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NASA Names First Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Credit: NASA NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday named David Salvagnini as the agency’s new chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer, effective immediately. The role is an expansion of Salvagnini’s current role as chief data officer. A wide variety of AI tools are used by NASA to benefit humanity from supporting missions and research projects across [...]

By |2024-05-13T12:36:00-04:00May 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Johnson Celebrates AA and NHPI Heritage Month: Meet Hemanth Koralla

Hemanth Koralla was working as a software developer for General Motors when he received a LinkedIn message inviting him to apply for a NASA contract position with Jacobs Technology. While unexpected, Koralla seized the opportunity. “You can’t say no to NASA!” Koralla has spent the last two years helping to develop the Vehicle System Manager [...]

By |2024-05-13T11:07:00-04:00May 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

AR 3664 on a Setting Sun

Photo of the Day It was larger than the Earth. It was so big you could actually see it on the Sun's surface without magnification. It contained powerful and tangled magnetic fields as well as numerous dark sunspots. Labelled AR 3664, it developed into one of the most energetic areas seen on the Sun [...]

By |2024-05-13T09:09:10-04:00May 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

15 Years Ago: STS-125, the Final Hubble Servicing Mission

 “Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a lake.” James B. Odom, Hubble Program Manager 1983-1990. The fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, placed in orbit in 1990, took place during the STS-125 mission in May 2009. During the 13-day flight, [...]

By |2024-05-13T08:03:00-04:00May 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Invites Media to Expedition 70 Crew Visit at Marshall

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)  Four Expedition 70 crew members pose for a fun portrait inside their crew quarters aboard the International Space Station’s Harmony module. Clockwise from bottom are, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen; JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa; [...]

By |2024-05-10T16:55:00-04:00May 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Sols 4182-4183: We Reached the South Side of Pinnacle Ridge… What’s Next?

3 min read Sols 4182-4183: We Reached the South Side of Pinnacle Ridge… What’s Next? This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4180 (2024-05-10 03:55:37 UTC). NASA/JPL-Caltech Earth planning date: Friday, May 10, 2024 We planned quite a drive on Wednesday, with lots of twists and turns [...]

By |2024-05-10T16:43:00-04:00May 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Awards Expand Research Capabilities at Institutions Nationwide

A photo of a team of researchers from the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras while working to discover a more efficient water recycling system for use on space missions. The team is comprised of doctoral students Liz Santiago-Martoral, on the left, and Alondra Rodriguez-Rolon, and their mentor Professor Eduardo Nicolau. One of their experiments can [...]

By |2024-05-10T16:34:00-04:00May 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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