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The Marshall Star for August 28, 2024

Marshall Leadership Updates Team Members on Culture, Strategy By Wayne Smith Leadership from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center highlighted a successful summer before looking ahead to the center’s culture and strategy during an all-hands meeting Aug. 27 in Building 4316.

Posted August 28, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Expands Human Exploration Rover Challenge to Middle Schools

By Wayne Smith Following a 2024 competition that garnered international attention, NASA is expanding its Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) to include a remote control division and inviting middle school students to participate. The 31st annual competition is scheduled for April 11-12, 2025, at the U.S.

Posted August 28, 2024

Mark C. Lee

Space Shuttle

STS-64

A SAFER Way

On Sept. 16, 1994, astronaut Mark C. Lee tested out the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system, a system designed for use in the event a crew member becomes untethered while conducting a spacewalk. Occurring during the STS-64 mission, this was the first untethered U.S. spacewalk in 10 years. This SAFER test was the […]

Posted August 28, 2024

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Biological & Physical Sciences

Flight Opportunities Program

Physical Sciences Program

Technology

Technology for Space Travel

First NASA-Supported Researcher to Fly on Suborbital Rocket

For the first time, a NASA-funded researcher will fly with their experiment on a commercial suborbital rocket.

Posted August 28, 2024

Jonny Kim

Astronauts

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

NASA Assigns Astronaut Jonny Kim to First Space Station Mission

During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft in March 2025, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky.

Posted August 28, 2024

General

Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Climate Change

Earth

Earth Science Division

Opportunities For Students to Get Involved

Science Activation

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Project in Puerto Rico Trains Students in Marine Biology

Tainaliz Marie Rodríguez Lugo took a deep breath, adjusted her snorkel mask, and plunged into the ocean, fins first. Three weeks earlier, Rodríguez Lugo couldn’t swim. Now the college student was gathering data on water quality and coral reefs for a NASA-led marine biology project in Puerto Rico, where she lives. “There is so much […]

Posted August 28, 2024

General

SBIR STTR

Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business

NASA Pilot Program Continues to Award Small Business Innovators

Earlier this month, nine small businesses received 2023 NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Ignite Phase II awards to further develop technologies that may be used in the agency’s missions and in the commercial space industry. The SBIR Ignite Phase II awardees, who will receive up to $850,000 to fund their projects, are developing techn

Posted August 28, 2024

Missions

Commercial Crew

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

Kennedy Space Center

NASA, SpaceX Extend US Media Deadline for Crew-9 Launch to Station

NASA is extending U.S. media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ninth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The application period for U.S. media and U.S.

Posted August 28, 2024

NASA History

STS-128

15 Years Ago: STS-128 Delivers Cargo to Enable Six-Person Space Station Crew

On Aug. 28, 2009, space shuttle Discovery began its 37th trip into space. The 17A mission to the International Space Station was the 30th shuttle flight to the orbiting lab. During the 14-day mission, the seven-member STS-128 crew worked with Expedition 20, the first six-person crew aboard the station, during nine days of docked operations. […]

Posted August 28, 2024

NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope)

Comets

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)

Planetary Defense

Planetary Defense Coordination Office

Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter

The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA’s new asteroid-hunting spacecraft is taking shape at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

Posted August 28, 2024