslong battle with cancer, her family said. She was 75. Hughes-Fulford was selected by NASA for its astronaut program in 1983 and five years later, in June 1991, spent nine days in [...]
(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech) Mars missions from China and the United Arab Emirates arrive in orbit around the Red Planet this week, followed by the landing of NASA's Mars rover Perseverance next week. The UAE's Hope orbiter is set to arrive at the Red Planet on Tuesday, with China's Tianwen-1 mission following less than a day later.
Aerion Supersonic, which is building a 110-acre campus in Melbourne, is partnering with NASA to research and develop passenger aircraft capable of flying three to five times the speed of sound. Aerion and NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, are launching a five-year joint study, the company announced Tuesday morning.
Press Release From: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Posted: Monday, February 8, 2021 After nearly 2 1/2 years in orbit, a shoebox-size weather satellite phoned home one last time before plunging into Earth's atmosphere and burning up on Dec. 24, 2020.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently shared an aerial view of Tampa, Florida, the host city of Super Bowl LV. The picture shared on NASA's official Instagram page was captured by astronaut Soichi Noguchi. Noguchi arrived aboard the station on the Crew Dragon spacecraft, along with fellow astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker of NASA.
Among those behind one of NASA's greatest feats of science - collecting samples from a moving asteroid - is a Venezuelan-American immigrant who came to the United States to realize a lifelong dream. This past October, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft took a sample from the asteroid Bennu, the smallest ...
KAPOLEI, HAWAII - Alaska Air National Guard personnel completed four weeks of training during Exercise H20 in Hawaii, Feb. 6, honing their long-range search and rescue capability for the NASA human spaceflight program they are responsible for supporting. The Air Guard's 176th Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, is the only wing in the U.S.
"They are now also a part of the CLPS program which is NASA's effort to commercialize and grow an industry that will enable the united states to commercialize cislunar space the area on and around the moon," Ketchum said. "That's our next big goal, and Firefly is well positioned to get a big piece of that.
A stunning picture apparently showing the sun's dazzling surface is viral on social media with the claim that it was published by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). A Facebook user shared the picture with the caption, "The most clear picture of the sun surface published by NASA."
After six months and more than 300 million miles, NASA's newest and most innovative rover will land on Mars in February. CHARLOTTE, N.C. - February will see another historic day for space exploration as NASA's newest and most innovative rover will land on Mars on Feb. 18.
They observe fire fronts and burn scars during and shortly after fire moves across a landscape For the past few decades, scientists have been using satellite- and airplane-based radar instruments to detect damage caused by wildfires and human-caused blazes.