These systems have been operated from laboratory and mobile ground based platforms and the newest direct detection wind lidar, the TWiLiTE molecular Doppler lidar, is designed for autonomous operation on the NASA WB57 high altitude research aircraft.Bruce Gentry...
thus, their growth. Though shapeless and disorganized, as we see them less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these galaxies will eventually evolve into more familiar morphologies, such as thespiral shape of the
While there are still challenges that need to be addressed for women in research, we have seen more women in leadership positions across the industry. We have had two women directors at the National Science Foundation and our first woman Deputy Administrator at NASA. This year, ...
Apollo 13 flight directors applaud the successful splashdown of the Command Module "Odyssey" after the spacecraft suffered an explosion that shut down almost every system necessary to sustain life onboard. NASA Apollo 13 was headed for the moon. On April 11, 1970, the spacecraft lifted off....
“While flying over Malibu, California, Northrop Aircraft test pilot Rex Hardy, Jr. and two members of his aircrew, sighted four aluminum-colored circular-shaped objects traveling in a definite flight pattern,” thereport said. “The objects were huge, as big as a B-36 bomber it was ...
LCROSS sports three cameras, said Rusty Hunt, one of the mission's flight directors, to closely watch the debris from when the 5,200-pound, 41-foot Centaur rocket hits the moon. NASA expects a plume 6.2 miles high, and LCROSS will send a real-time stream of observational data to the...