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Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology
A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air taxi rides and collect data that will help designers create new aircraft with passenger comfort in mind.
Posted June 27, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Ames Research Center
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Space Technology Mission Directorate
Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you don’t have enough information about how the parachutes are enduring strain during the descent to the surface.
Posted June 27, 2024
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Artemis
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Humans in Space
Space Launch System (SLS)
As a child learning about basic engineering, you probably tried and failed to join a square-shaped toy with a circular-shaped toy: you needed a third shape to act as an adapter and connect them both together. On a much larger scale, integration of NASA’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and the Orion spacecraft for […]
Posted June 25, 2024
Spinoffs
Glenn History
Glenn Research Center
NASA History
Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
Solar power is abundant – when the Sun is shining. Wind power is steady – when the wind is blowing. However, creating a steady electricity supply from intermittent power sources is a challenge. NASA was focused on this problem more than 45 years ago when the agency designed a new type of liquid battery during the […]
Posted June 20, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Aeronautics
Careers
People of NASA
Women at NASA
You’d think a NASA aerospace engineer who spends her days inside a giant dome researching how to make plane engines quieter and spacecraft systems more efficient would have a pretty booked schedule. Still, advocacy and mentoring, especially for women and girls in STEM, is something Danielle Koch always tries to say yes to. For decades, […]
Posted June 20, 2024
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Electrified Powertrain Flight Demo
Glenn Research Center
Green Aviation Tech
Integrated Aviation Systems Program
At a simulated 27,500 feet inside an altitude chamber at NASA’s Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) facility, engineers at magniX recently demonstrated the capabilities of a battery-powered engine that could help turn hybrid electric flight into a reality.   This milestone, completed in April 2024, marks the end of the first phase in a series of altit
Posted June 18, 2024
AeroSpace Frontiers
Glenn Research Center
NASA’s Glenn Research Center public engagement staff arrived in Minnesota for the Duluth Air and Aviation Expo, May 17-18, with several exhibits and two hometown stars who joined as part of a larger NASA presence. Duluthian Heather McDonald met with local students to talk about living and working in space and how she became the […]
Posted June 11, 2024
Glenn Research Center
AeroSpace Frontiers
General
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
Glenn Research Center
Research shows that STEM education is important to middle school students because it helps them develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Posted June 11, 2024
Glenn Research Center
AeroSpace Frontiers
General
Four of NASA Glenn Research Center’s digital specialists were selected as 2023 NASA Photographers and Videographers of the Year. The winning photos and videos showcased NASA’s people, places, and projects, as captured by NASA’s talented photographers and videographers. There were numerous submissions from all NASA centers for several categories.
Posted May 21, 2024
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