Being in outer space didn’t stop this astronaut from pulling off some “monkey business.” Former astronaut Scott Kelly lived on the International Space Station for almost a year in 2015 and 2016. With only several days remaining in his mission, his twin brother, Mark Kelly, decided to send him a special package. “I was on …
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At 17 years old and with only $300 in her pocket, Diana Trujillo moved to the US from Cali, Colombia, to pursue her dreams of studying the universe and exploring outer space. A few decades later, Trujillo now works as an aerospace engineer for NASA, leading a team of 45 people at NASA’s Jet Propulsion …
SMART, a startup co-founded by “Survivor: Fiji” champion Earl Cole and engineer Brian Yennie, is set to launch a new product based on the innovations of NASA: an airless bicycle tire. In partnership with NASA through the Space Act Agreement, SMART has developed their METL tire. It is the first fruit of the startup’s collaboration …
Parents always tell their children to dream big, and a 12-year-old girl from Arizona is taking that to heart. Alena Wicker is set to attend Arizona State University this summer. Her goal? To land a job at NASA as an engineer by the age of 16. While that may sound like an impossible feat, Alena is …