Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin separately announced the funding, obtained by them through Congressionally Directed Spending requests and included in the Fiscal Year 2024 funding […]
Tag: NASA
Fairmont State, then Saturn? Drone competition next week has out-of-this-world expectations
FAIRMONT — This ain’t your dad’s drone. In other words, the students flying them next weekend at Fairmont State University won’t be using the buzzing crafts for […]
West Virginia to witness once-in-a-lifetime celestial event
On Monday, hundreds of factors will perfectly align to create a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for inhabitants of the Mountain State. The moon will position itself between the Earth […]
How does your garden grow? On the moon, pretty well (if Westwood Middle students have anything to do with it)
That’s one small step for interstellar irrigation … one giant leap for space-spinach, to be. “Took us a couple of days,” Will Bolyard said. “Then it was […]
WVU Libraries honors NASA mathematician
West Virginia native and NASA mathematician and space pioneer Katherine Johnson was celebrated Friday by the West Virginia University Libraries and the West Virginia and Regional History […]
Hate Elon Musk? Root for SpaceX anyway
by Christopher Cokinos Elon Musk is the most morally dubious rocket pioneer since Wernher von Braun. And the most successful. With each, we can critique faults and […]
Fly to Mars? Maybe. But why?
by John M. Crisp Last week NASA announced the names of the four astronauts who will crew Artemis II, a 10-day mission planned for November 2024. The […]
Our space junk problem just got a cheap solution
by Adam Minter This month, a hunk of space junk hurtled toward the International Space Station, putting the safety of astronauts and their orbiting outpost at risk. […]
Sen. Joe Manchin announces $748K for NASA research
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $748,564 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research […]
WVU engineering school to host ‘Girls’ STEM Day’ next month
Framed as such, it could have been the premise of a science-fiction novel. The day Katherine Johnson and Anna Brusoe constructed a time-bridge, that is. Anna, we’ll […]
