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Aging and Fragility Biomarkers are Altered by Spaceflight

By |2024-11-14T18:53:00-05:00November 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Parallels between spaceflight and the aging process may extend to encompass frailty. Figure Left: Venn diagram of differentially expressed frailty genes in rodent and human samples shows the common differentially expressed genes between the two species. Figure Right: Schematic of the Inspiration4 experiments and samples. This study relied on data from the OSDR, including 7 [...]

La NASA y Perú acuerdan estudiar una posible campaña de lanzamiento de cohetes sonda

By |2024-11-14T16:54:00-05:00November 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

El viceministro de Políticas para la Defensa del Ministerio de Defensa de Perú, César Medardo Torres Vega, el administrador de la NASA, Bill Nelson, y el director de la Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacial del Perú (CONIDA), mayor general Roberto Melgar Sheen, se reúnen en Lima, Perú, el 14 de noviembre de 2024, [...]

Meet the Space Ops Team: Diana Oglesby

By |2024-11-14T16:42:00-05:00November 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Diana Oglesby’s love for NASA began long before she started working for the agency. A native of Decatur, Texas, Oglesby knew at the age of eight that she would make NASA her future destination. That dream became a reality when Oglesby joined the agency, [...]

NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Space Weather Program

By |2024-11-14T16:08:00-05:00November 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio to build three coronagraphs for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next program. Once operational, the coronagraphs will provide critical data to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, which issues forecasts, [...]

NASA Johnson Invites Proposals to Lease Vibration Test Facility

By |2024-11-14T15:49:00-05:00November 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Johnson Space Center Vibration Test FacilityNASA Nov. 14, 2024 NASA Johnson Invites Proposals to Lease Vibration Test Facility NASA’s Johnson Space Center is seeking proposals for the use of its historic, but underused, Vibration and Acoustic Test Facility. Prospective tenants must submit facility walk-through requests by Monday, Nov. 18. Final proposals are due by 12 p.m. [...]

NASA, Peru Agree to Study Potential Sounding Rocket Campaign

By |2024-11-14T15:43:00-05:00November 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Peru’s Vice Minister of Defense Policies for Ministry of Defense César Medardo Torres Vega, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and Director of Peru’s National Commission for Aerospace Research and Development (CONIDA) Maj. Gen. Roberto Melgar Sheen meet in Lima, Peru, Nov. 14, 2024, where the U.S. and Peru signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to study [...]

South Pole Safety: Designing the NASA Lunar Rescue System

By |2024-11-14T15:07:00-05:00November 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

In the unforgiving lunar environment, the possibility of an astronaut crewmember becoming incapacitated due to unforeseen circumstances (injury, medical emergency, or a mission-related accident) is a critical concern, starting with the upcoming Artemis III mission, where two astronaut crewmembers will explore the Lunar South Pole. The Moon’s surface is littered with rocks ranging from [...]

NASA Leadership Hosts Future-Focused Dialogues with Kennedy Employees

By |2024-11-14T14:39:00-05:00November 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy (front center left) discusses NASA 2040 on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, the agency’s strategic initiative for aligning workforce, infrastructure, and technologies to meet the needs of the future with various groups of employees at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The initiative launched in June 2023 to implement [...]

Precision Pointing Goes the Distance on NASA Experiment

By |2024-11-14T14:21:00-05:00November 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The laser that transmits between NASA’s Psyche spacecraft and Earth-based observatories for the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment successfully reaches its target thanks, in part, to a vibration isolation platform developed by Controlled Dynamics Inc., and supported by several Space Technology Mission Directorate programs. [...]

55 Years Ago: Apollo 12 Launches

By |2024-11-14T14:03:00-05:00November 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA The Apollo 12 spacecraft launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this image from Nov. 14, 1969, with astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., and Alan L. Bean aboard. During liftoff, the Saturn V rocket which carried the Apollo capsule was struck twice by lightning. On Nov. 19, 1969, the [...]

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