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Marshall Space Flight Center
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge.  Since 2020, competitors from around the world have competed in this challenge with the common goal of inventing robots that can excavate and transport the icy […]
Posted June 13, 2024
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Background: To protect astronauts from spaceflight health risks like solar radiation and microgravity, scientists develop countermeasures by studying model organisms exposed to the space environment.
Posted June 13, 2024
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June 11, 2024 – The Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) package, the largest-ever collection of data for aerospace medicine and space biology, was publicly released on Tuesday! This monumental achievement was made possible through the collaborative efforts of over 100 institutions from more than 25 countries.
Posted June 13, 2024
Johnson Space Center
Black History Month
Commercial Space
Commercial Space Programs
Diversity at NASA
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International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
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People of Johnson
People of NASA
STEM Engagement at NASA
The Future of Commercial Space
Women at NASA
Lakita Lowe is at the forefront of space commercialization, seamlessly merging scientific expertise with visionary leadership to propel NASA’s commercial ambitions and ignite a passion for STEM in future generations.
Posted June 12, 2024
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During the Rodent Research-1 (RR-1) mission flown to the ISS in 2014, videos that were taken to observe the mice revealed an unusual behavior that researchers are still working to understand. Young (16-week-old) but not old (32-week-old) mice engaged in a high level of ‘running’ behavior beginning within two weeks of launch (Sci Reports, 2019).
Posted June 12, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Learning Resources
MUREP
STEM Engagement at NASA
Students from a minority-serving university in California are helping solve challenges of autonomous systems for future drone operations on Earth and other planets. These students are making the most of opportunities with NASA, the U.S.
Posted June 12, 2024
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On May 21-23, 2024, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) visited NASA Ames Research Center, with participants representing 13 agencies and organizations. NWCG is a cooperative group focused on providing national leadership to enable interoperable wildland fire operations among federal, state, local, Tribal, and territorial partners.
Posted June 12, 2024
Glenn Research Center
AeroSpace Frontiers
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The Military Basketball Association (MBA) has inducted Yvette V. Harris, Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity director at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, into the 2024 MBA Hall of Fame.
Posted June 11, 2024
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Adam Kobelski (ST13) gave a presentation at the National Space Club Monthly Breakfast at the Jackson Center in Huntsville. The talk discussed preparing for the April 2024 Solar Eclipse and the Heliophysics research done at MSFC. Approximately 300 industry and academia stakeholders were in attendance.
Posted June 10, 2024
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Ames Research Center
Astrogram
Swarming for Success: Starling Completes Primary Mission by Tara Friesen After ten months in orbit, the Starling spacecraft swarm successfully demonstrated its primary mission’s key objectives, representing significant achievements in the capability of swarm configurations.  Swarms of satellites may one day be used in deep space exploration.
Posted June 8, 2024
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