The House passed the NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act of 2021 (H.R. 5746), a bipartisan bill that U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-39), who serves on the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, helped introduce to expand U.S. space innovation. H.R. 5746 would allow the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to …continue reading
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday, November 24, shortly before 1:30 a.m. carried a NASA payload to test whether an asteroid headed towards Earth could be knocked off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will crash into an asteroid named Dimorphos, …continue reading
The SETI Institute partnered with 14 school districts in eight states for the 2019 NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors (AAA) program. The AAA program is a professional development opportunity for high school science teachers designed to improve science teaching and learning and increase student engagement in Science Technology Engineering and Math …continue reading
In September 2014, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its annual assessment of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere, noting that levels had reached a record high. According to the WMO, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2013 was 142 percent of what it was in 1750, before …continue reading