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NASA Associate Administrator and former astronaut Robert Cabana announced Monday his retirement, effective Sunday, Dec. 31 after more than 38 years of service.
Posted November 13, 2023
Glenn Research Center
Careers
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John Glenn. Neil Armstrong. Buzz Aldrin. Jim Lovell. Guion Bluford. These iconic astronauts shared a commonality before they began their careers at NASA: They all served in the United States military.
Posted November 9, 2023
Diversity at NASA
Native American Heritage Month
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Casey Denham, aerospace engineer with the Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, works with tribal students during a STEM activity at the American Indian Engineering Sciences (AISES) National Conference in Spokane, Washington, Oct. 19-21, 2023.
Posted November 8, 2023
SERVIR (Regional Visualization and Monitoring System)
Earth
General
Marshall Space Flight Center
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By Celine Smith “As the seedlings were placed in the water, I felt a moment of déjà vu,” said NASA scientist Tony Kim. “I was taken back to when I was a child playing in similar fields in South Korea. It felt like I was meant to be there bringing space to village with satellite […]
Posted November 8, 2023
Artemis
Glenn Research Center
International Space Station (ISS)
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<back to gallery Growing up, Sarah Tipler always felt out of place. She had trouble with time management, structuring her day, and focusing her attention, but she didn’t know why. “For all of my undergraduate education, I really struggled to keep up despite understanding the material,” Tipler said. “It took a ton of work to […]
Posted October 30, 2023
NASA Centers & Facilities
Artemis
Gateway Program
Kennedy Space Center
Mars
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A yearlong journey of cultural and professional development overseas has a NASA Deep Space Logistics employee excited about current and future collaboration with one of America’s key international partners in the agency’s Artemis program.    Katherine Cook, who develops cargo delivery services for NASA’s Gateway, recently returned to the agency’s K
Posted October 27, 2023
Glenn Research Center
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>back to gallery Maricela Lizcano never dreamed of working for NASA. In fact, she wasn’t planning on furthering her education until she had a revelation in her late twenties. “I was watching one of those forensic shows, and I loved the way they caught the criminals with science,” said Lizcano, research materials engineer at NASA’s […]
Posted October 24, 2023
Glenn Research Center
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<back to gallery As a little boy in Málaga, Spain, Carlos Garcia-Galan had his sights set on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. “It’s something that called to me from the very beginning.
Posted October 11, 2023
Glenn Research Center
Diversity at NASA
Fission Surface Power (FSP)
General
Hispanic Heritage Month
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<back to gallery Finding a job at NASA doesn’t always happen on the first try. For Abigail Rodriguez, she wasn’t going to let anything get in her way of working for NASA and was resilient in finding a job where she could use her civil engineering degree. Rodriguez attended multiple job fairs and applied online […]
Posted October 4, 2023
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“I can almost directly trace my entire career back to [my extracurriculars] in high school and a mentor I had. My first foray into engineering was this high school program called the Robotics Science Academy. It was basically my high school’s attempt to put together a curriculum that was designed specifically to prepare students for […]
Posted October 2, 2023
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