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Langley Celebrates Pride Month: Derek Bramble

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Derek Bramble is a HR Business Partner with NASA’s Langley Research Center. Over his 14-year career at NASA Langley, Bramble has served in a variety of mission and program support roles.NASA/Ryan Torrisi Derek Bramble has served in a variety of mission and program support [...]

By |2024-06-27T14:12:00-04:00June 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

How Engineering Data Scientist Uzoma Ochulor Returned to Work After a Career Break

Uzoma Ochulor left the workforce for a year to earn a master’s degree that upskilled her career for the future. Read her story and learn more about SWE’s reentry resources for engineers. Source

By |2024-06-27T13:37:00-04:00June 27th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Mapping the Red Planet with the Power of Open Science

4 min read Mapping the Red Planet with the Power of Open Science This image of Perseverance’s backshell sitting upright on the surface of Jezero Crater was collected from an altitude of 26 feet (8 meters) by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 26th flight at Mars on April 19, 2022. NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars rovers [...]

By |2024-06-27T13:37:00-04:00June 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Parachute Sensor Testing Could Make EPIC Mars Landings

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Coby Asselin, from left, Adam Curry, and L. J. Hantsche set up the data acquisition systems used during testing of a senor to determine parachute canopy material strength at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The sensor tests seek to quantify the [...]

By |2024-06-27T13:24:00-04:00June 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Celebrates 10 Years of Human Spaceflight’s NExT Pioneers

Experienced spacewalkers, university students, flight controllers, and NASA team members at all stages of their career recently came together at Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) for an anniversary celebration that looked to the future as much as the past. The Office of STEM Engagement’s Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT) marked [...]

By |2024-06-27T12:50:00-04:00June 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Liftoff! Redesigned NASA Ames Visitor Center Engages Kids, Families

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Chabot Space & Science Center director Adam Tobin, right, welcomes NASA Ames center director Eugene Tu, left, and deputy center director David Korsmeyer, center, to the updated NASA Ames Visitor Center. NASA/Donald Richey The San Francisco Bay Area has a new and interactive way [...]

By |2024-06-27T12:47:00-04:00June 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Mars Odyssey Captures Huge Volcano, Nears 100,000 Orbits

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured this single image of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, on March 11, 2024. Besides providing an unprecedented view of the volcano, the image helps scientists study different layers of material in the atmosphere, including [...]

By |2024-06-27T12:13:00-04:00June 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA eClips Engages Families at 2024 STEM Community Day

2 min read NASA eClips Engages Families at 2024 STEM Community Day On Saturday, June 1, 2024, thousands of community members attended the Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Community Day hosted by Christopher Newport University in partnership with Newport News Public Schools in Virginia. The event showcased many different facets of STEM fields and [...]

By |2024-06-27T11:29:00-04:00June 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Marshall Star for June 26, 2024

22 Min Read The Marshall Star for June 26, 2024 Blasting into Summer: Thousands Enjoy NASA in the Park By Wayne Smith It was a super Saturday in the park to celebrate space and the Rocket City. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center joined Downtown Huntsville Inc. and other community partners to host NASA in [...]

By |2024-06-26T18:14:00-04:00June 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Selects International Space Station US Deorbit Vehicle

NASA logo NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space exploration at the Moon and Mars. As the agency transitions to commercially owned space destinations closer to home, it is crucial to prepare for the safe and responsible deorbit of the International [...]

By |2024-06-26T16:48:00-04:00June 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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