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Glenn Research Center
People of NASA
>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
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Earth-like Exoplanets
Exoplanet Detection Methods
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanet Transits
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Gas Giant Exoplanets
General
Gravitational Microlensing
Kepler / K2
Missions
Neptune-Like Exoplanets
Neutron Stars
Science & Research
Stars
Studying Exoplanets
Super-Earth Exoplanets
Terrestrial Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Kuiper Belt
The Milky Way
The Solar System
The Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The mission will monitor hundreds of millions of stars in search of tell-tale flickers that betray the presence of planets, distant stars, small icy objects that haunt the outskirts of our solar system, isolated […]
Posted October 24, 2023
General
Ames Research Center
CubeSats
Low-Earth Orbit Economy
Small Satellite Missions
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
SmallSats Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Tech Demo Missions
NASA’s Starling CubeSats are zipping through low Earth orbit in the agency’s latest test of robotic swarm technologies for space.  The four Starling spacecraft, launched in July 2023, are testing a group of small satellites ability to coordinate and cooperate independently without real-time updates from mission control.
Posted October 24, 2023
NASA, on behalf of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV (Rapid-IV) contract to Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio for the QuickSounder spacecraft.
Posted October 23, 2023
Humans in Space
Artemis
Solicitation Number: NNH16ZCQ001K-CIS March 14, 2022 – PresolicitationMarch 29, 2022 – Solicitation ReleasedApril 12, 2022 – Amendment PublishedMay 5, 2022 – Amendment 02 PublishedMay 27, 2022 – Proposals DueOct 11, 2022 – Source Selection Statement Posted | Press Release Solicitation Overview NASA released a solicitation under the Next Space Techn
Posted October 23, 2023
Aeronautics
General
In May 2023, Dr. Natasha Schatzman received the Vertical Flight Society Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Award for her vertical flight research at NASA Ames Research Center.  This annual award is given to a VFS member who is thirty-five years old or younger for outstanding contributions to vertical flight technology.  The award announcement notes that Dr.
Posted October 23, 2023
Dragonfly
Langley Research Center
Missions
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Saturn
Saturn Moons
Science Mission Directorate
Dragonfly Team Utilizes Unique NASA Facilities to Shape Its Innovative Titan-bound Rotorcraft  With its dense atmosphere and low gravity, Saturn’s moon Titan is a great place to fly.  But well before NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander soars through Titan’s skies, researchers on Earth – led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in La
Posted October 23, 2023
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Glenn Research Center
Johnson Space Center
Langley Research Center
Quesst (X-59)
Quesst: The Flights
Quesst: The Mission
Quesst: The Science
Quesst: The Team
Quesst: The Vehicle
Supersonic Flight
Nils Larson, aerospace engineer and test pilot for NASA’s X-59 aircraft, met up with his former student, Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover, on Saturday, Oct. 21 during an open house held at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The pilots originally met more than two decades ago when Larson was an instructor at the […]
Posted October 23, 2023
Humans in Space
In-flight Education Downlinks
International Space Station (ISS)
Learning Resources
Missions
Students from Baldwin Union Free School District in Baldwin, New York, will have an opportunity this week to hear from an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 27, on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.
Posted October 23, 2023
ISS Research
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
The 29th SpaceX commercial resupply services (CRS) mission for NASA carries scientific experiments and technology demonstrations, including studies of enhanced optical communications and measurement of atmospheric waves.
Posted October 23, 2023
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