3 min read NASA’s Van Allen Probe A to Re-Enter Atmosphere NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere almost 14 years after launch. From 2012 to 2019, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, flew through the Van Allen belts, rings of charged particles trapped by Earth’s magnetic field, to understand how particles were gainedContinue Reading
Kimberlee Prokhorov Human Systems Engineering & Integration Division Chief Kimberlee Prokhorov currently serves as the Chief of the Human Systems Engineering & Integration (HSE&I) Division within the Human Health and Performance (HH&P) Directorate at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC). The HSE&I Division focuses on System Engineering, System Management, HumanContinue Reading
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3 Min Read What Is Pi? (Grades 5-8) This article is for students grades 5-8. What is Pi? Pi is a number. You might know it as 3.14 or the symbol π. But it’s way more than that! What Makes Pi Special? Pi is an irrational number. That means itContinue Reading
Portrait of Brad Flick Credit: NASA On Monday, NASA announced Bradley Flick, director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, will retire Thursday, March 19, after a nearly 40-year career advancing aeronautics and flight research. Flick began his NASA journey in 1986 as a flight systems engineer andContinue Reading
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Oceans are rising as the climate changes, threatening coastal cities. A new study shows that much more of the world’s population is vulnerable than earlier predictions had estimated. (Image credit: Josh Edelson)Continue Reading
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NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, carrying the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft, arrives Feb. 25, 2026, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to troubleshoot the flow of helium to the rocket’s upper stage, the interim cryogenic propulsion stage. OnceContinue Reading