Vanderbilt University Wins NASA’s 2019 Student Launch Competition
NASA has announced the winners of the 2019 NASA Student Launch competition, with the Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Lab from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, claiming top honors.
Shrinking Moon May Be Generating Moonquakes
The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50 meters) skinnier over the last several hundred million years. Just as a grape wrinkles as it shrinks down to a raisin, the Moon gets wrinkles as it shrinks.
(VIDEO: 3:46) We Are Going
We are going to the Moon, to stay, by 2024. And this is how.
NASA Testing Method to Grow Bigger Plants in Space
In an effort to increase the ability to provide astronauts nutrients on long-duration missions as the agency plans to sustainably return to the Moon and move forward to Mars, the Veg-PONDS-02 experiment is currently underway aboard the International Space Station.
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