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  • NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York, Utah
    by Gerelle Q. Dodson on June 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM

    Students from New York and Utah will hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station as they answer prerecorded questions in two separate events. At 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 23, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain will answer questions submitted by students from P.S. 71 Forest Elementary School in Ridgewood, New

  • Career Exploration: Using Ingenuity and Innovation to Create ‘Memory Metals’
    by Justin Locke on June 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM

    Othmane Benafan is a NASA engineer whose work is literally reshaping how we use aerospace materials — he creates metals that can shape shift. Benafan, a materials research engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, creates metals called shape memory alloys that are custom-made to solve some of the most pressing challenges of space

  • NASA Announces Winners of 2025 Student Launch Competition
    by Beth Ridgeway on June 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM

    By Beth Ridgeway  NASA’s Student Launch competition celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 4, just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, bringing together more than 980 middle school, high school, college, and university students from across the U.S. to showcase and launch their high-powered rocketry designs. The event marked the conclusion

  • NASA, Museum to Launch Junior Pilot School for Young Innovators
    by Dede Dinius on June 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM

    A new generation of aerospace explorers will soon embark on a hands-on summer experience focusing on careers in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM). This month, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and the Flight Test Museum Foundation will launch the 2025 Junior Test Pilot School. Held at Blackbird Airpark and Joe Davies

  • NASA Student Challenge Prepares Future Designers for Lunar Missions
    by Sumer Loggins on June 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM

    At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the next generation of lunar explorers and engineers are already hard at work. Some started with sketchbooks and others worked with computer-aided design files, but all had a vision of how design could thrive in extreme environments.Thanks to NASA’s Student Design Challenge, Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students