2 min read NASA Research Challenge Selects Two New Student-Led Teams Getty Images NASA has selected two new university student teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges meant to transform the skies above our communities. The awards were made through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC) , which provides students with opportunities to contribute to NASA’s […]
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A turtle moves through a waterway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 4, 2017. To source
3 min read Government and Industry Collaboration Leads to First Air Taxi Delivery Joby Aviation’s electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is pictured at Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California. Joby announced the delivery of this aircraft to their customer, the U.S. Air Force AFWERX Agility Prime program, on Sept. 25. NASA has […]
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. To source
After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s […]
NASA will host a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 26, to discuss the upcoming annular solar eclipse. The annular eclipse will cross the U.S. from Oregon to Texas on Saturday, Oct. 14, with a partial solar eclipse visible throughout the contiguous U.S. To source
1 min read Flight Dynamics Research Facility Construction Images Construction of NASA’s first major wind tunnel in more than 40 years is well underway. Construction of NASA’s first major wind tunnel in more than 40 years is well underway. The new wind tunnel, called the Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF), will provide researchers with a […]
2 min read NASA Glenn Earns R&D 100 Award R&D Magazine and a panel of experts have chosen NASA’s Glenn Research Center’s GRX-810: A 3D Printable Alloy Designed for Extreme Environments as one of the 100 most technologically significant new products of the past year to receive the prestigious 2023 R&D 100 Award. NASA Alloy […]
Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli captured this image of New Zealand, dotted by white clouds, on Sept. 12, 2023, as the International Space Station orbited 230 miles above the island nation. To source
The Artemis II crew and teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program successfully completed on Sept. 20, the first in a series of integrated ground system tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the upcoming mission around the Moon. To source
“The stars aligned – I was working at Johnson Space Center in Houston about six months later. That’s how I got here, in a roundabout way.” — Isidro Reyna, Strategic Communications Manager, Strategic Integration and Management Division, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters To source
The public is invited to a watch party at NASA’s Goddard Visitor Center, Greenbelt, Maryland to celebrate the first U.S. mission, OSIRIS-REx, to collect a sample from an asteroid and deliver it to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. To source