By Alex Stuckey Published 6:00 am CDT, Thursday, August 16, 2018 Photo: CREDIT: NASA Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 Vanessa Wyche, new deputy director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Vanessa Wyche, new deputy director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Photo: CREDIT: NASA First African American deputy director of NASA's Johnson Space Center speaks at free event next week 1 / 1 Back to Gallery The first African American deputy director of Houston's Johnson Space Center will be speaking at an event next week alongside two other leading ladies of NASA. In a historic move, Vanessa Wyche earlier this month became second in command at Johnson. She has worked at NASA for nearly three decades and will help Mark Geyer, the center's director, run one of NASA's largest facilities, home to the … [Read more...] about First African American deputy director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center speaks at free event next week
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Stennis employee wins 2018 Women of Color STEM Conference award
Dawn Davis NASA engineer Dawn Davis of New Orleans, chief of the electrical design and software branch of the Stennis Space Center Engineering and Test Directorate, has won one of the most important honors in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Davis was named recipient of the Professional Achievement (Government) Award by the Women of Color STEM Conference. She will be honored during the 23rd Women of Color STEM Conference on Oct. 11-13 in Detroit. Since 1995, awards presented at the Women of Color Conference have honored excellence in STEM and underscored the serious underrepresentation of women in STEM and at senior levels in all disciplines. For 23 years, employers committed to inclusion have chosen the Women of Color STEM Conference to exchange best practices and strategies on how to attract and keep girls and women in scientific and technical fields. The recognition program is more important than ever before as just half of STEM graduates pursue careers in their … [Read more...] about Stennis employee wins 2018 Women of Color STEM Conference award
Three of NASA’s first female astronaut recruits speaking at Space Center Houston this week
By Alex Stuckey Published 6:00 am, Monday, June 25, 2018 Thirty-five years after Sally Ride became NASA's first woman in space, three of the space agency's first female recruits will be speaking Thursday, July 28 at Space Center Houston. The trio of trailblazers -- Shannon Lucid, Rhea Seddon and Anna Fisher -- were among a group of six women tapped for the 1978 astronaut class -- the first year the space agency allowed women. Ride was also in that astronaut class, but died in 2012 from cancer. After she made history in 1983 by being the first American female in space, she went up on the space shuttle once more before hanging up her spacesuit. MySA News Videos Now Playing: Now Playing Mission vandals caught on surveillance camera San Antonio Express-News Man arrested hours after ATM heist San Antonio Express-News Stolen forklift used in ATM heist at a North Side bank San Antonio Express-News SAPD: Body found outside S.A. corner store San … [Read more...] about Three of NASA’s first female astronaut recruits speaking at Space Center Houston this week
Mark Geyer named new director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center
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NASA Aircraft Spots Mysterious Circles In Remote Arctic Sea Ice
SCIENCE 04/23/2018 05:45 am ET Scientists say they haven't seen these features before. By Ed Mazza NASA scientists are working to solve a mystery in the Arctic ice. Operation IceBridge is a project that sends flights over both polar regions to photograph and map land and sea ice. And images that were taken during a flight on April 14 over the Beaufort Sea, 50 miles northwest of the Mackenzie River Delta, showed a series of unusual shapes in the sea ice. “We saw these sorta-circular features only for a few minutes today,” mission scientist John Sonntag wrote from the field, per NASA. “I don’t recall seeing this sort of thing elsewhere.” NASA also released an image with the main features labeled: NASA said some of the features had an easy explanation: The ice in the area was young and thin. When these types of floes collide, “finger rafting” ― the zipper-like feature at the top right ― will … [Read more...] about NASA Aircraft Spots Mysterious Circles In Remote Arctic Sea Ice