Новости за 16.02.2022

NASA has awarded a sole source contract to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington to conduct studies and evaluations in support of the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency’s “You’ve Got Perseverance!” campaign was honored with a message from the Red Planet and a chat with the rover team at JPL.

Students from Colorado will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Wednesday he appointed new members to the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), which provides leadership counsel and advice on a variety of important and complex agency programs and topics.

The Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction (SoFIE) project launching to the International Space Station could light the way to understanding fire in space and how to put it out.

One of the most exciting findings in planetary science in recent years is the discovery of interstellar objects passing through our solar system. So far, astronomers have confirmed only two of these interlopers from other star systems — 1I/'Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2018 — but many, many more are thought to exist.

A top view shows the wing loading test configuration of a F/A-18E from the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland.

The master plan that lays out infrastructure aims for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center over the next two decades received approval from the agency’s Office of Strategic Infrastructure, following a presentation on Feb. 1.