The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center and Fayetteville State University will collaborate on advanced materials research relevant to Earth and Space science under a Space Act Agreement. They will research materials processing, characterization and application, failure analysis, and associated technologies.
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Movie review: ‘Hidden Figures:’ Inspiring true story perfect for the family
Parents need to know that “Hidden Figures” is based on the inspiring true story of three brilliant African-American women who worked at NASA in the 1950s and ’60s as “human computers” – making calculations and contributions that helped launch the manned spaceflight program. Dorothy Vaughn , Mary Jackson , and Katherine Johnson were engineers and computers at NASA at a time when both women and African Americans were still widely discriminated against, particularly in segregationist Virginia, where NASA’s Langley Research Center is based.
Movie review: ‘Hidden Figures:’ Inspiring true story perfect for the family
Parents need to know that “Hidden Figures” is based on the inspiring true story of three brilliant African-American women who worked at NASA in the 1950s and ’60s as “human computers” – making calculations and contributions that helped launch the manned spaceflight program. Dorothy Vaughn , Mary Jackson , and Katherine Johnson were engineers and computers at NASA at a time when both women and African Americans were still widely discriminated against, particularly in segregationist Virginia, where NASA’s Langley Research Center is based.
Movie review: ‘Hidden Figures’ is Grade-A Hollywood crowd-pleaser in the best way
A Grade-A Hollywood crowd-pleaser that happily celebrates its shameless moments, “Hidden Figures” can be teased, but it can’t be ignored. The film may not be restrained, but stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae are powerfully effective and its little-known true story is so flabbergasting that resistance is all but futile.
Movie review: ‘Hidden Figures’ is Grade-A Hollywood crowd-pleaser in the best way
A Grade-A Hollywood crowd-pleaser that happily celebrates its shameless moments, “Hidden Figures” can be teased, but it can’t be ignored. The film may not be restrained, but stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae are powerfully effective and its little-known true story is so flabbergasting that resistance is all but futile.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captures close up images of Saturn’s moon Pandora2 min ago
Dec 23: National Aeronautics and Space Administration ‘ Cassini spacecraft has captured stunning images of Santurn’s moon ‘Pandora’. On December 18, 2016, Cassini captured it during its closet-ever fly of Pandora.
How Do We Colonize Saturn’s Moons?
Welcome back to our series on Colonizing the Solar System! Today, we take a look at the largest of Saturn’s Moons – Titan, Rhea, Iapetus, Dione, Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas. From the 17th century onward, astronomers made some profound discoveries around the planet Saturn, which they believed was the most distant planet of the Solar System at the time.
Festive nebulae light up Milky Way Galaxy satellite
This glowing nebula, named NGC 248, is located within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and about 200 000 light-years from Earth. The nebula was observed with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in Sept.
VLA, ALMA team up to give first look at birthplaces of most current stars
Radio/Optical combination images of distant galaxies as seen with NSF’s Very Large Array and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Their distances from Earth are indicated in the top set of images.
‘Passengers’ and the real-life science of deep space travel
From “Aliens” to “Interstellar,” Hollywood has long used suspended animation to overcome the difficulties of deep space travel, but the once-fanciful sci-fi staple is becoming scientific fact. The theory is that a hibernating crew could stay alive over vast cosmic distances, requiring little food, hydration or living space, potentially slashing the costs of interstellar missions and eradicating the boredom of space travel.
Ranking Hollywood’s holiday offerings
Seven big movies open between now and Christmas Day. What to see? Our critics rank them in order – from one powerful must-see Oscar contender to a few that will appeal mostly to cult or kid audiences, with two terrific biopics in between.
NASA orbiter detects infant versions of Martian ‘spiders’
Washington, Dec 21 : Using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data, researchers have detected cumulative growth of erosion-carved troughs that may be infant versions of larger features known as Martian “spiders,” which are radially patterned channels found only in the south polar region of the Red Planet. [NK US] The troughs are resulting from the same thawing-carbon-dioxide process believed to form the spider-like features, the researchers said.
Column: John Glenn inspired generations of astronauts
TWO YEARS before we were born and three decades before we each had the chance to leave our planet in a spaceship, our parents and 100 million other people heard the news: A 40-year-old Marine Corps lieutenant colonel named John Glenn had become the first American to orbit Earth. To this day, Glenn’s journey remains as awe-inspiring as it was audacious.
Scientists Decipher Fact From Fantasy in Movie ‘Passengers’
In the new Sci-Fi film Passengers, by Sony Pictures Entertainment, people on Earth are on a 120-year trip to colonize a new planet. But something goes wrong on their way there.
