Top 10 NASA InventionsBy: Patrick J. Kiger & Marianne Spoon The spaceship isn't NASA's only great invention. Hemera/Thinkstock The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. government agency that runs the country's civilian space program, has accomplished some truly ...
Top 10 NASA InventionsBy: Patrick J. Kiger & Marianne Spoon The spaceship isn't NASA's only great invention. Hemera/Thinkstock The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. government agency that runs the country's civilian space program, has accomplished some truly ...
Valerie Thomas is a scientist who started to work as a data analyst at NASA in 1964. During her employment, she was in charge of a project involved with NASA’s image processing systems. She supervised the creation of Landsat, the first-ever satellite to send images directly from space...
10. We are using robots to explore Mars. On 27th November, 1971 the lander of Mars 2 crash-landed due to an on-board computer malfunction . Despite the crash this object still became the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars. Over the years, NASA have sent four robotic ...
Fred Weldon Leslie is an American scientist who flew on the NASA STS-73 Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist. Birthplace: Ancón, Panama Edward Sapir Dec. at 55 (1884-1939) Edward Sapir (; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is ...
10. Steam engine In 1781, James Watt patented a steam engine capable of continuous rotary motion that he invented between 1763 and 1775. Soon enough, his engine became the driving force in the mining industry, factories, ships, trains, and the Industrial Revolution as a whole. Throughout the...
On May 30, 2020, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launched two NASA astronauts into Earth’s orbit toward the International Space Station. This day marked the first launch of U.S. astronauts in nearly 10 years and the first-ever by a commercial aerospace company, SpaceX, founded b...
In 2024, Techstars founders continued to do what they do best — break barriers and redefine what's possible. Check out our favorite founder moments of the year: 10. James Merrill, founder of StokedPlastics (Techstars 2024), appeared on Guy Raz's "How I Built This" podcast. 9. In Apr...
John Mace Grunsfeld (born October 10, 1958) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and has served as NASA Chief Scientist. His academic background includes research in high energy astrophysics, cosmic ray physics...
The HoloGlobe app lets students “hold” NASA and NOAA visualizations of the earth in the palm of their hands. (Educators may also check out Google SkyMap, a hand-held planetarium that can be used to identify stars, planets, nebulae and more.) Metaverse Recommended for ages 13 and older,...