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Inspired by the competition that eventually led to Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, Diamandis launched the contest with the goal of jumpstarting the commercial space industry.

Micra, a device which manufacturer and medical device giant Medtronic calls the world's smallest pacemaker (it's a one - inch long product that doesn't contain any leads), is being sent to the final frontier to examine how it's affected by high radiation and low temperatures during space flight.

«The 21st Space Wing, using its global Space Surveillance Network of ground - and space - based radar and optical sensors, is tracking Tiangong - 1,» Diana McKissock, a flight lead with the US Air Force's 18th Space Control Squadron, told Business Insider in an eSpace Wing, using its global Space Surveillance Network of ground - and space - based radar and optical sensors, is tracking Tiangong - 1,» Diana McKissock, a flight lead with the US Air Force's 18th Space Control Squadron, told Business Insider in an eSpace Surveillance Network of ground - and space - based radar and optical sensors, is tracking Tiangong - 1,» Diana McKissock, a flight lead with the US Air Force's 18th Space Control Squadron, told Business Insider in an espace - based radar and optical sensors, is tracking Tiangong - 1,» Diana McKissock, a flight lead with the US Air Force's 18th Space Control Squadron, told Business Insider in an eSpace Control Squadron, told Business Insider in an email.

He has lead the payload team on a NASA - funded CubeSat project, taken multiple space - policy study abroad trips, and worked internships at Cummins Engine Company, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and Northrop Gruspace - policy study abroad trips, and worked internships at Cummins Engine Company, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and Northrop GruSpace Flight Center, and Northrop Grumman.

The first X Prize, for the first private piloted vehicle to reach space, led to the development of SpaceShipOne, a rocket - powered plane that made two flights in two weeks in 2004 to win the $ 10 million prize.

We know that sea levels are increasing thanks to the satellite observations, collated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as coastal tide gauge records monitored by Australia's leading science body, the CSIRO.

He expressed enthusiasm for private sector — led space flight.

Star - filled parties and a flight on the Vomit Comet: a ticket to space with Virgin Galactic has already led to some extraordinary trips

The first suggestion that the flow existed came in 2008, when a group led by Alexander Kashlinsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, scrutinised what was then the best map of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the big bang's afterglow.

The team, led by Alan Kogut of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, took measurements with a radio antenna named ARCADE that dangled from a high - altitude balloon over eastern Texas in July 2006.

Using these new data, a research team led by Charles L. Bennett of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and David Spergel of Princeton University compiled a full sky map that reveals our universe in its earliest stages.

Last year, using ground - based telescopes, a team led by Michael Mumma of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center reported that Mars's methane is concentrated in vast plumes.

Now a team led by William Farrell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has modelled how dust could be thrown up at the moon's poles, where the solar wind blows horizontally over crater rims.

A team led by astronomer Kenji Hamaguchi of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, used the XMM - Newton and Chandra x-ray satellites to study a stellar nursery just 550 light - years from Earth.

There is no doubt that the 2015 study, led by Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, flew in the face of previous research and even assertions made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

This positioning allowed a team led by Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland to observe Jupiter using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.

Antti Pulkkinen, who leads NASA's «Solar Shield» satellite - based detection system at the Goddard Space Flight Center, said the cloud of ionized particles from Tuesday's violent «coronal mass ejection» will largely miss Earth, giving some North American residents a glimpse of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, this weekend.

A research team led by Timothy J. Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center analyzed images from NASA's Polar spacecraft and the IMAGE spacecraft taken of both the northern (aurora borealis) and southern (aurora australis) lights.

This NASA video describes the project in a bit more detail, and interviews Babak Saif, a physicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center who is leading the effort.

«Robotic spacecraft are usually radiation - hardened to protect against these kinds of events,» said Chris St. Cyr, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the sspace scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the sSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the study.

Ahuna Mons is a volcanic dome unlike any seen elsewhere in the solar system, according to a new analysis led by Ottaviano Ruesch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Universities Space Research Association.

For now, astronauts like Foreman and Metcalf - Lindenburger remain confident that their daredevil flights and six - hour swims will lead to inspiring space adventures — that NASA's drift is a temporary lull.

«The WMAP results are a turning point,» says astrophysicist Charles Bennett of Goddard Space Flight Center, the probe's lead scientist.

A team led by hydrospheric scientist William Krabill of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, used a laser altimeter to survey the ice height over southern Greenland by flying 400 meters above the massive ice cap.

