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This November, Celebrate National Scholarship Month With SWE’s Scholarship Recipients

By |2024-11-19T12:29:00-05:00November 19th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Every November, National Scholarship Month applauds the accomplishments of scholarship recipients and the organizations that help them on their journey to turn their dreams to reality.

Undulatus Clouds over Las Campanas Observatory

By |2024-11-19T08:09:06-05:00November 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening with these clouds? While it may seem that these long and thin clouds are pointing toward the top of a hill, and that maybe a world-famous observatory is located there, only part of that is true. In terms of clouds, the formation is a chance superposition of impressively [...]

Artemis II Orion Lift to Vac Chamber

By |2024-11-18T19:09:24-05:00November 18th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The altitude chamber simulates deep space vacuum [...]

Artemis II Orion Lift to Vac Chamber

By |2024-11-18T19:09:23-05:00November 18th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A technician connects support straps to a crane as it prepares to lift NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and Systems Testing cell to the altitude chamber inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. The altitude chamber simulates deep [...]

Artemis II Orion Lift to Vac Chamber

By |2024-11-18T19:09:22-05:00November 18th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The altitude chamber simulates deep space vacuum [...]

Artemis II Orion Lift to Vac Chamber

By |2024-11-18T19:09:21-05:00November 18th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The altitude chamber simulates deep space vacuum [...]

Artemis II Orion Lift to Vac Chamber

By |2024-11-18T19:09:20-05:00November 18th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The altitude chamber simulates deep space vacuum [...]

Stars and Dust in the Pacman Nebula

By |2024-11-18T08:09:10-05:00November 18th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust as well as [...]

LDN 1471: A Windblown Star Cavity

By |2024-11-17T08:09:25-05:00November 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What is the cause of this unusual parabolic structure? This illuminated cavity, known as LDN 1471, was created by a newly forming star, seen as the bright source at the peak of the parabola. This protostar is experiencing a stellar outflow which is then interacting with the surrounding material in [...]

SWE Pune Affiliate: Exciting Highlights from “WOW That’s Engineering!” STEM Event

By |2024-11-15T10:53:00-05:00November 15th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Forty high school girls engaged in hands-on projects and learned about career opportunities in engineering at this inspiring outreach event in Pune, India.

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