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NASA Selects Construction Management Services Acquisition Contractor

By |2024-03-28T16:00:00-04:00March 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Abbey A. Donaldson Mar 28, 2024 NASA has selected small business Firelake-Arrowhead NASA Services Joint Venture of Lawrence, Kansas, to acquire construction management, inspection, surveying, and testing services at NASA centers across the country. The Construction Management, Inspection, Surveying, and Testing (CMIST-II) contract was competed as a Small Business 8(a) set-aside, and the maximum [...]

NASA, Salisbury U. Enact Agreement for Workforce Development  

By |2024-03-28T15:13:00-04:00March 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA and Salisbury University (SU) in Maryland signed a collaborative Space Act Agreement Thursday, March 28, 2024, opening new opportunities at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The agreement forges a formal partnership to identify research and engineering projects and activities at Wallops designed [...]

MEDIA ADVISORY: NASA Invites Media to Milestone RS-25 Engine Certification Test

By |2024-03-28T13:42:00-04:00March 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA will host media to view a milestone RS-25 engine test at NASA’s Stennis Space Center on Wednesday, April 3, to certify full production of new engines to help power the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. As NASA explores the universe for the benefit of all, NASA [...]

Mariner 7 Goes to Mars

By |2024-03-28T12:52:00-04:00March 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Monika Luabeya Mar 28, 2024 55 years ago, on March 27, 1969, an Atlas-Centaur rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending Mariner 7 on its way to study Mars. Mariner 7 was the second Mars probe; Mariner 6 launched Feb. 24, 1969, to investigate Mars’ equator. Mariner 7 made a close [...]

NASA, Partners Select Universities for CubeSat Summer Program

By |2024-03-28T12:43:00-04:00March 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Eight university teams have been selected to work with NASA and the U.S. military to improve their small satellite proposals, ultimately increasing the possibility of flying their technology in space, and potentially launching their own careers in the space industry. NASA’s CSLI (CubeSat Launch Initiative) is partnering with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. [...]

Don’t Make Me Wait for April 8!

By |2024-03-28T12:13:00-04:00March 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Can’t wait to see the Moon block the Sun on April 8? Neither can we. But we have good news – if you want to see an incredible cosmic alignment, you can catch one right now! Exoplanets, asteroids, and other objects regularly pass in front of stars and block their light. Observing these events is [...]

MEDIA ADVISORY: S24-015 NASA Invites Media to Milestone RS-25 Engine Certification Test

By |2024-03-28T10:41:00-04:00March 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA will host media to view a milestone RS-25 engine test at NASA’s Stennis Space Center on Wednesday, April 3, to certify full production of new engines to help power the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. As NASA explores the universe for the benefit of all, NASA [...]

Three-Year Study of Young Stars with NASA’s Hubble Enters New Chapter

By |2024-03-28T10:02:00-04:00March 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

In the largest and one of the most ambitious Hubble Space Telescope programs ever executed, a team of scientists and engineers collected information on almost 500 stars over a three-year period. This effort offers new insights into the stars' formation, evolution, and impact on their surroundings.  This comprehensive survey, called ULLYSES (Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young [...]

NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Expedition 70 Science Highlights

By |2024-03-28T10:00:00-04:00March 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara is returning home after six months aboard the International Space Station. During her time on the orbiting laboratory, O’Hara contributed to dozens of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to prepare for future space exploration missions and generate innovations and benefits for humanity on Earth. Here is a look at some [...]

Stunning Echo of 800-year-old Explosion

By |2024-03-28T09:27:00-04:00March 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

In the year 1181 a rare supernova explosion appeared in the night sky, staying visible for 185 consecutive days. Historical records show that the supernova looked like a temporary ‘star’ in the constellation Cassiopeia shining as bright as Saturn. Ever since, scientists have tried to find the supernova’s remnant. At first it was thought that this could be [...]

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