Category: NASA
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NASA Supports Small Business Research to Power Future Exploration
WASHINGTON—NASA has selected hundreds of small businesses and dozens of research institutions to develop technology to help drive the future of space exploration, ranging from novel sensors and electronics to […]
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NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson
WASHINGTON ― NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA. […]
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SpaceX crew docks after historic commercial transportation launch with NASA
HAWTHORNE, CA — Space Exploration Technologies Corp., trading as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk. Musk, also the CEO of Tesla, set a […]
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NASA Mourns the Passing of ‘Hidden Figure’ Katherine Johnson
HAMPTON, VA (BDPA Hampton Roads) — NASA announced today one of America’s beloved “Human Computers,” Katherine Johnson, has died at the age of 101. Ms. Johnson was a pioneering Hampton […]
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STEM ‘Cheerleader’ finalists selected for NASA’s OPSPARC Challenge
WASHINGTON—Three students from Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C. have been selected as one of eight national high school Glog selection finalists in the NASA Goddard OPSARC Challenge […]
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NOAA retires storms named Harvey, Irma, Maria and Nate
WASHINGTON — Due to the extensive damage caused in the United States and Caribbean last year, the World Meteorological Organization’s Region IV Hurricane Committee has officially retired these names. Storm names […]
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NASA’s New Computational Research Facility named after Hidden Figures’ “Human Computer”
HAMPTON, VA–When she heard that NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, would name its newest building after her, Katherine Johnson responded the only way she could – with surprise. […]
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More Hidden Figures Unveiled at CES
LAS VEGAS, NV—BDPA Members and BDPA Student Members attended a CES SuperSession during #CES2017 co-hosted by IBM and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). “The Power of Hidden Figures: Diversity in […]
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NASA readies next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) for NOAA
Significant weather forecasting improvements with new Technical innovations on board CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—The new generation GOES-R satellites will carry significant improvements and technology innovation on board. GOES-R will be able to deliver a […]
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SPECIAL REPORT: Big Data vs. Big Storms
A PTTV Special Report: WINTER STORM JONAS WASHINGTON, D.C.—Big Data, Predictive Analytics, and supercomputer weather models, accurately predict and warn millions of Americans of a major winter storm yet formed; […]