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As deputy director of Marshall Space Flight Center, Rick Burt helps guide the next era in exploration and discovery for one of NASA’s largest field installations, with a broad portfolio of human spaceflight, science, and technology development efforts that touch nearly every mission NASA pursues. Turns out growing up on his family’s farm in Columbia, Tennessee, was just the career training he needed. He and his older brother Danny spent weekends and summers as de facto farmhands â€�...

Black History Month: Sharon McDougle ‘suited up’ the first black woman to travel into space McDougle was a ‘suit tech’ for Dr. Mae Jemison’s historic mission Published:  Tags:  However, many are unaware that another African American woman was also part of this historic mission. Her name is Sharon McDougle, a former suit tech for the space shuttle program who talked to Houston Life about her incredible story. Sharon McDougle and Dr. Mae Jemison (Sharon McDougle) McDougle was respons...

Humans Will Never Colonise Mars Share Illustration: Benjamin Currie (Gizmodo) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. The suggestion that humans will soon set up bustling, long-lasting colonies on Mars is something many of us take for granted. What this lofty vision fails to appreciate, ...

Tulane University President Michael Fitts will host the third installment of the Presidential Speaker Series — Mindset: Breaking Barriers — via Zoom on Thursday, Feb. 11 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The program will feature Lisa Jackson, vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives at Apple, and Col. Douglas G. Hurley, a NASA astronaut and Spacecraft Commander on the first crewed test flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon. Both are Tulane alumni, with Jackson (E ’83) holding a bache...

By Ron Fink | 4:00 p.m. On Jan. 19, the Lompoc City Council discussed a resolution to accept a “Grant Award from Department of Defense’s Office of Economic Adjustment Military Installation Sustainability Program.” The grant has not been awarded yet, but may be by the time you read this. The staff report began with this statement: “Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), including its predecessors and successors, has been a significant driver for the city’s economy for several decades ...

SpaceX is getting ready to launch its very first crew to the International Space Station (ISS), targeting May 27, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The mission is being hailed as the beginning of a new era of human spaceflight. The flight test, dubbed Demo-2 will send two astronauts to the ISS as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The mission will mark the first launch of astronauts aboard an American rocket and spacecraft since the final Space Shuttle mission in 2011. In the las...

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"Woman in Motion" film reveals how actress Nichelle Nichols diversified NASA By Sydney Cameron ORLANDO, Fla. - A documentary exploring how Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols played an instrumental role in diversifying NASA will premiere in movie theaters nationwide Tuesday, for one week only. It will be released everywhere on digital and on demand Feb. 16. Woman in Motion tells the story of how Nichols, was one of the first African-American women featured in a major television series, recruite...

Historic NASA Launch Platform Will Be Demolished Image: NASA NASA’s Mobile Launcher Platform-2—a structure involved in the Apollo and Space Shuttle missions—is in the process of being torn down. Incredibly, the space agency is ridding itself of the massive platform to make room for parking spaces, as collectSpace reports. Advertisement In a matter of weeks, Mobile Launcher-2, or MLP-2, will be no more. Built more than 50 years ago, the historic NASA launcher was involved in such notable ...

This exclusive clip from Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek, and the Remaking of NASA highlights how one very famous fan changed Nichols' life.