NASA astronaut Victor Glover, the first Black man assigned to a lunar mission, visited Indianapolis during WNBA All-Star Weekend to speak with kids about STEM, teamwork, and what it takes to fly to the Moon.
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Black astronaut celebrates the journey from slave ship to spaceship
Thirty years after becoming the first Black man to walk in space, Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. is headed to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. He continues to empower underserved youth through STEM education and outreach.
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Rare Seven-Planet Alignment to Light Up the Skies on February 28, 2025
On February 28, 2025, seven planets in the solar system will align in a rare celestial event known as a planetary parade, providing a once-in-a-generation phenomenon for sky-gazers to witness.
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‘The Space Race’ soars high at the Tribeca Film Festival
The footage in ‘The Space Race’ feels like someone giving a graduate course in Black astronauts, an Afrofuturism masterclass, and a lesson in perseverance.
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Satellites zoom in on cities’ hottest neighborhoods to combat the urban heat ‘island effect’
When heat waves strike, some urban neighborhoods will get hit much harder which creates ‘micro-urban heat islands.’
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NASA engineer finds diversity essential to problem solving
Two exploration rovers that landed on Mars in 2004 were designed to survive an approximately 90-day mission, but both outlived their projected life by at least twice what was expected, notes NASA Engineer Kobie Boykins. Boykins will discuss this and other such engineering successes and failures at an upcoming talk about Mars missions on April […]
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Joan Higginbotham: her passion for math and science led to outer space
WASHINGTON — During grade school growing up in Chicago, Joan Higginbotham she said she always enjoyed math and science. That led to her love for electronics as a young, inquisitive girl. “I was fascinated with electronics. I used to mess around with things at home,” Higginbotham said. Ultimately, the fascination with math, science and electronics […]
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“Hidden Figures” — NASA docu-drama belatedly credits unsung African American mathematicians
All of the astronauts picked by NASA to participate in its maiden manned space programs, Mercury and Gemini, were White males. However, behind the scenes, there was a dedicated team of African American women mathematicians who played a pivotal role in ensuring that they launched and returned safely, whether from orbiting the Earth or a […]