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NASA Selects Langley Research Center Support Contractor

Credit: NASA NASA has awarded the Center, Operations Maintenance, and Engineering II contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to support operations at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $973.7 million. Following a phase-in period that starts Tuesday, Oct. [...]

By |2024-09-05T16:11:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

New Hardware for Future Artemis Moon Missions Arrive at NASA Kennedy

On the left, the Canopee transport carrier containing the European Service Module for NASA’s Artemis III mission arrives at Port Canaveral in Florida, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, before completing the last leg of its journey to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center’s Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout via truck. On the right, NASA’s Pegasus [...]

By |2024-09-05T15:29:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Boeing Starliner Mission Landing Criteria, Timeline 

NASA and Boeing teams work around Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft after it landed at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico for the company’s Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2.NASA/Bill Ingalls As NASA and Boeing prepare to return the company’s Starliner spacecraft uncrewed from the International Space Station to Earth, safety and mission [...]

By |2024-09-05T10:58:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Join the Eclipsing Binary Patrol and Spot Rare Stellar Pairs!

Eclipsing binary stars point the way to exoplanets and many other discoveries. Be one of the first to join the new Eclipsing Binary Patrol project and help discover them! NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Eclipsing binaries are special pairs of stars that cross in front of one another as they orbit—stars that take turns blocking [...]

By |2024-09-05T10:50:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Ames Wind Tunnel

Construction of the Ames wind tunnel and its original 40- by 80-foot test section. A later expansion created an additional 80- by 120-foot test section. A Navy blimp, which would have been based at Hangars 2 and 3 at Moffett Field, patrols in the background. Image Credit: NACA [...]

By |2024-09-05T10:49:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA to Support DARPA Robotic Satellite Servicing Program

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Two robotic arms wrapped in gold material sitting on top of a black and silver box.Naval Research Laboratory NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have signed an interagency agreement to collaborate on a satellite servicing demonstration in geosynchronous Earth orbit, where [...]

By |2024-09-05T10:30:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Navigating the Workplace: Latinas in Engineering and Corporate Culture

Each month throughout the year, we spotlight a SWE Affinity Group. In this post, two members of the Latinos AG explore the challenges faced by Latinas in the workplace. Source

By |2024-09-05T10:08:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars’ Escaping Water

Hubble Space Telescope Home NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN… Missions Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science [...]

By |2024-09-05T10:00:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Eclipses Create Atmospheric Gravity Waves, NASA Student Teams Confirm

4 Min Read Eclipses Create Atmospheric Gravity Waves, NASA Student Teams Confirm In this photo taken from the International Space Station, the Moon passes in front of the Sun casting its shadow, or umbra, and darkening a portion of the Earth's surface above Texas during the annular solar eclipse Oct. 14, 2023. Credits: NASA [...]

By |2024-09-05T09:09:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA Tunnel Generates Decades of Icy Aircraft Safety Data

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics researcher notes the conditions on the P-39L after its first test run in the Icing Research Tunnel on Sept. 13, 1944. The aircraft was too large to fit in the test section, so it was installed downstream in [...]

By |2024-09-05T08:12:00-04:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |
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