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On April 8, NASA and its partners will celebrate the wonders of the total solar eclipse as it passes over North America, with the path of totality in the United States, from Kerrville, Texas, to Houlton, Maine. Eclipses are an important contribution to NASA’s research into the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, and the part […]
Posted April 4, 2024
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Goddard Space Flight Center
Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work “to the widest extent practicable.” From typewritten press releases to analog photos and film, NASA has effectively moved into social media and other online communications.
Posted April 3, 2024
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2024 NASA Aeronautics Monthly STEM Newsletter: Issue 35 NASA Aeronautics Monthly STEM Newsletter: Issue 34 Aeronautics STEM
Posted April 2, 2024
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OK, we generally start with your early years, your childhood, where you’re from, and a little bit about your family at the time. Where you grew up, I think it was in Spain? Do you have siblings, what did your parents do, that sort of thing.  And how early was it in your life that […]
Posted April 1, 2024
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Ames Research Center
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
NASA’s VIPER – short for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – now stands taller and more capable than ever. And that’s thanks to its mast. VIPER’s mast, and the suite of instruments affixed to it, looks a lot like the rover’s “neck” and “head.” The mast instruments are designed to help the team of rover drivers […]
Posted April 1, 2024
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Artemis
Human Landing System Program
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA selected 12 finalist teams to compete in the next round of the Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) competition. In 2023, NASA invited undergraduate and graduate students from accredited colleges and universities in the United States to propose innovative solutions to manage the lunar dust a spacecraft stirs up when landing on the Moon.
Posted March 29, 2024
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NASA and its partners are developing the foundational systems needed for long-term exploration at the Moon for the benefit of all with NASA’s Artemis campaign. Following the Artemis III mission that will land the first people near the Moon’s South Pole, astronauts on Artemis IV will live and work in humanity’s first lunar space station, […]
Posted March 29, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Eclipses
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Solar Eclipses
At Total Eclipse Fest 2024, a celestial celebration from April 6-8 at Great Lakes Science Center in downtown Cleveland, NASA’s Glenn Research Center will debut a set of six special edition postcards featuring retro artwork and fun facts about the center’s world-class facilities, capabilities, and work to explore and innovate for the benefit of all.
Posted March 29, 2024
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CubeSat Launch Initiative
For Colleges & Universities
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Learning Resources
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.
Posted March 28, 2024
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IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
On March 23, NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) stopped transmitting valid telemetry data. The only previous interruption of IXPE science observations was due to a similar issue in June of 2023.
Posted March 27, 2024
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