Eighty-four female high school students from 29 states will plan a simulated mission to Mars and experience life as an engineer or scientist when NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston hosts two events focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in June and July.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will speak with astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, commander of the 16th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) mission, and her fellow crewmate Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency at 4:10 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 20 as they perform their final “spacewalk” of the mission, 63 feet below the ocean’s surface.
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People in Chicago will have the rare chance to touch a nearly 4-billion-year-old piece of moon rock at NASA’s Driven to Explore traveling exhibit, a multimedia experience that immerses visitors in the story of NASA.
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Students from Clear Creek Independent School District now have a hand in helping NASA advance radiation protection in space.
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NASA astronaut Andrew “Drew” Feustel will talk with students in cyberspace as part of the Florida Summer Youth Program on Friday, June 22.
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Exhibits, planetarium shows, and community-based programming are among 18 projects NASA has selected to receive agency funding in 2012.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will return to his hometown of Columbia, S.C., June 18 to participate in a NASA Summer of Innovation celebration at W. A. Perry Middle School and the nearby Challenger Center.
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WASHINGTON — NASA has selected 50 elementary, middle and high school educators from across the nation to work side by side with agency scientists and engineers to learn research techniques and identify connections to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
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Students and educators from across the country will experience what it is like to be a rocket scientist during “Rocket Week,” June 16–22, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va.
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NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck will be on hand Saturday, June 16, at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) as six teams of engineers from across the country compete for agency-funded prize of $1.5 million.
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