Category Archives: Nghiên cứu ứng dụng

Who is NASA Astronaut Bob Behnken?

NASA astronaut Bob Behnken is a native of Missouri and a veteran of two space shuttle flights. Behnken flew STS-123 in March 2008 and STS-130 in February 2010, logging more than 708 hours in space, and more than 37 hours during six spacewalks. Behnken is currently serving as Joint Operations Commander on the first crewed […]

Vice President Pence Tours NASA’s Historic Mission Control in Houston

As part of his visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center on June 7, to welcome America’s newest astronaut candidates, Vice President Mike Pence took a tour of the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center and was briefed on current human spaceflight operations. The Vice President also joined Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot and Johnson Center […]

NASA 2017 Women's History Month Profile – Steffi Valkov, AFRC

Steffi Valkov is a Flight Operations Engineer at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. Steffi’s current project, UAS Integration in the NAS, has her fulfilling multiple roles which include leading flight operations working groups, developing flight test scenarios, and control room duties.

NASA 2017 Women’s History Month Profile – Steffi Valkov, AFRC

Steffi Valkov is a Flight Operations Engineer at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. Steffi’s current project, UAS Integration in the NAS, has her fulfilling multiple roles which include leading flight operations working groups, developing flight test scenarios, and control room duties.

National Native American Heritage Month – Karen Moore's NASA Intern Story

Karen Moore shares her story on how her 2018 internship at NASA’s Langley Research Center allowed her to support the Minority University Research and Education Project for American Indian and Alaskan Native STEM Engagement (MAIANSE). The NASA Office of Education’s MAIANSE initiative supports tribal colleges or universities with career development and internship opportunities. Learn more […]

National Native American Heritage Month – Karen Moore’s NASA Intern Story

Karen Moore shares her story on how her 2018 internship at NASA’s Langley Research Center allowed her to support the Minority University Research and Education Project for American Indian and Alaskan Native STEM Engagement (MAIANSE). The NASA Office of Education’s MAIANSE initiative supports tribal colleges or universities with career development and internship opportunities. Learn more […]

Exp. 34/35 Launches to the International Space Station

The Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 7:12 a.m. EST on Dec. 19. .

End of Greenland Glacier Breaks Away

On August 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 97 square miles (251 square kilometers) in size, broke off the Petermann Glacier, along the northwestern coast of Greenland. The glacier lost about one-quarter of its 70-kilometer (40-mile) long floating ice shelf, the Northern Hemisphere’s largest. It’s not unusual for large icebergs to calve off […]

NASA Announces Astronaut Crews for First Commercial Vehicle Flights

NASA announces the men and women who will be on board the first flights of the new spaceships built by Boeing and SpaceX when Americans are once again launched into space from the USA. News release: https://go.nasa.gov/2KoGhVS The nine astronauts targeted to make the first flights on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon […]

NASA Astronauts Ring the Opening Bell for Nasdaq

A historic bell ringing, 250 miles above Earth. Today we recognize the achievements of our #LaunchAmerica mission with NASA Astronauts Chris Cassidy, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley who will ring the captain’s bell on the space station for Nasdaq’s opening bell. This marks the first time NASA will ring the opening bell for Nasdaq.