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Are you ready for this year’s NASA TechRise Student challenge: https://buff.ly/3RXQdvo ? From researching Earth’s environment to designing experiments for lunar and planetary exploration, schools are invited to join NASA in its mission to inspire the world through discovery. If you are in sixth to 12th grade at a U.S. public, private, or charter school – including those in U.S. territories – your challenge is to team up with your schoolmates and develop a science or technology experiment idea for one of the following NASA TechRise flight vehicles: - High-Altitude Balloon with approximately four hours of flight time at 70,000 feet and exposure to Earth’s atmosphere, high-altitude radiation, and perspective views of our planet - Rocket-Powered Lander that will fly for approximately two minutes at an altitude of 80 ft (~25 m) over a test field designed to look like the Moon’s surface A total of 60 winning teams will be selected to build their proposed experiment. Each winning team will be awarded: - $1,500 to build their experiment - A flight box in which to build it - An assigned spot to test their experiment on a NASA-sponsored flight - Technical support during the experiment build phase from Future Engineers advisors, who will help students learn the skills they need to turn their experiment idea into reality. Note that no experience is necessary to participate in the NASA TechRise Challenge!

It's not just a sample return mission. It's a proof of what we humans are capable of. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration is working on a few more asteroid missions, interplanetary missions, and human spaceflight missions. As a nation, if we need to scale up our contribution to space exploration and saving humanity, we need to take space to the classrooms. We need to involve students in research activities in the domain of space, aeronautics, quantum mechanics, particle physics, astrophysics, material science, electronics, computer science, and many more. We need to eliminate the gap between industry and academia, dump the grading system, and build a value adding education program by the implementation of project-based learning methods. Missions like Chandrayaan-3 inspire young generation. But, it is important to nurture these aspirations and dreams by providing them enough opportunities within the country. Only way we can grow as a space fairing nation is by taking space to the classrooms. Let's work together and make space accessible for everyone.

🎓 Clemson University has entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, marking a significant milestone in its history of collaboration with the space agency. This partnership was commemorated with a signing ceremony attended by Clemson alumna and NASA Johnson Space Center Director, Vanessa Wyche. Key Highlights: 🔹Strategic Collaboration: The agreement aims to leverage Clemson's expertise and NASA's resources to tackle complex challenges in space exploration. 🔹Focus on Education: It emphasizes enhancing educational experiences for Clemson students, preparing them for critical roles in future space missions. 🔹Multidisciplinary Approach: The partnership will advance research in Aerospace Engineering, Space and Earth Science, among other fields. 🗣️ Bob Jones, Clemson’s EVP of Academic Affairs, outlined the university's vision to become a pivotal force in shaping the future of space exploration. Vanessa Wyche underscored the importance of this collaboration in fostering workforce development and facilitating student exchanges. Read more 👇 How do you see academic-industry partnerships like this shaping the future of space exploration and education? https://lnkd.in/df3jpPh8 #ClemsonUniversity #NASA #SpaceExploration #Education #Partnership #Innovation

Dr. Amos Ariny (Astronomer) or NASA Astronaut flight engineer 1984- Present, Gaia is a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 2013 and expected to operate until 2025. The spacecraft is designed for astrometry: measuring the positions, distances and motions of stars with unprecedented precision,[5][6] and the positions of exoplanets by measuring attributes about the stars they orbit such as their apparent magnitude and color.While scanning the sky to chart a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, ESA’s Gaia satellite is also sensitive to celestial bodies closer to home, and regularly observes asteroids in our Solar System. This view shows the orbits of more than 14 000 known asteroids (with the Sun at the centre of the image) based on information from Gaia’s second data release, which was made public in 2018. The majority of asteroids depicted in this image, shown in bright red and orange hues, are main-belt asteroids, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; Trojan asteroids, found around the orbit of Jupiter, are shown in dark red. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel[a] (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy. Nicolaus Copernicus[b] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. In all likelihood, Copernicus developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.[6][c][d][e] The publication of Copernicus's model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution. A polyglot and polymath, he obtained a doctorate in canon law and was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist. From 1497 he was a Warmian Cathedral chapter canon. In 1517 he derived a quantity theory of money—a key concept in economics—and in 1519 he formulated an economic principle that later came to be called Gresham's la https://lnkd.in/daSckkVQ Website;https;//www.Facebook.com/aamor9. Email; [email protected] Website;www;twitter.com/aamor9 https://lnkd.in/gyCGhq2A www.nasa.gov www.pinterest.com;aamor9 www.tumblr.com/aamor9 Wikipedia account, Winning science fair trophy 2011 photo, https://lnkd.in/gzHS-Djt

Day 2 of #NCAS2024Explore Mission 2: go! My incredible team, Artemis Skylab Red (ASR), and I have chosen to go to the Moon over Mars! We are responsible for paying close attention to adapting to Space and/or working in zero/near-zero gravity so we are all about human flight here at ASR and we could not in good conscious send our simulated astronauts to Mars without a strong longer-term more recent mission to the moon. We are following the lead of NASA's Johnson Space Center's clear priority of human health and safety and making communication and system redundancy as we assess our budget and plans for scientific return. #MUREP If you are a community college student, or know someone who is, applications for Mission 1 are open for the fall! https://lnkd.in/dRM-W7jf

Dr. Amos Ariny (Astronomer) or NASA Astronaut flight engineer 1984- Present; Nicolaus Copernicus[b] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. In all likelihood, Copernicus developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.[6][c][d][e] The publication of Copernicus's model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution. A polyglot and polymath, he obtained a doctorate in canon law and was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist. From 1497 he was a Warmian Cathedral chapter canon. In 1517 he derived a quantity theory of money—a key concept in economics—and in 1519 he formulated an economic principle that later came to be called Gresham's law In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle. It states that the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares on the other two sides. The theorem can be written as an equation relating the lengths of the sides a, b and the hypotenuse c, sometimes called the Pythagorean equation: 𝑎2 𝑏2=𝑐2. The theorem can be generalized in various ways: to higher-dimensional spaces, to spaces that are not Euclidean, to objects that are not right triangles, and to objects that are not triangles at all but n-dimensional solids. A recent paper may help explain why a portable chemistry lab on NASA’s Curiosity rover has continually sniffed out traces of the gas near the surface of Gale Crater. The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads. Living creatures produce most of the methane on Earth. But scientists haven’t found convincing signs of current or ancient life on Mars, and thus didn’t expect to find methane there.the portable chemistry lab aboard Curiosity, known as SAM, or Sample Analysis at Mars,. Its likely source, scientists assume, are geological mechanisms that involve water and rocks deep underground. https://lnkd.in/daSckkVQ Website;https;//www.Facebook.com/aamor9. Email; [email protected] Website;www;twitter.com/aamor9 https://lnkd.in/gyCGhq2A www.nasa.gov www.pinterest.com;aamor9 www.tumblr.com/aamor9 Wikipedia account, Winning science fair trophy 2011 photo, https://lnkd.in/gzHS-Djt

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School's out for summer, but the learning doesn't stop! Join NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's "What is Open Science 101?" online training and dive into the world of open science! This 5-module curriculum is perfect for researchers, students, and citizen scientists looking to master the principles and practices of open science. Learn how to develop an open science and data management plan and earn your NASA Open Science Certification. https://lnkd.in/dRzGsAVi #OpenScience #CitizenScience #ScienceForAll