(Today, NASA recognizes a diverse workforce and uses terms such as "humans" instead.) Much of the agency's research, employees and programs were inherited from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics which was formed in 1915 in the midst of the First World War, during a need to ...
Today in Apple history: Mac sends first email from space By Luke Dormehl • 8:16 am, August 28, 2024 News This space shuttle crew sent the world's first email from space. Photo: NASA August 28, 1991: Astronauts send the first email from space using a Macintosh Portable and Apple...
A NASA investigation that concluded Tuesday found 80 recommended changes for Boeing to make to its spacecraft, after the aerospace company's December spaceflight test failed due to multiple anomalies. "Today we're turning the page from the investigation phase from [the flight test] into hard...
TheJames Webb Space Telescopehas been in space for nearly 10 months and, despite a micrometeroid issue and a glitch, the telescope's performance is surpassing expectations, mission officials said in anew updatetoday (Oct. 20). That's good news for astronomers given the impressive observations c...
“ST1 was a massive undertaking,” Heather Bottom, systems engineer for the Mars 2020 mission, said in astatement. “It was our first chance to exercise the flight software we will fly on 2020 with the actual spacecraft components that will be heading to Mars — and make sure they not on...
"The asteroids that we have in our solar system today, they're left over from this earliest stage of solar system history," said University of Arizona Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta. "We're literally looking at geologic materials that formed before the Earth even existed. ...
1969. Much like the Apollo and space shuttle programs, the ARPANET program was a historic success but was far too costly to run long-term and was decommissioned. But ARPANET paved the way for the commercialization of the internet, which Korus noted has today created trillions of dollars in ...
Today, of course, the shuttle has a place to go: the International Space Station. With a pedigree that can be traced back to the same grand vision that inspired the space shuttle, the International Space Station is but a humble thing compared to some of the space stations, bases, and col...
Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute were able to use data from the retiredStratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a joint project between NASA scientists and the German Space Agency at DLR, to discover the water molecules, according to anews releaseand sc...
"In a post-September 11 world, did my parents think I was crazy? Yes, I'm pretty sure they did," she said, but added that her family then gave her their full support. "It's because of that that I'm here today, and I think everyone feels similarly, but—that being said—there ...