April 30, 2020 Credits: NASA NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) are inviting coders, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, artists, and technologists to participate in a virtual hackathon May 30-31 dedicated to putting open data to work in developing solutions to issues related to …
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April 30, 2020 Illustration of Artemis astronauts on the Moon. Credits: NASA NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency’s Artemis program, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface of the Moon by 2024. NASA is on track for sustainable human exploration of the Moon …
April 29, 2020 Vaneeza Rupani (inset), a junior at Tuscaloosa County High School in Northport, Alabama, came up with the name Ingenuity for NASA’s Mars Helicopter (an artist’s impression of which is seen here) and the motivation behind it during NASA’s “Name the Rover” essay contest. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Destined to become the first …
April 25, 2020 James Beggs, NASA’s sixth administrator Credits: NASA The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the passing of the agency’s sixth administrator, James Beggs, on April 23. Mr. Beggs served as NASA administrator from July 1981 to December 1985. “NASA sends its condolences to the …
New Delhi, April 9, 2020: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the India US Partnership is stronger than ever. Shri Modi was responding to a tweet from the US President H.E. Donald Trump who expressed his gratitude for India’s decision to supply Hydroxychloroquine, in the USA’s fight against COVID-19. …
March 19, 2020 NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken familiarize themselves with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, the spacecraft that will transport them to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Their upcoming flight test is known as Demo-2, short for Demonstration Mission 2. The Crew Dragon …
NASA’s annual Spinoff publication highlights ways space technology makes life better on Earth. Credits: NASA As NASA pushes the frontiers of science and human exploration, the agency also advances technology to modernize life on Earth, including drones, self-driving cars and other innovations. NASA’s diverse missions spur the creation and improvement …
Flight Engineer Andrew Morgan unpacks a crew transfer bag. Credits: NASA/ Expedition 60 crew. Florida students will have an opportunity this week to talk with a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 12:40 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 27, on NASA television and the …
Using two research aircraft based at NASA’s Langley Research Center, scientists will fly below, through and above clouds over the western North Atlantic ocean to study how clouds form, evolve and affect their surroundings. Credits: NASA/Luke Ziemba NASA, FEBRUARY 20,2020: Media are invited to preview a NASA airborne science campaign …
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft launched on an Antares 230+ rocket from the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0A at Wallops at 3:21 p.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with about 7,500 pounds of …