NASA has teamed with Louisiana State University and student groups from four universities for a launch that carried the first flight of the High Altitude Student Platform (HASP) to the near space environment of the upper atmosphere.
Andrew Lange, from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and Paolo de Bernardis, from the Universitá di Roma La Sapienza in Rome, received the award from the International Balzan Foundation "for their contributions to cosmology, in particular the BOOMERANG Antarctic balloon experiment."
WHAT: Media pre-mission briefing on the NASA, NOAA, Aerosonde Hurricane Boundary Layer Mission. Media may observe a demonstration flight of the Aerosonde unmanned aerial system.
The NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., has been selected by the Space and Missile Systems Center's Detachment 12 as the launch site for the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat 2 satellite.
Twelve visually impaired or blind high school students will have the opportunity to explore careers in rocketry as part of a partnership between NASA and the National Federation of the Blind.
The launch of the NASA Orion sounding rocket carrying experiments developed by students from across the country was successfully conducted this morning at 7:11.
NASA has successfully demonstrated a new automated system which may enhance launch safety and reduce costs for access to space.