HAMPTON, Va. — Langley Research Center is wrapping up the ‘NASA at 50’ lecture series that is celebrating a half-century of history with someone who was there when it all started. Roy Harris, Jr., the ...
The public is invited to a free talk called “Penguins, Polar Bears, and Laser Beams from Space: NASA Science at the Poles,” by NASA scientist Dr. Tom Neumann. The talk is part of the Gerald Soffen ...
Just 14 years after the Wright brothers flew the first powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, NASA Langley Research Center was founded to figure out how to get aircraft to go higher, faster, farther. More ...
This third lecture of the NASA’s 50th Anniversary Lecture Series is sponsored by NASA, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and George Washington University. MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Welcome to the campus ...
This week NASA hosted the Viking Mars Landers 40th anniversary symposium. In 1976 Viking 1 and 2 were the first landers to successfully land on Mars. From NASA: “NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 missions to Mars ...
BLAIR COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — One local man spent most of his life working with NASA and preparing America to explore the final frontier of outer space. He currently spends his time talking to others to ...
The dream of exploring deep space has sparked the imagination for generations, but it always runs up against one cold, hard reality: radiation. Simply put, exposure to space radiation during a long ...
Thomas Zurbuchen, retired director of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, and science journalist Nadia Drake will talk about the search for life beyond Earth in a free public lecture and ...
Last week, world renowned physicist Stephen Hawking gave a talk in honor of NASA's 50th anniversary on the value of human space exploration. If anyone knows the value of not ignoring pressing ...