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Tune in to This Week’s Prelaunch Events for First Robotic Artemis Moon Flight 

Ahead of launch as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander is preparing to be encapsulated in the payload fairing, or nose cone, of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket on Nov. 21, 2023, at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch of [...]

By |2024-01-04T10:00:00-05:00January 4th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 241: Championing Inclusion With Global Activist-Scholar Morénike Giwa Onaiwu

Learn about equity and inclusion for the neurodivergent community in this conversation with Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, founder of Advocacy Without Borders. Source

By |2024-01-02T10:54:00-05:00January 2nd, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

NASA Announces Winners of 2024 Commercial Crew Program Artwork Contest

NASA received more than 3,000 entries from around the world for this year’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) Children’s Artwork Calendar contest. Of those, the agency has selected 36 first-, second-, and third-place winners to display in the calendar for 2024. The contest invited children to submit original artwork related to four overarching themes: rockets [...]

By |2023-12-21T13:44:00-05:00December 21st, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Part 2: Artificial Intelligence and NASA’s First Robotic Lunar Rover

In our last post, we described how VIPER, NASA’s first robotic Moon rover, is using artificial intelligence to create several options for the VIPER team to plan the rover’s path during its mission to the lunar South Pole. Today, we’ll share more about how AI also is used to help human operators drive VIPER [...]

By |2023-12-14T12:11:00-05:00December 14th, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |
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