#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Back on Earth: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Mission Splashes Down Off Florida" NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission successfully splashed down at 3:29 a.m. EDT Friday, off Pensacola, Florida, concluding a nearly eight-month science mission and the agency’s eighth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station.   After launching March 3 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA astronauts Matthew […] [October 25, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/back-on-earth-nasas-spacex-crew-8-mission-splashes-down-off-florida/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sinister Solar System" Our universe is full of mysterious sights. Explore some of our most frightful finds from past Halloweens. [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/sinister-solar-system/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Awards NOAA’s Solar Wind Plasma Sensors Contract" NASA has selected the University of New Hampshire in Durham to build Solar Wind Plasma Sensors for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Next Program. This cost-plus-no-fee contract is valued at approximately $24.3 million and includes the development of two sensors that will study the […] [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-noaas-solar-wind-plasma-sensors-contract/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "An Orange Blue Moon" Clouds curling around the full “blue” moon gives the night sky an eerie feel in this image from Aug. 19, 2024. As seen here, a blue moon is not actually blue; the third full moon in a season with four full Moons is called a “blue” moon. Another moon will be visible in the sky […] [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/an-orange-blue-moon/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Chief AI Officer on the Federal Executive Forum: How Agencies Are Strategizing About AI" Listen to Chief AI Officer Dave Salvagnini represent NASA in a Federal Executive Forum webinar on “Artificial Intelligence Strategies in Government Progress and Best Practices 2024.” Featuring Chief AI Officers and technology experts at the IRS, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Red Hat, Deloitte, and Pure Storage, this discussion covers current […] [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/organizations/ocio/dt/ai/nasa-chief-ai-officer-on-the-federal-executive-forum-how-agencies-are-strategizing-about-ai/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Funds Open-Source Software Underpinning Scientific Innovation" NASA has awarded $15.6 million in grant funding to 15 projects supporting the maintenance of open-source tools, frameworks, and libraries used by the NASA science community, for the benefit of all. The agency’s Open-Source Tools, Frameworks, and Libraries awards provide support for the sustainable development of tools freely available to everyone and critical for the […] [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-funds-open-source-software-underpinning-scientific-innovation/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Statement from NASA’s Janet Petro on FY23 Economic Impact Report" America is returning to the Moon with our sights set on Mars, and NASA is leading the way. Along with our industry and international partners, we’re advancing scientific research, inspiring the next generation of explorers, and ensuring reliable and continuous access to space for our nation. NASA’s Economic Impact Report for fiscal year (FY) 2023 […] [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/statement-from-nasas-janet-petro-on-fy23-economic-impact-report/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "New Report Shows NASA’s $75.6 Billion Boost to US Economy" NASA’s work, including its Moon to Mars exploration approach, is advancing science and technology for the Artemis Generation, while also driving significant economic growth across the United States, the agency announced Thursday. In its third agencywide economic impact report, NASA highlighted how its Moon to Mars activities, climate change research and technology development, and other […] [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/new-report-shows-nasas-75-6-billion-boost-to-us-economy/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Human Adaptation to Spaceflight: The Role of Food and Nutrition" The latest book marks our third effort to review available literature regarding the role of nutrition in astronaut health. In 2009, we reviewed the existing knowledge and history of human nutrition for spaceflight, with a key goal of identifying additional data that would be required before NASA could confidently reduce the risk of an inadequate […] [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/esdmd/hhp/human-adaptation-to-spaceflight-the-role-of-food-and-nutrition/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Invites Media to 2024 von Braun Space Exploration Symposium" Media are invited to attend the 2024 von Braun Space Exploration Symposium Monday Oct. 28 to Wednesday, Oct. 30 at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Organized by the American Astronautical Society in collaboration with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, the annual symposium gathers leaders from across government, industry, policy, and academia to […] [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-invites-media-to-2024-von-braun-space-exploration-symposium/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Artemis II Astronauts Put Orion’s Side Hatch to the Test" Artemis II crew members recently traveled to Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, where they practiced opening and closing an Orion crew module side hatch model to help demonstrate its reliability and durability during their 10-day mission around the Moon. [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/artemis-ii-astronauts-put-orions-side-hatch-to-the-test/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Ames Stars of the Month: October 2024" The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) America Reyes Wang, Sepideh Khajehei, Julie Nottage, and Ryan Felton. