NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Steve Jurczyk as the agency’s Associate Administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, effective Monday, March 2. The directorate is responsible for innovating, developing, testing and flying hardware for use on future NASA missions.
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Over the past 12 months NASA has added five missions to its orbiting Earth-observing fleet – the biggest one-year increase in more than a decade. NASA scientists will discuss early observations from the new missions and their current status during a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 26.
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As Tropical Cyclone Marcia was nearing the Queensland coast, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM measured its rainfall from space.
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NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will host a Black History Month observance on Feb. 23 with former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin — veteran of space shuttle missions STS-122 and STS-129 — as the keynote speaker.
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Two instruments aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite, NASA-JAXA’s GPM core satellite, the RapidScat instrument aboard the International Space Station provided information to forecasters before and after Lam came ashore.
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NASA astronaut and Harvard graduate Stephanie Wilson will visit her alma mater to take part in discussions focused on inspiring girls to pursue technology careers.
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NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and ESA’s (European Space Agency) XMM-Newton telescope are showing that fierce winds from a supermassive black hole blow outward in all directions — a phenomenon that had been suspected, but difficult to prove until now.
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After Tropical Cyclone Lam formed in the northern Gulf of Carpentaria on Feb. 17, two NASA satellites provided data on the storm.
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Part of the Queensland, Australia’s eastern coast is now under warnings from Tropical Cyclone Marcia.
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The report details significant future increases in temperature, precipitation and sea level in the New York metropolitan area.
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