Suzanne Gillen Named NASA Associate Administrator for Legislative Affairs
Suzanne Gillen has been named NASA’s associate administrator for the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs.
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NASA Pays Tribute to Fallen Heroes
NASA Pays Tribute to Fallen Heroes
NASA will honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, during the agency’s annual Day of Remembrance Thursday, Feb. 7.
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Fiery Research Work and CubeSats Deployed Today
Fiery Research Work and CubeSats Deployed Today
The Expedition 58 crew set up a variety of combustion research hardware today to look at what happens to high temperatures, fuels and flames in space. The International Space Station also deployed the first set of CubeSats this year.
The Two-Phase Flow Experiment, sponsored by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, investigates the heat transfer caused by boiling liquids in space. Flight Engineer Anne McClain set up a specialized microscope to study the phenomena inside Japan’s Kibo lab module today. Results may inform future designs of high-performance thermal management and cooling systems on Earth and in space.
Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques opened the Combustion Integrated Rack inside the U.S. Destiny lab module again today for more maintenance work. The Canadian astronaut replaced a control unit and a radiometer inside the fuel and flame research device.
The duo also monitored and photographed several CubeSats deployed into Earth orbit outside Kibo’s airlock today. The CubeSats are inexpensive tiny research satellites that will explore Earth’s ionosphere and study space communication techniques.
Commander Oleg Kononenko, the four-time space station resident from Roscosmos, started Thursday photographing the interior portion of the orbital lab’s Russian segment. The veteran cosmonaut then moved onto life support maintenance and explored ways students and educators can collaborate with space crews.
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Hubble Accidentally Discovers a New Galaxy
Hubble Accidentally Discovers a New Galaxy
Despite the vastness of space, objects tend to get in front of each other.
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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Lucy Mission
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Lucy Mission
NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC (ULS) of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for the agency’s first-ever mission to explore Trojan asteroids.
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