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the talent, camaraderie, and vision needed to explore this world and beyond. Space Biosciences Star: America Reyes Wang America Reyes Wang serves as the […] [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-ames-stars-of-the-month-october-2024/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Melbourne City Lights" Astronaut Don Pettit captured this image of Melbourne, Australia from the International Space Station on Oct. 9, 2024, as it orbited 271 miles above the city. Astronauts aboard the space station take photos using handheld digital cameras, usually through windows in the station’s cupola, for Crew Earth Observations. Crew members have produced hundreds of thousands […] [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/melbourne-city-lights/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Submit Your 2025 Event Proposal to NASA" NASA is making event plans for the 2025 calendar year, and we want to pencil you in! We are looking for the Midwest’s biggest and best community events with the broadest audiences to share NASA’s content and raise awareness of the agency’s most exciting aeronautics and space missions. NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is […] [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/submit-your-2025-event-proposal-to-nasa/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Begins New Deployable Solar Array Tech Demo on Pathfinder Spacecraft" NASA recently evaluated initial flight data and imagery from Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-4 (PTD-4), confirming proper checkout of the spacecraft’s systems including its on-board electronics as well as the payload’s support systems such as the small onboard camera. Shown above is a test image of Earth taken by the payload camera, shortly after PTD-4 reached orbit. This […] [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-begins-new-deployable-solar-array-tech-demo-on-pathfinder-spacecraft/
Читать полностью…#NewImage from #Nasa: "Globular Star Cluster NGC 6752" Some 13,000 light-years away toward the southern constellation Pavo, the globular star cluster NGC 6752 roams the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Over 10 billion years old, NGC 6752 follows clusters Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae, and Messier 22 as the fourth brightest globular in planet Earth's night sky. It holds over 100 thousand stars in a sphere about 100 light-years in diameter. Telescopic explorations of NGC 6752 have found that a remarkable fraction of the stars near the cluster's core, are multiple star systems. They also reveal the presence of blue straggle stars, stars which appear to be too young and massive to exist in a cluster whose stars are all expected to be at least twice as old as the Sun. The blue stragglers are thought to be formed by star mergers and collisions in the dense stellar environment at the cluster's core. This sharp color composite also features the cluster's ancient red giant stars in yellowish hues. (Note: The bright, spiky blue star about 8 o'clock from the cluster center is a foreground star along the line-of-sight to NGC 6752) [October 25, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2410/NGC6752_DiFusco1024.jpg
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sols 4341-4342: A Bumpy Road" Earth planning date: Monday, Oct. 21, 2024 After Curiosity’s busy weekend, the team is ready for another day of planning. We are able to take advantage of the Earth-Mars time offset to full plan on both sols of our plan today. For this plan, I served as Mobility Rover Planner, and planned Curiosity’s drive. The […] [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4341-4342-a-bumpy-road/
Читать полностью…#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "An Orange Blue Moon" A super blue moon rises above NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Aug. 18, 2024. Although not actually appearing blue, as the third full moon in a season with four full moons, this is called a “blue” moon. [October 24, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ksc-20240819-ph-jbs01-0022orig.jpg
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "PSI Database is Live with New Features to Improve User Experience" Since its launch in 2014, the Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI) system has served as NASA’s online repository for physical science data. Now, the PSI system is live with new updates to further align with NASA’s open data policy. With its first significant update in over five years, the data repository has been completely redesigned, featuring […] [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/psi-database-is-live-with-new-features-to-improve-user-experience/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Educator Night at the Museum of the North: Activating Science in Fairbanks Classrooms" The NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT) set out to activate science in Fairbanks classrooms in early October at the University of Alaska’s Museum of the North annual Educators’ Night. This free Fall semester event introduces educators and school staff to a variety of resources and connections, connecting attendees with resources and university departments […] [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/learning-resources/science-activation/educator-night-at-the-museum-of-the-north-activating-science-in-fairbanks-classrooms/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Releases Economic Impact Report for Fiscal Year 2023" In fiscal year 2023, NASA investments supported 66,208 jobs in the state of California, generated $18.5 billion in economic output and $1 billion in tax revenue to the state’s economy. Overall, NASA generated an estimated $9.5 billion in federal, state, and local taxes throughout the United States. NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California […] [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-releases-economic-impact-report-for-fiscal-year-2023/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Science on Health, Safety to Launch on 31st SpaceX Resupply Mission" New science experiments for NASA are set to launch aboard the agency’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. The six investigations aim to contribute to cutting-edge discoveries by NASA scientists and research teams. