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NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps will become the first black woman to be a crew member on the International Space Station. On Tuesday, NASA said Epps will join astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada on a 2021 mission aboard a Boeing-built Starliner spacecraft. Epps has a doctorate in aerospace engineering. Served seven years as a technical […]
The year 2020 ‘could end with a bang,’ literally. According to scientists from NASA a huge asteroid on it’s way and could possibly hit Earth. NASA says projected it could hit us the day before the presidential election in November. I tell you Trump will do anything to stay in office… just kidding. The size […]
On May 31st a SpaceX crew named Dragon–the spacecraft’s name is Endeavour–took off in a Falcon 9 rocket located at the Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Whether or not they land today comes down to, the weather. What I want to know is–who is in charge of naming these things? […]
NASA’s 1st black female engineer Mary W. Jackson, will be the name you see on NASA’s headquarters building. Jackson began her career in the 1950s in a segregated computing unit at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Jackson’s daughter, Carolyn Lewis said her family was “honored” by the recognition. “She was a scientist, humanitarian, […]
The SpaceX rocket ship was supposed to launch this afternoon but could not because of the bad weather. Two NASA astronauts were onboard and the flight would of made history as it headed to the International Spaces Station. It would of been the first time a privately owned company like Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket ship […]
Looking for something to entertain the kids this week? Love science? Just look up to the sky. Between Monday night and Tuesday morning the eta Aquariids will be active. What are the eta Aquariids? Pieces of Halley’s Comet. Halley’s Comet can be seen from Earth every 75 years some people are lucky to see it twice […]
There is a silver lining to the COVID-19 cloud – literally. According to recent satellite data from NASA, air pollution has declined significantly across the northeastern U.S. and many other parts of the world. Atmospheric levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution caused by electricity production, and car and truck emissions, have dropped by almost 30% compared […]
Among more than 10,000 national nominees, Clayton Turner received the 2020 Black Engineer of the Year award, presented to him in Washington, D.C. This award, representing achievement in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), honors Turner’s accomplishments at NASA. After he graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 1990, Turner started […]
One of the greatest mathematical minds in the country, Katherine Johnson, died on Monday at age 101. She was living at a retirement home in Newport News, VA. Mrs. Johnson was responsible for calculating the precise trajectories that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and let it return safely to Earth. […]
Written by DJ Reign A Delta Airlines flight crew recently gave back to a group of young girls in a major and dope way! The all female flight crew flew 120 girls to NASA in Houston, Texas as a part of Delta’s initiative to shrink the gender gap in aviation. Run by all women, the […]
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