NASA's Cube Quest Challenge Aims to Send Nanosatellites to Lunar Orbit and Beyond on First SLS Flight

By Leonidas Papadopoulos, on December 4th, 2014

Registration is now open for NASA’s latest Centennial Challenges technology prize competition, called Cube Quest Challenge. The competition will award up to a total of $5 million to any teams that will successfully demonstrate a CubeSat in-space operations and communications in lunar orbit and beyond. Image Credit: NASA

With the much-anticipated, first test […]

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Stars Above and Earth Below: NASA's Proposed New Airship Competition Good for Science

By Paul Scott Anderson, on November 30th, 2014

Artist’s conception of a new high-altitude NASA airship which could make science observations of both the Earth below and stars above. Image Credit: Mike Hughes (Eagre Interactive)/Keck Institute for Space Studies

Airships are a unique form of transportation—giant, balloon-like, lighter-than-air vehicles which can stay aloft for extended periods of time. Their design makes […]

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Defense Association Honors NASA Marshall Center's Dr. Daniel M. Schumacher

By Press Release, on January 25th, 2014

Dr. Daniel M. Schumacher, manager of the Science and Technology Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been honored with an award for exceptional technical achievement by the Air, Space, and Missile Defense Association, or ASMDA. The 2013 Space and Missile Service Excellence Award-Government, presented to Schumacher Jan. 7, […]

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