As we continue to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, the NASA Office of Small Business Programs is pleased to share the contributions of Bastion Technologies Inc. (Bastion), a Hispanic-owned company that supports NASA’s missions. Their primary role is in Safety & Mission Assurance at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This includes systems engineering, […]
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First NASA One-Year Mars Mission Simulation Reaches 100 Days
The first crew to take part in a yearlong NASA Mars analog mission reached a milestone of 100 days inside the 1,700-square-foot habitat on October 3. The four person, volunteer crew entered the CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space center in Houston on June 25 to begin a 378-day […]
NASA Selects Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Contractors
NASA logo Credits: NASA NASA has selected seven companies to provide commercial data in support of the agency’s Earth science research. The Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program will acquire Earth observation data and related services from commercial sources for NASA. This fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple-award contract will be effective for a period of five years with […]
Jennifer L. Turner
Environmental Portrait of Jennifer L. Turner for Faces of NASA Project. NASA / James Blair “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 […]
65 Years Ago: NASA Begins Operations
On Oct. 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officially began operations. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act the previous July, creating NASA to lead America’s civilian space program in response to Soviet advances in space exploration. T. Keith Glennan and Hugh L. Dryden were sworn […]
Contracts and Acquisition Integrity Law Resources
Substantive Areas The following sites provide substantive information on matters of concern to the Contracts and Acquisition Integrity Law Practice Group: Searchable versions of the current Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) . NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook — NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook, NASA Procedures and Guidelines (NPG) […]
Clues to Psyche Asteroid’s Metallic Nature Found in SOFIA Data
When the asteroid Psyche has its first close-up with a NASA spacecraft, scientists hypothesize they will find a metal-rich asteroid. It could be part or all of the iron-rich interior of a planetesimal, an early planetary building block, that was stripped of its outer rocky shell as it repeatedly collided with other large bodies during […]
NESC Technical Bulletin 23-06:Considerations for Software Fault Prevention and Tolerance
The NESC has released a technical bulletin for the Software Engineering community. Mission or safety-critical spaceflight systems should be developed to both reduce the likelihood of software faults pre-flight and to detect/mitigate the effects of software errors should they occur in-flight. New data is available that categorizes software errors from significant historic spaceflight software incidents […]
Origin of Marshall Space Flight Center
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created on October 1, 1958, to perform civilian research related to space flight and aeronautics. President Eisenhower commissioned Dr. T. Keith Glennan, right, as the first administrator for NASA and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden as deputy administrator. To source
NASA’s Origins
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created on October 1, 1958, to perform civilian research related to space flight and aeronautics. President Eisenhower commissioned Dr. T. Keith Glennan, right, as the first administrator for NASA and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden as deputy administrator. NASA On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed […]
Know Python? Or have a DSLR Camera? The Eclipse Megamovie needs your help!
1 min read Know Python? Or have a DSLR Camera? The Eclipse Megamovie needs your help! A drawn silhouette of amateur photographers looking to the sky with telescope and DSLR camera on one of our mounts. Sonoma State University / Aurore Simmonet, CC 4.0 NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie project is back for the 2024 total solar eclipse—and is […]
NASA Seeks Feedback on Requirements for New Commercial Space Stations
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took this majestic image of the Earth at night highlighting the green and red hues of an Aurora. NASA NASA is asking American companies to provide input on the agency’s requirements for end-to-end services as part of the Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Development Program. In the future, the agency plans to transition […]
Brilliant Minds for Pure Blue Skies
Welcome, passionate innovators and bold visionaries, to an extraordinary quest to redefine the future of aviation, to bring forth a world where the skies are clear, and the flights are green. The challenge at hand is not just a call to reimagine aircraft but an invitation to unleash your creativity in scripting an environmentally-conscious success […]