/tags/nasa NASA en-US Copyright Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:15:14 GMT /education/2024-12-09/nasa-moon-trees-nc-universities-western-carolina Seedlings from NASA’s Artemis I mission were sent to education institutions across the state. Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:15:14 GMT /education/2024-12-09/nasa-moon-trees-nc-universities-western-carolina Brianna Atkinson /news/2024-08-12/nc-central-duke-telescope-project-nasa NCCU has been brought on by Duke University to help with the $3.6 billion project for NASA’s Nancy Grace Telescope. Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:38:33 GMT /news/2024-08-12/nc-central-duke-telescope-project-nasa Sharryse Piggott /news/2024-05-08/christina-koch-astronaut-nc-state-nasa-moon-space Christina Koch wanted to be an astronaut for as long as she could remember. And so she became one. Was it as simple as that? The North Carolina State University graduate stopped by the ��������վ studio during a recent visit back to the Tar Heel State. Wed, 08 May 2024 20:20:09 GMT /news/2024-05-08/christina-koch-astronaut-nc-state-nasa-moon-space Josh Sullivan, Jeff Tiberii /environment/2023-07-14/ghost-forests-growing-concern-research-north-carolina-programs A new funding opportunity is available for a North Carolina grad student to study these habitats developing across the state’s East Coast. Fri, 14 Jul 2023 12:54:13 GMT /environment/2023-07-14/ghost-forests-growing-concern-research-north-carolina-programs Sophie Mallinson /news/2023-04-03/nasa-will-return-to-the-moon-and-an-nc-state-grad-has-been-chosen-as-the-first-woman-to-do-so NASA, along with the Canadian Space Agency, has named the four astronauts that will be the next group to head to the moon as a part of Artemis II. A North Carolina State University graduated is going to be one of them. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:04:27 GMT /news/2023-04-03/nasa-will-return-to-the-moon-and-an-nc-state-grad-has-been-chosen-as-the-first-woman-to-do-so Josh Sullivan /news/2022-06-02/new-guilford-county-schools-to-be-named-after-civil-rights-pioneer-and-nasa-mathematician On Tuesday, the Guilford County Schools Board of Education approved the name “Sylvia Mendez Newcomers School” for a future High Point school. The board also voted to name a new K-8 school after Katherine Johnson, one of several Black women who played crucial roles as NASA mathematicians. Thu, 02 Jun 2022 18:34:25 GMT /news/2022-06-02/new-guilford-county-schools-to-be-named-after-civil-rights-pioneer-and-nasa-mathematician Neal Charnoff / WFDD /2020-06-25/saharan-dust-cloud-arrives-at-the-u-s-gulf-coast-bringing-haze The phenomenon happens every year – but the 2020 version is especially large and imposing, experts say. Thu, 25 Jun 2020 21:55:54 GMT /2020-06-25/saharan-dust-cloud-arrives-at-the-u-s-gulf-coast-bringing-haze Bill Chappell /2020-01-16/scientists-sent-mighty-mice-to-space-to-improve-treatments-back-on-earth Forty mice spent more than a month in orbit to test two approaches to strengthening muscle and bone in microgravity conditions. The results could help people with muscle and bone diseases. Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:06:00 GMT /2020-01-16/scientists-sent-mighty-mice-to-space-to-improve-treatments-back-on-earth Jon Hamilton /show/the-state-of-things/2019-11-06/unc-alumna-and-astronaut-trainee-zena-cardman-revels-in-the-poetry-of-outer-space Zena Cardman knew she might not have another opportunity to pursue poetry. She was about to dive into graduate research on microbiology in extreme… Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:16:17 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2019-11-06/unc-alumna-and-astronaut-trainee-zena-cardman-revels-in-the-poetry-of-outer-space Grant Holub-Moorman, Anita Rao /science-technology/2019-11-06/unc-alumna-and-astronaut-trainee-zena-cardman-revels-in-the-poetry-of-outer-space Zena Cardman knew she might not have another opportunity to pursue poetry. She was about to dive into graduate research on microbiology in extreme… Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:16:17 GMT /science-technology/2019-11-06/unc-alumna-and-astronaut-trainee-zena-cardman-revels-in-the-poetry-of-outer-space Grant Holub-Moorman, Anita Rao