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''MEDIA ADVISORY M16-028'' '''NASA Television to Air Women’s History Month STEM Event at Goddard''' In partnership with the White House Council on Women and Girls, NASA will host a Women’s History Month event Wednesday, March 16 that examines the role of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), featuring some of NASA’s top leaders – women in STEM. The event at ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M16-033'' '''NASA Highlights Array of Experiments Launching on Next SpaceX Cargo Mission''' NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, March 28, to discuss cutting edge science investigations launching aboard the upcoming SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station. Experiments include the demonstration of an expandable space habitat, a ...

'''Hubble Looks Into a Cosmic Kaleidoscope''' At first glance, this cosmic kaleidoscope of purple, blue and pink offers a strikingly beautiful — and serene — snapshot of the cosmos. However, this multi-colored haze actually marks the site of two colliding galaxy clusters, forming a single object known as MACS J0416.1-2403 (or MACS J0416 for short). MACS J0416 is located about 4.3 billion light- ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE C16-006'' '''NASA Awards Information Technology Services Contract''' NASA has awarded an Information Technology Services (ITS) contract to SaiTech, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, for provision of a wide range of IT services to be performed at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The firm fixed-price contract, with a level of effort component, ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE C16-008'' '''NASA Awards Spacecraft Avionics Development Contract''' NASA has selected The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to provide development and operations support for the avionics software suite that will guide the agency's next generation of human rated spacecraft on missions beyond low-Earth orbit. The $38.7 million cost-plus-fixed- ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M16-034'' '''NASA to Host Human Exploration Rover Challenge''' Media are invited to watch as almost 80 teams from the United States, Italy, Germany, India, Mexico, Colombia and Russia, as well as Puerto Rico, compete in NASA’s annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge, April 8-9 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The rover challenge requires student teams ...

'''Slimmed Down Aircraft Wing Expected to Reduce Fuel and Emissions by 50%''' Every bit of weight on an aircraft increases the fuel, emissions and money required to put it in the air. NASA and Boeing have been working together to design a longer, thinner and lighter wing – so different from typical commercial transport aircraft wings that it requires a brace, or truss, to provide the wing extra ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY 16-042'' '''John Grunsfeld Announces Retirement from NASA''' John Grunsfeld will retire from NASA April 30, capping nearly four decades of science and exploration with the agency. His tenure includes serving as astronaut, chief scientist, and head of NASA’s Earth and space science activities. Grunsfeld has directed NASA’s Science Mission Directorate as associate administrator ...

'''Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds''' Astronomers have made great strides in discovering planets outside of our solar system, termed “exoplanets.” In fact, over the past 20 years more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected beyond the eight planets that call our solar system home. The majority of these exoplanets have been found snuggled up to their host star completing an orbit (or ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M16-037'' '''NASA Hosts Student Rocket Launch, Robotics Challenge''' NASA will host almost 50 high school, college and university teams from 22 states at its 16th annual Student Launch competition and second annual Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) Challenge, April 13-16 in Huntsville and Toney, Alabama. These events engage students across the country in NASA’s Journey to Mars through ...

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