On Thursday, June 19, NASA will host a televised update on recent progress and upcoming milestones…
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Jon Zawislak, HS3 Mission Scientist
In addition to his work on HS3, Jon is examining the necessary and sufficient conditions for…
Decontamination System to Up Research on Space Station
The Microgravity Science Glovebox gets an upgrade to enable new research capabilities and safer testing aboard…
NASA Turns World Cup into Lesson in Aerodynamics
Although NASA is not in the business of designing or testing balls, the World Cup tournament…
NASA ER-2 Aircraft Continues Earth Ecosystem Research
Second year of HyspIRI airborne campaign on high-altitude ER-2 is gathering data about the health of…
Scott Braun, HS3 Principal Investigator at the HS3 Science Meeting
Dr. Scott Braun leads a diverse team that uses unmanned aircraft to understand better the meteorological…
NASA, Virgin Galactic Announce Payloads for SpaceShipTwo Flight
NASA has selected 12 technology experiments to fly on the first commercial research flight on Virgin…
NASA Begins Testing of New Spectrograph on Agency’s Airborne Observatory
Astronomers are eagerly waiting to begin use of a new instrument to study celestial objects: a…
Astronomers Confounded By Massive Rocky World
Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is…
A First for NASA’s IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material
NASA's newest solar observatory, IRIS, caught its first coronal mass ejection in extraordinary detail, in better…