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will liftoff aboard the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at […] [October 24, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/biological-physical-sciences/nasa-science-on-health-safety-to-launch-on-31st-spacex-resupply-mission/
Читать полностью…#NewImage from #Nasa: "NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula" A mere seven hundred light years from Earth toward the constellation Aquarius, a star is dying. The once sun-like star's last few thousand years have produced the Helix Nebula. Also known as NGC 7293, the cosmic Helix is a well studied and nearby example of a Planetary Nebula, typical of this final phase of stellar evolution. Combining narrow band data from emission lines of hydrogen atoms in red and oxygen atoms in blue-green hues, this deep image shows tantalizing details of the Helix, including its bright inner region about 3 light-years across. The white dot at the Helix's center is this Planetary Nebula's hot, dying central star. A simple looking nebula at first glance, the Helix is now understood to have a surprisingly complex geometry. [October 24, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2410/NGC7293_preview1024.png
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "October Transformer of the Month: Nipa Phojanamongkolkij" Dr. Nipa Phojanamongkolkij does not always do things the traditional way. As a systems engineer (SE) at Langley Research Center working closely with the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Nipa pushes boundaries and draws connections where few others would think to look. When she envisioned a way to use ChatGPT to help SE teams working on […] [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/october-transformer-of-the-month-nipa-phojanamongkolkij/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "The Marshall Star for October 23, 2024" Editor’s Note: Starting Nov. 4, the Office of Communications at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will no longer publish the Marshall Star on nasa.gov. The last public issue will be Oct. 30. To continue reading Marshall news, visit nasa.gov/marshall. Habitation Systems Business Unit Spotlight: Living and Working in Space For centuries, humans have dreamed of […] [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/the-marshall-star-for-october-23-2024/
Читать полностью…#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Melbourne City Lights" The city lights of Melbourne, Australia are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 271 miles above. [October 23, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/iss072e034554orig.jpg
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Welcomes Republic of Cyprus as 46th Artemis Accords Signatory" NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free welcomed the Republic of Cyprus as the latest nation to commit to the responsible use of space for humanity on Wednesday, marking 46 signatories to date. “We applaud Cyprus’ commitment to the Artemis Accords, which will enhance the country’s engagement with NASA and the international community,” said Free, who participated virtually. “By joining 45 other country […] [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-welcomes-republic-of-cyprus-as-46th-artemis-accords-signatory/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "After 60 Years, Nuclear Power for Spaceflight is Still Tried and True" Six decades after the launch of the first nuclear-powered space mission, NASA is embarking on a bold future of human exploration and scientific discovery. [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/technology/rps/after-60-years-nuclear-power-for-spaceflight-is-still-tried-and-true/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Europa Trek: NASA Offers a New Guided Tour of Jupiter’s Ocean Moon" NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is on its way to explore a moon of Jupiter that researchers believe may be one of the best places in the Solar System to search for life beyond Earth. While the spacecraft makes its more-than-five year journey to Europa, scientists, students, teachers, and the public can tour and explore the […] [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/learning-resources/science-activation/europa-trek-nasa-offers-a-new-guided-tour-of-jupiters-ocean-moon/
Читать полностью…#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Stennis Takes Key Step in Expanding its Range Operations Work" NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, has entered into an agreement with Skydweller Aero Inc. for the company to operate its solar-powered autonomous aircraft in the site’s restricted airspace, a key step towards achieving a strategic center goal. The Reimbursable Space Act agreement marks the first between NASA Stennis and a commercial […] [October 23, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/stennis-expanding-range-operations/
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