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NASA Marshall Team Supports Safe Travels for Space Station Science

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By Jessica Barnett  During the International Space Station’s more than 25 years of operation, there have been more than 3,000 experiments conducted aboard the microgravity laboratory, and making sure scientific samples are kept safe through launch, spaceflight, experimentation, and the…
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Hubble Captures a Bright Spiral in the Queen’s Hair

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the jewel-bright spiral galaxy NGC 4689, which lies 54 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. This constellation has the distinction of being the only one of the 88 constellations officially…
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Rae Ann Meyer Named Deputy Director of NASA Marshall

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Rae Ann Meyer has been selected as deputy director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective June 2. In this role, Meyer will assist in leading Marshall’s nearly 7,000 on-site and near-site civil service and contractor employees…
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NASA has awarded the Consolidated Agency Technology Transfer Services contract to Summit Technologies & Solutions, Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia, to provide support for the agency’s Technology Transfer Program. The performance-based firm-fixed price contract has a potential mission services value of…
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A thermal protection material for the Artemis Generation The 3-Dimensional Multifunctional Ablative Thermal Protection System (3D-MAT) is a thermal protection material developed as a critical component of Orion, NASA’s newest spacecraft built for human deep space missions. It is able…
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NEAR ShoemakerNSSDCA/COSPAR ID: 1996-008ADescriptionThe Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed in honor of Gene Shoemaker, was designed to study the near Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year. The mission was the first-ever to orbit an asteroid and to touch down on the surface of an asteroid. The primary scientific objectives of NEAR were to return data on the bulk properties, composition, mineralogy, morphology, internal mass distribution and magnetic field of Eros. Secondary objectives include studies of regolith properties, interactions with the solar wind, possible current activity as indicated by dust or gas, and the asteroid spin state. This data will be used to help understand the characteristics of asteroids in general, their relationship to meteorites and comets, and the conditions in the early solar system. To accomplish these goals, the spacecraft is equipped with an X-ray/gamma ray spectrometer, a near infrared imaging spectrograph, a multi-spectral camera fitted with a CCD imaging detector, a laser rangefinder, and a magnetometer. A radio science experiment was also performed using the NEAR tracking system to estimate the gravity field of the asteroid. The total mass of the instruments is 56 kg, and they require 81 W power.

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The ultimate goal of the mission was to study the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros from orbit for approximately one year. Eros is an S-class asteroid approximately 13 x 13 x 33 km in size, the second largest near-Earth asteroid. Initially the orbit was circular with a radius of 200 km. The radius of the orbit was brought down in stages to a 50 x 50 km orbit on 30 April 2000 and decreased to 35 x 35 km on 14 July 2000. The orbit was raised over succeeding months to a 200 x 200 km orbit and then slowly decreased and altered to a 35 x 35 km retrograde orbit on 13 December 2000. The mission ended with a touchdown in the "saddle" region of Eros on 12 February 2001.
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2014
Mike Werner
AIAA 2014 Space Science AwardFor outstanding science producing over 2,000 papers, 50,000+ hours of observation, and significant findings such as the first telescope to directly detect light from extrasolar planets.

2013
Dariush Divsalar
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell MedalFor fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of channel codes that transformed deep space and other forms of wireless communications.

2013
Douglas C. Hofmann
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and EngineersFor his innovative research in metal-matrix composites for future NASA missions.

2013
Dawn Flight Team
2013 NASA Systems Engineering Excellence Award (Program and Project Category)For completing the design, build, test and validation of the Dawn operations system and successfully utilizing that system to operate the spacecraft with its solar electric ion propulsion system to accomplish the ambitious scientific goals of the Dawn mission at Vesta.

2013
Europa Habitability Mission Study Systems Engineering Team
2013 NASA Systems Engineering Excellence Award (Techniques and Methodologies Category)For developing infrastructure to support model-based engineering for space flight and applying those tools to build models of essential aspects of a proposed mission and project to explore Europa, including detailed models of three distinct architectural concepts for the EHM Flight System.

2013
Bethany Ehlmann
National Geographic Emerging ExplorerExplorers are recognized for being "uniquely gifted and inspiring young adventurers, scientists, photographers, and storytellers - explorers who are already making a difference early in their careers."

2013
Sarath Gunapala
IEEE Photonics Society Aron Kressel AwardFor pioneering contributions to the development of quantum structures based infrared detectors and imaging focal plane arrays.

2013
Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) Team
National Air and Space Museum Current Trophy for Current AchievementThe National Air and Space Museum presents this trophy annually to recognize both past and present achievements involving the management or execution of a scientific or technological project, a distinguished career of service in air and space technology, or a significant contribution in chronicling the history of air and space technology.