Solstice sun to reach southernmost point
The December solstice takes place when the sun reaches its southernmost point for the year. In 2016, it happens at 10:44 UTC on December 21. That means that, here in North America, the solstice falls in the early morning hours on December 21 .
Solstice sun to reach southernmost point
The December solstice takes place when the sun reaches its southernmost point for the year. In 2016, it happens at 10:44 UTC on December 21. That means that, here in North America, the solstice falls in the early morning hours on December 21 .
Snow, lit by full moon, from space
An Arctic air mass brought snow to the northern U.S. last week. A lake-effect snow followed an earlier snow accumulation.
Snow, lit by full moon, from space
An Arctic air mass brought snow to the northern U.S. last week. A lake-effect snow followed an earlier snow accumulation.
Pan-STARRS Releases Largest Digital Sky Survey to the World
The Pan-STARRS project at the University of Hawai’i Institute for Astronomy is publicly releasing the world’s largest digital sky survey today from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is among the partners who contributed to the Pan-STARRS1 Surveys.
Up, Up And Away: For $75K, This (Beautiful) Balloon Will Take You Into Space
By 2018, World View may be offering mere mortals the chance to get a life-changing view of the Earth from space. Not many people have had this privilege.
How this brilliant mathematician made John Glenn a national hero
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, taking “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” But he got there thanks to a woman, Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who calculated Apollo 11’s trajectory to the moon and back.
NASA plans to search for ‘Star Wars’ planets
Some of the planets discovered around stars in our own galaxy may be very similar to the ‘Star Wars’ exoplanets like arid Tatooine, watery Scarif and even frozen Hoth, according to NASA scientists. Sifting through data on the more than 3,400 confirmed alien worlds, scientists applied sophisticated computer modelling techniques to tease out the colours, light, sunrise and sunsets we might encounter if we could pay them a visit.
Roger Simon: Fame is brief; the candle flickers
The seven STS-95 crew members pose for their traditional in-flight crew portrait in this 1998 NASA photo.
Roger Simon: Fame is brief; the candle flickers
The seven STS-95 crew members pose for their traditional in-flight crew portrait in this 1998 NASA photo.
New Kennedy Space Center exhibit asks: What is a hero?
Painted on glass, this artwork represents the Mercury 7 astronauts, NASA’s first class of astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton.
Mourners remember life, career of US astronaut John Glenn
Mourners marked a final day of remembrances for groundbreaking astronaut John Glenn on Saturday , as the body of the first American to orbit Earth set out for a memorial service expected to be packed to capacity. The casket of John Glenn is carried out of the Ohio Statehouse by Marines during his funeral procession on Dec 17, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio.
Looking back at John Glenn’s U.S. stamp legacy
The 4A Project Mercury commemorative honored John Glenn’s successful space flight when it was issued Feb. 20, 1962, the same day that Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. The 1988 15A Settling of Ohio postal card was issued during John Glenn’s service as the state’s U.S. senator.
Watch: NASA’s 3D simulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide will scare you
Using observations from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, scientists have developed a new model of carbon behavior in our atmosphere from Sept. 1, 2014, to Aug. 31, 2015.
A Sept. 1966 edition of LIFE Magazine bearing the likeness of John…
A Sept. 1966 edition of LIFE Magazine bearing the likeness of John Glenn rests in a showcase at the John & Annie Glenn Museum, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in New Concord, Ohio.
All-American John Glenn: Astronaut, fighter pilot, senator
He was the first American to orbit the Earth, a war hero fighter pilot, a record-setting test pilot, a longtime senator, a presidential candidate and a man who defied age and gravity to go back into space at 77. But those were just his accomplishments. What made John Glenn was more his persona: He was a combat veteran with boy next door looks, a strong marriage and nerves of steel.
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1966 edition of LIFE Magazine bearing the likeness of John Glenn rests in a showcase at the John & Annie Glenn Museum, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in New Concord, Ohio. Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth, pilot… .
Cargo ship readied for launch to space station
This file photo shows an H-II rocket on the pad at Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center. An H-IIB rocket carrying the Japanese HTV-6 cargo ship loaded with nearly four tons of supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station is scheduled for launch Friday morning U.S. time.
Is the end of the world? One conspiracy theorists thinks so
Conspiracy theorist David Meade is pitching the idea that Planet X, also known as Nibiru, will collide with Earth in October, bringing about the apocalypse. There’s no proof that the planet even exists and NASA has shot down the theory before.