NASA Opens Registration for 2020 Human Exploration Rover Challenge
The 2020 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge is set for April 17-18, 2020, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The challenge features students from high schools and colleges around the world designing, engineering and testing a human-powered rover to take on a course simulating terrain found on the Moon and Mars. Rover Challenge, now in its 26th year, is managed by the Office of STEM Engagement at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Health Checks, Science as Spacewalk Season Kicks Off
International Space Station Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan performed a 7-hour, 1-minute spacewalk Sunday. The duo will venture outside in their U.S. spacesuits again Friday for more battery replacement work on the P-6 truss structure.
Use your brain to help solve the universe’s greatest dilemmas — join the NASA Space Apps Challenge
Space Apps is an international hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, technologists and others in cities around the world. Teams engage with NASA’s free and open data to address real-world problems on Earth and in space.
NASA’s Push to Save the Mars InSight Lander’s Heat Probe
NASA’s InSight lander, which is on a mission to explore the deep interior of Mars, positioned its robotic arm this past weekend to assist the spacecraft’s self-hammering heat probe. Known as “the mole,” the probe has been unable to dig more than about 14 inches since it began burying itself into the ground Feb. 28. InSight is part of NASA’s Discovery Program, managed by Marshall.
NASA Seeks Industry Input on Hardware Production for Lunar Spacesuit
NASA is prepared to build and certify the initial spacesuits to support a demonstration in a spaceflight environment on the International Space Station in 2023 and the first trip to the lunar surface in 2024, as part of the Artemis III mission. After Artemis III, NASA plans to transition responsibility for production, assembly, testing, sustaining and maintenance of a fleet of flight and training spacesuits and associated hardware to U.S. Industry.