2012
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This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft headed to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft launched in October 2023 and will arrive at its destination in 2029.
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The spacecraft already is beyond the distance of Mars and is using ion propulsion to accelerate toward a metal-rich asteroid, where it will orbit and collect science data.
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft passed its six-month checkup with a clean bill of health, and there’s no holding back now. Navigators are firing its futuristic-looking electric thrusters, which emit a blue glow, nearly nonstop as the orbiter zips farther into deep space.
The spacecraft launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on Oct. 13, 2023. After leaving our atmosphere, Psyche made the most of its rocket boost and coasted beyond the orbit of Mars.
For the next year, the spacecraft will be in what mission planners call “full cruise” mode, when its electric thrusters take over and propel the orbiter toward the asteroid belt. The thrusters work by expelling charged atoms, or ions, of xenon, emitting a brilliant blue glow that trails behind the spacecraft.
They are part of Psyche’s incredibly efficient solar electric propulsion system, which is powered by sunlight.
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Also for exceptional service to the IEEE as a Guest Editor in organizing and publishing a special issue of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine on Mars Exploration Rovers, June 2006.

2007
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu

Institution of Engineering and Technology Achievement Medal - Sir Monty Finniston Award for an outstanding technical contribution to an engineering projectMars Exploration Rovers extended mission operations and engineering.

2007
Edward Tunstel

NASA Equal Employment Opportunity MedalRobotics engineering in research and flight, and consistent support of Equal Opportunity Programs

2006
Dr. Olga Kalashnikova
Zeldovich Medal The Zeldovich Medals are conferred jointly by COSPAR and the Russian Academy of Sciences to young scientists (under 36 years old) for excellence and achievements. They honor the memory of the distinguished astrophysicist Academician Yakov B. Zeldovich. These awards consist of a medal and a certificate. Awards are given once every two years.

2006
Mark Maimone, Larry Matthies, et al.

ASPRS John I Davidson Award for Practical PapersInitial Results of Rover Localization and Topographic Mapping for the 2003 MER Mission

2006
Mars Exploration Rover Team
National Air and Space Museum Current Trophy for Current AchievementThe National Air and Space Museum presents this trophy annually to recognize both past and present achievements involving the management or execution of a scientific or technological project, a distinguished career of service in air and space technology, or a significant contribution in chronicling the history of air and space technology.

2006
COBE Team

Gruber Cosmology Prize WinnersThe 2006 Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation is proudly presented to Dr. John Mather and the COBE team for their ground-breaking studies of the spectrum and spatial structure of the relic radiation from the Big Bang.

2006
Issa Nesnas, et al.
Center Best One NASA Peer AwardCLARAty: Coupled Layer Architecture For Robotic Autonomy

2006
Guillermo Rodriguez

NASA Exceptional Service MedalControl and Modelling Using Spatial Operators for Multibody Dynamics

2006
Dr. Alfonso Saiz-Lopez
James R. Holton Junior Scientist AwardDr. Alfonso Saiz-Lopez has been awarded the fourth James A. Holton Junior Scientist Award of the AGU Atmospheric Sciences Section.
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ESA/DLR/FU-BerlinSounds of MarsGrab your headset, turn up the volume and listen for the subtle differences between the sounds on Earth versus how they would sound on the Red Planet.Listen to sounds on MarsObjectiveThe Perseverance rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life, which will advance NASA's quest to explore the past habitability of Mars.ScienceThe rover’s mission has four science objectives: Studying Mars' Habitability, Seeking Signs of Past Microbial Life, Collecting and Caching Samples, and Preparing for Future Human Missions.Raw ImagesView raw images sent back by Perseverance from its explorations on Mars.ResourcesVisit the one-stop-shop for all Perseverance media.Mission UpdatesRead updates provided by self-selected Mars 2020 mission team members who love to share what Perseverance is doing with the public.Featured VideoMars Rock Samples: The Stories They Could TellNASA's Mars Perseverance rover is building a unique rock collection, which also includes samples of Mars atmosphere and loose surface material. These samples record the history of the Jezero Crater landing site, and may even preserve signs of ancient life. Learn more about these precious samples, which Mars Sample Return could deliver to Earth for detailed study in the future.Learn MoreMars Ingenuity HelicopterStrapped to the rover's belly for the journey to Mars was a technology demonstration — the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, which completed 72 historic flights making it the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet.Learn MoreThis enhanced color image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard Perseverance on April 16, 2023