NASA: November 2024

National Aeronautics and Space Administrion

Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also has been adapted for many nonaerospace uses by the private sector. NASA remains a leading force in scientific research and in stimulating public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as science and technology in general. Perhaps more importantly, our exploration of space has taught us to view Earth, ourselves, and the universe in a new way. While the tremendous technical and scientific accomplishments of NASA demonstrate vividly that humans can achieve previously inconceivable feats, we also are humbled by the realization that Earth is just a tiny "blue marble" in the cosmos. Check out our "Thinking About NASA History" folder online as an introduction to how history can help you.

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Voyager 2

"When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists’ first — and, so far, only — close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/mining-old-data-from-nasas-voyager-2-solves-several-uranus-mysteries/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Saturday, November 9, 2024

FRB

"Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts—extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light—have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers on a chase to uncover their origins."

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/mighty-radio-bursts-linked-to-massive-galaxies?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Friday, November 8, 2024

Astronaut taken to hospital

"NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for an undisclosed medical issue after returning from a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton, the space agency said Friday."

https://ksltv.com/701402/nasa-astronaut-remains-in-the-hospital-after-returning-from-space/