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The Ocean Worlds Exploration Program (OWEP) is a NASA program [1] to explore ocean worlds in the outer Solar System that could possess subsurface oceans to assess their habitability and to seek biosignatures of simple extraterrestrial life. Prime targets include moons that harbor hidden oceans beneath a shell of ice: Europa, Enceladus, and ...
In January 2016, NASA approved the addition of a lander, [51] [52] but this was canceled in 2017 because it was deemed too risky. [53] In May 2016, the Ocean Worlds Exploration Program was approved, [54] of which the Europa mission is part. [55] In February 2017, the mission moved from Phase A to Phase B (the preliminary design phase). [56]
The PACE project is managed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. [7] The main instrument and bus were designed and built at Goddard Space Flight Center. [8] On 4 February 2020, NASA announced the selection of SpaceX to launch PACE on a Falcon 9, at a total cost to NASA of US$80.4 million, including the launch service and other mission-related ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is scheduled to discuss new findings on Thursday from the Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope. WATCH: NASA announces new discoveries on ...
A security guard examines the new sign near the entrance to the Lewis Research Center one day after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was officially established. NASA came into being on October 1, 1958, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory became the NASA Lewis ...
USA (NASA) Pioneer 5: 19 August 1960: First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit. USSR Sputnik 5: 25 September 1960 First rocket engine fired in space. USA (NASA) Pioneer P-30 [10] 31 January 1961: First hominidae in space (chimpanzee Ham). First tasks performed in space. USA (NASA) M-R 2: 12 February 1961
Cubes in Space. NASA started an annual competition in 2014 named "Cubes in Space". [264] It is jointly organized by NASA and the global education company I Doodle Learning, with the objective of teaching school students aged 11–18 to design and build scientific experiments to be launched into space on a NASA rocket or balloon. On June 21 ...
For NASA, the Aquarius habitat and its surroundings provide a convincing analog for space exploration. [2] Much like space, the undersea world is a hostile, alien place for humans to live. NEEMO crew members experience some of the same challenges there that they would on a distant asteroid, planet (i.e. Mars) or Moon. During NEEMO missions, the ...