Shujaat Ahmed: NASA Student Ambassador

March 14, 2012 | NASA recently accepted its fourth cohort of Student Ambassadors. These exceptional individuals engage their fellow undergraduate and graduate students in NASA science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), as well as participate in research and immersion opportunities. They collaborate with and inspire their peers, make professional connections and represent NASA to the public. We have invited some [...]

A New World of Innovation

February 29, 2012 | The Open Government Initiative is excited to invite Syracuse University industrial and interaction design student Katy Jeremko to share about the recent design charrette that Syracuse held in advance of the International Space Apps Challenge. This interactive event offered university students an opportunity to dialogue about space data while helping to shape the proposed challenges and [...]

I Am NASA: Justin Kugler, Strategic Relationships Manager

February 16, 2012 | We are now ready to see the world's only permanent outpost in space come into its full potential as a unique platform for scientific research and technology development. That's why I work on the International Space Station Program.

My Robot is Better than Your Robot

December 16, 2011 | Have you seen this amazing video about SCIENCE? Science rocks, and FIRST Robotics is just one of the many incredible programs out there inspiring the next generation with real-world STEM education. And all you awesome Robotics students out there, keep reaching for the moon. We can’t wait to see what you create. Do you know about [...]

#celebratespace: World Space Week

September 12, 2011 | What are YOU doing to celebrate World Space Week? Declared by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999, and celebrated by hundreds of space agencies, aerospace companies, schools, planetaria, and museums, World Space Week is the largest annual space event in the world. World Space Week builds the workforce of tomorrow by inspiring students, demonstrates visible [...]

NASA Open Data Highlight: ISS Live!

July 27, 2011 | JSC’s ISSLive! project is an exceptional example of NASA’s commitment to data and mission transparency in an interactive, participatory environment. For the true space geeks and data lovers among us – I hope you are excited. “Just 150 miles above us, the International Space Station (ISS) is orbiting. (Sidenote: If you haven’t seen cool open-source projects like [...]

NASA Open Data Highlight: Voyager

June 15, 2011 | “Even in hindsight, I would not change one whit of the Voyager experience. Dreams and sweat carried it off. But most of all, its legacy makes us all Earth travelers among the stars.” Charles Kohlhase, Voyager Mission Analysis Engineer For the last 33 years, the twin Voyager spacecraft have been exploring the edges of the solar [...]

Teaching Learning

May 24, 2011 | Recently I was privileged to attend the Conrad Foundation’s Spirit of Innovation Awards (http://conradawards.org/) at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA. The program encourages teams of high school students to address specific problems in the categories of Aerospace Exploration, Clean Energy and Cyber Security. The students then pitch their innovations and their business plans to [...]

Partnerships, participation, and possibilities: Train Like an Astronaut

April 2, 2011 | Educational partnerships offer NASA an avenue for collaboration and participation far beyond natural boundaries. Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut is an international outreach challenge aligning agencies worldwide to address the critical world health issue of childhood obesity by offering students the opportunity to ‘train like an astronaut.’ Each of the space agencies committed to [...]

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