Copyright 2024 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2024-07-15 WASHINGTON, July 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will recognize legendary human computer Dorothy Vaughan and the women of Apollo with activities marking their achievements, including a renaming and ribbon-cutting ceremony at the center’s “Building 12,” on Friday, July 19, the eve of the …
Copyright 2024 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2024-07-03 WASHINGTON, July 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as its backup crew member for the agency’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign. Douglas will train alongside NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut …
Copyright 2024 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2024-06-14 WASHINGTON, June 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA will host a virtual media briefing at 3:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 20, to discuss a new summary of a recent tabletop exercise to simulate national and international responses to a hypothetical asteroid impact threat. The fifth biennial Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop …
Copyright 2024 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2024-06-14 WASHINGTON, June 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Media are invited in late July to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see progress on the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket as preparations continue for the Artemis II test flight around the Moon. Participants joining the multi-day events will …
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, and an international team have successfully harnessed ultra-fast spin behavior in ferromagnets. Their research, published in Physical Review Letters and recognized as an editor’s suggestion, opens pathways for applications operating at terahertz frequencies. Today’s electronics run at gigahertz speeds, but this discovery could enable devices a thousand times …
Copyright 2024 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2024-04-30 SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services Mission for NASA returns to Earth after more than 35 days onboard the International Space Station KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Research on a novel vision loss therapy and space-manufactured optical fibers were among the nearly 565 pounds of …
Copyright 2024 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2024-04-30 WASHINGTON, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA has awarded $3.9 million to 13 teams at under-resourced academic institutions across the country, to support collaborative projects with NASA that offer students mentorship and career development in science, technology, engineering, and math. This is the second round of seed funding …
Copyright 2024 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2024-04-18 Warm Arctic-Cold Continent events are expected to intensify until the 2020s but decline post-2030s, impacting the global weather dynamics. GWANGJU, South Korea, April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — According to Copernicus Climate Change Service, February 2024 was the warmest February ever recorded globally. However, North America, Asia, and parts of …
Copyright 2024 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2024-03-26 WASHINGTON, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA has chosen the first science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during Artemis III. Once installed near the lunar South Pole, the three instruments will collect valuable scientific data about the lunar environment, the lunar …
Copyright 2024 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2024-03-18 WASHINGTON, March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday’s passing of Thomas Stafford, a lifelong space exploration advocate, former NASA astronaut, and U.S. Air Force general: “Today, General Tom Stafford went to the eternal heavens, which he so courageously explored …