Jonathan Martin wants you to forget the only thing you remember about him
A target of bullying in the 2013 Miami Dolphins locker room, he is now making his way in business and finance.
The Sublime Beauty That Airplanes Leave Behind
Contrails conjure a sense of something overwhelming and ineffable, as terrifying as it is beautiful.
A First-Timer’s Guide to Skiing in Japan
Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to go, stay and eat.
New Season of ‘The White Lotus’ Brings a Tourism Boom in Thailand
Crowds of visitors descended on Maui and Sicily after the HBO show’s first two seasons. Is the tropical resort island of Koh Samui ready for Season 3?
NASA Fire Safety Test Took on Reduced Gravity
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A still image of a video that shows a plastic rod and cotton-fiberglass fabric being burned during a ground test of the Lunar-g Combustion Investigation (LUCI) experiment. Credit: Voyager Technologies An experiment studying how solid materials catch fire and burn in the Moon’s gravity […]
Recognizing Employee Excellence
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Glenn Employees Earn Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers Two NASA Glenn Research Center employees were among 19 agency researchers recognized as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown Credit: NASA Lyndsey McMillon-Brown was […]
NASA Successfully Joins Sunshade to Roman Observatory’s ‘Exoskeleton’
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover — a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light from entering the telescope — to the outer barrel assembly, another structure designed to shield the telescope from stray light in addition to keeping it at a stable temperature. Technicians […]
NASA Telescopes Deliver Stellar Bouquet in Time for Valentine’s Day
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL-CalTech/SST; Optical: NASA/STScI/HST; Radio: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt, N. Wolk, K. Arcand A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30 Doradus. By combining X-ray data from […]
Why Does the Moon Look Larger at the Horizon? We Asked a NASA Scientist: Episode 50
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) We’ve been talking about this for 2,000 years. Aristotle mentions it. And in our own time, scientists are designing experiments to figure out exactly what’s going on. But there’s no consensus yet. Here’s what we do know. The atmosphere isn’t magnifying the Moon. If […]
15 Years Ago: STS-130 Delivers Tranquility and Cupola to Space Station
On Feb. 8, 2010, space shuttle Endeavour began its 24th trip into space, on the 20A assembly mission to the International Space Station, the 32nd shuttle flight to the orbiting lab. The STS-130 crew included Commander George Zamka, Pilot Terry Virts, and Mission Specialists Kathryn Hire, Stephen Robinson, Nicholas Patrick, and Robert Behnken. During the […]