NASA invites the public and the media to watch its first asteroid sample return mission begin a two-year cruise home at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, May 10, on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.
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NASA Awards Earth Science Data and Information System Contract
NASA has awarded the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Evolution and Development (EED)-3 contract to Raytheon Company of Riverdale, Maryland.
Read MoreTianhe Booster to Reenter This Weekend
One of the largest spacecraft to plunge from orbit in recent decades is likely coming down on May 8th. The post Tianhe Booster to Reenter This Weekend appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreS&T Writers Win Two Science Journalism Awards
This year’s solar physics communication prizes recognize two pieces from Sky & Telescope magazine. The post S&T Writers Win Two Science Journalism Awards appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreHey Ricky: It’s Teacher Appreciation Week!
Astronaut and teacher Ricky Arnold is shown on his first spacewalk as a crewmember on STS-119.
Read MoreRadiation resistance is baked into the Perseverance Mars rover. Here’s why that’s important.
Think about the number of times your computer on Earth has crashed. Now imagine how challenging that would be during a rover mission on Mars. From time to time, the Curiosity rover has gone into “safe mode” to deal with glitches and software problems since it landed on Mars in August 2012. But each time, the mission has recovered to continue its epic climb up a Martian mountain in search of habitable environments. All those “lessons learned” from safe mode incidents are now embedded into the new Perseverance rover, the…
Read MoreWelcome to Mars! Bill Nye and Robert Zubrin hail new Red Planet visitors.
Two prominent space advocacy groups are cheering the new generation of Mars explorers. While NASA’s newly landed Perseverance rover is getting the lion’s share of coverage in the United States, both the United Arab Emirates and China also entered Mars orbit successfully in February. The Planetary Society’s CEO Bill Nye expressed optimism that China’s Tianwen-1 mission might open up opportunities for collaboration between the country and the United States, which have had tricky international relations for decades over matters ranging from intellectual property to security concerns and human rights. Notably,…
Read MoreIs there a pattern to the universe?
Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of How to Die in Space. For decades, cosmologists have wondered if the large-scale structure of the universe is a fractal — that is, if it looks the same no matter how large the scale. After completing massive surveys of galaxies, scientists finally have an answer: No, but kind of, in a way. In the early 20th century, astronomers — beginning with Edwin Hubble and his discovery…
Read MoreNASA Names New Chief of Staff
NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson announced Wednesday that Susie Perez Quinn will serve as the agency’s chief of staff.
Read MoreMedia Invited to Virtual Briefing as NASA’s Webb Prepares for Launch
Media will have the opportunity to see the iconic golden mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope open for the last time on Earth during a virtual briefing Tuesday, May 11, at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT).
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