Credit: NASA NASA has awarded $3.9 million to 13 teams at under-resourced academic institutions across the country, to support collaborative projects with NASA that offer students mentorship and career development in science, technology, engineering, and math. This is the second round of seed funding awards given through the agency’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Bridge Program, [...]
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) On the space shuttle Columbia flight STS-93, the first lithium-ion battery flown on a human spaceflight was used to power a video camera. While working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Judy Jeevarajan devised the testing processes to ensure the battery was safe to use [...]
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Brad Flick, center director at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, amplifies the center’s safety commitment during Safety Day on April 2, 2024, at NASA Armstrong.NASA/Steve Freeman NASA works on projects that often have never been done, or perhaps the way they are being done has [...]
3 min read NASA/JAXA’s XRISM Mission Captures Unmatched Data With Just 36 Pixels At a time when phone cameras are capable of taking snapshots with millions of pixels, an instrument on the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) satellite captures revolutionary science with just 36 of them. “That may sound impossible, but it’s [...]
“When people begin their careers, they start as an individual contributor. You’re a technical expert; your worth and your value are based on what you know and what you can do as an individual. “Then there’s an interesting journey that you have to take from an individual contributor to a leader of people. I [...]
Mrinal Karvir discusses the different types of bias that exist in AI, as well as how engineers can help reduce bias in this technology, in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast. Source
6 Min Read NASA’s Webb Maps Weather on Planet 280 Light-Years Away This artist’s concept shows what the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b could look like. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant [...]
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Members of Team Miles with the CubeSat developed during the NASA Cube Quest Challenge. From left to right: Alex Wingeier, Don Smith, Wes Faler.Image credit: Team Miles In its pursuit to develop groundbreaking technologies to explore space and benefit life on Earth, NASA invites [...]
Photo of the Day The star system GK Per is known to be associated with only two of the three nebulas pictured. At 1500 light years distant, Nova Persei 1901 (GK Persei) was the second closest nova yet recorded. At the very center is a white dwarf star, the surviving core of a former [...]
Gateway’s Lunar I-Hab and HALO modules under construction at a Thales Alenia Space industrial plant in Turin, Italy. ESA/Stephane Corvaja The Artemis IV mission is taking shape with major hardware for Gateway, humanity’s first space station to orbit the Moon, progressing in Turin, Italy. NASA will launch HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost), center of image [...]
