Did you explore with us?
- By Sara Mitchell
- May 19, 2011
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Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo If you’ve ever driven by NASA Goddard, you might have noticed there’s not that much to see from outside the fence. You might catch a glimpse of a building or two, peeking between the trees. You get a better view from the Visitor Center, which is the … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 5/16/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- May 16, 2011
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Want to see NASA Goddard in 3D? Get out your glasses and check out this really cool YouTube video showing the Center and some of the work that goes on here.
Come explore with us!
- By Sara Mitchell
- May 13, 2011
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If you’re in the DC area this weekend, then you’re in for a special treat – NASA Goddard will be opening its gates on Saturday, May 14th for a big public event! We’ve got so much in store, rain or shine… hands-on activities, tours, demonstrations, games, concerts, and more. And … Continue Reading →
Webb Goes Full Spectrum
- By Sara Mitchell
- May 12, 2011
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A couple of weeks ago, I got involved in a top secret recording project – two of our scientists were putting together an audition video for TED2012: Full Spectrum, and they needed someone to record the audio for their short clip. It was a whirlwind recording session, but when I … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 5/9/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- May 9, 2011
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If you’re in the DC metro area and free on Saturday, May 14, come to our open house, Explore@NASAGoddard. It’s free, and runs 11-5. You can find more details on this site, but watch out, it’ll automatically start playing a video, so you might want to turn your sound down. … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 5/3/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- May 3, 2011
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Here at Blueshift, we’re big fans of increasing the awesome. In fact, it’s pretty much our top priority when we’re picking the stories that we want to share (and why we call this the “awesomeness round-up,” and not “some random stuff we found”). So we really loved this video by … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 4/26/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- April 26, 2011
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Happy 21st anniversary, Hubble! To celebrate this milestone, the telescope was pointed at a lovely pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. The shape (which reminds some of a rose) is due to the gravitational tidal pull between the pair, which is distorting the disk of the larger galaxy. It’s … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 4/19/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- April 19, 2011
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This stunning new image was taken of the first six James Webb Space Telescope flight mirrors were being prepped for cryo testing at Marshall Space Flight Center. You can read more about this mirror milestone in the NASA.com feature. Image Credit: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham
The path towards becoming a research astronomer
- By Maggie Masetti
- April 15, 2011
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I’ve been helping out with “RealWorld-InWorld,” an engineering design challenge in which James Webb Space Telescope is participating. We’ve had various project folks give talks or Q&A sessions in the virtual world being used for the project. I recently posted an interview with Keith Parrish, a sunshield engineer. We have … Continue Reading →
It was 30 years ago today…
- By Maggie Masetti
- April 12, 2011
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…that the first space shuttle was launched. On April 12, 1981, at Pad 39A, just seconds past 7 a.m., the space shuttle Columbia carried astronaut John Young and Robert Crippen into Earth orbit. Credit: NASA I think our Administrator, Charlie Bolden (a former astronaut), said it best when he called … Continue Reading →
