Month: August 2015
Program aims to support families, reduce risks
Parenting, under the best circumstances is a tough job. Raising a family while serving in the…
Schriever focuses on teen driver safety
Driving can be dangerous, especially for teens, prompting Schriever Air Force Base to stress driving safety…
Testing on Deck
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated August 19 as National Aviation Day in honor of…
NASA Begins to Build Satellite Mission to Improve Hurricane Forecasting
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina formed in the Atlantic, construction of NASA’s next-generation hurricane-observing satellite mission…
NASA Ames Celebrates Employee’s 90th Birthday, Rich Aviation History
Founded in 1939 as the second laboratory for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), what…
Rosetta thermal louvres
These might resemble venetian window blinds, but they are actually a key technology enabling ESA’s Rosetta…
Rosetta thermal louvres
These might resemble venetian window blinds, but they are actually a key technology enabling ESA’s Rosetta…
Soyuz exams
From left: Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov, Soyuz spacecraft commander Sergei Volkov and ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen…
Andreas Mogensen
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Centre shortly before leaving to Baikonur, Kazakhstan,…