Tag: NASA
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NASA to Highlight Climate Research on Cargo Launch, Sets TV Coverage
 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:07 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, carrying the Dragon spacecraft on its journey to the International Space Station for SpaceX’s 24th commercial resupply services mission.Credits: NASA/Kevin Davis and Chris Colem NASA and SpaceX are…
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NASA Announces Winners of 2022 Student Launch Competition
For the second year in a row, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte won the launch division, while Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, won first place in the design division of NASA’s 2022 Student Launch rocketry competition. NASA announced the winners Thursday during a live virtual ceremony. Each year, NASA challenges middle school, high school,…
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NASA Funds Projects that Aim to Inspire Artemis Generation
NASA has selected a variety of projects that take innovative approaches to broadening student participation in science, technology, engineering, and math to receive awards
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NASA Selects New Instruments for Priority Artemis Science on Moon
Adding to the growing list of commercial deliveries slated to explore more of the Moon than ever before under Artemis, NASA has selected two new science instrument suites, including one that will study the mysterious Gruithuisen Domes for the first time. These payload suites mark the second selection through the agency’s Payloads and Research Investigations on…
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NASA Administrator to Launch Artemis Learning Lunchbox Initiative
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is helping kick off a new initiative to deliver food and hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math kits, called Learning Lunchboxes, in Orlando at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, June 3. The lunchboxes are aimed at inspiring and educating youth and families about NASA’s upcoming Artemis missions, which includes landing the first woman…
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NASA Partners with Industry for New Spacewalking, Moonwalking Services
NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to advance spacewalking capabilities in low-Earth orbit and at the Moon, by buying services that provide astronauts with next generation spacesuit and spacewalk systems to work outside the International Space Station, explore the lunar surface on Artemis missions, and prepare for human missions to Mars. The awards leverage…
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Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Forecasts a Devastating Run of Hurricanes; Where and When Not Clear
Marine scientists and climate experts have sounded an alarm ahead of this year’s hurricane season: the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current, an area of warm water that begins its journey in the Caribbean, is looking a lot like the 2005 model. As such, they’re forecasting another devastating parade of intense storms. Joseph Kuehl, associate professor…
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NASA to Pick Next Generation Spacesuits for Moonwalking, Spacewalking
NASA will announce at 2 p.m. EDT (1 p.m. CDT) Wednesday, June 1, the company, or companies, selected to move forward in developing the next generation of spacesuits for Artemis missions at the Moon and the International Space Station during an event at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The announcement will air live…
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NASA, Boeing Complete Starliner Uncrewed Flight Test to Space Station
NASA and Boeing safely landed the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft Wednesday in the desert of the western United States, completing the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station to help prove the system is ready to fly astronauts. About four hours after departing the space station, Starliner touched down onto its airbags…
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NASA Administrator, Arizona Students to Hear from Station Astronauts
Students from Arizona will have an opportunity this week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Sen. Mark Kelly will participate in the call. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 1:35 p.m. EDT Friday, May 27, on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins and…