A second study, led by Hailan Wang of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, used different model simulations and came to a similar conclusion: While a warming sea surface did make it more likely that a high - pressure ridge could form, the signal was not strong enough to explain its extreme nature.

Dust will affect climate and, at the same time, climate change will affect dust,» said lead author Hongbin Yu, an associate research scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

The strongest evidence for methane comes from a team led by Michael Mumma, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«We think that there is a dormant black hole there that has accreted a lump of matter — probably a star that has fallen into it,» says astrophysicist Neil Gehrels, the lead scientist for SWIFT at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The research, led by Petr Pokorný, Menelaos Sarantos and Diego Janches of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, simulated the variations in meteoroid impacts, revealing surprising patterns in the time of day impacts occur.

Enrico Costa of the Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics in Rome and Gerald Fishman of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, won the astronomy prize for leading the development of space missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictuSpace Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics in Rome and Gerald Fishman of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, won the astronomy prize for leading the development of space missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictuSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, won the astronomy prize for leading the development of space missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictuspace missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictured).

«Mercury is the perfect test object for these experiments because it is so sensitive to the gravitational effect and activity of the Sun,» said Antonio Genova, the lead author of the study published in Nature Communications and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The Aurorasaurus team, led by Liz MacDonald, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conferred to determine the identity of this mysterious phenomspace scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conferred to determine the identity of this mysterious phenomSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conferred to determine the identity of this mysterious phenomenon.

«If you have an indication of the availability of breeding sites,» says David Grass of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, near Washington DC, who led the study, «that's going to bring you one step closer to predicting...

«This will be our first free - flier capture from the space station,» says Dana Weigel, lead flight director for the ISS at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Tspace station,» says Dana Weigel, lead flight director for the ISS at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TSpace Center in Houston, Texas.

The UCL - led study also involved researchers from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Boston University, Observatoire de Paris, MIT, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), University of Southampton, University of Leicester, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and University of Michigan.

«The space shuttle is a highly visible national symbol and a large commitment by the American taxpayers,» Wayne Hale, the space agency's former shuttle chief and STS - 108 lead flight director, said at the time.

Life is extremely unlikely to exist in these subsurface regions of Mercury, however, as pockets of liquid water would be very small, says Gregory Neumann of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a lead author on a second paper.

«This process isn't completely new to space science — electrostatic discharges can occur in any poorly conducting (dielectric) material exposed to intense space radiation, and is actually the leading cause of spacecraft anomalies,» said Timothy Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a co-author of the pspace science — electrostatic discharges can occur in any poorly conducting (dielectric) material exposed to intense space radiation, and is actually the leading cause of spacecraft anomalies,» said Timothy Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a co-author of the pspace radiation, and is actually the leading cause of spacecraft anomalies,» said Timothy Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a co-author of the pSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a co-author of the paper.

«Comets retain a record of conditions from the early solar system, but astronomers think some comets might preserve that history more completely than others,» said Michael DiSanti, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the new study in the Astronomical Journal.

«The composition of WASP - 18b defies all expectations,» said Kyle Sheppard of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, lead author of the paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

By May of this year, a team lead by Neil Gehrels from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, detected the first short burst with the satellite.

«Webb is designed to be able to detect extremely faint and distant targets, but Mars is bright and close,» explained Geronimo Villanueva of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Mars lead on the GTO project.

A study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, led by Charles Ichoku, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, seeks to shed light on the connection.

So is Paul Mahaffy at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who leads the team responsible for the rover's onboard lab, the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument.

Using a high - resolution spectrograph at the Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii and at the Gemini South Telescope in Chile, a team led by Michael Mumma of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center detected methane concentrations in excess of 250 ppbv, varying over the planet and perhaps over time.

Led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the JWST is a large infrared space telescope with a 6.5 - meter foldable mirror and a deployable sunshield the size of a tennis cSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the JWST is a large infrared space telescope with a 6.5 - meter foldable mirror and a deployable sunshield the size of a tennis cspace telescope with a 6.5 - meter foldable mirror and a deployable sunshield the size of a tennis court.

«No one is more concerned about the situation we find ourselves in than I am, and that is why I am reorganizing the JWST Project at Headquarters and the Goddard Space Flight Center, and assigning a new senior manager at Headquarters to lead this important effort,» Bolden said.

«Gravity maps allow us to see inside a planet, just as a doctor uses an X-ray to see inside a patient,» lead author Antonio Genova of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a statement.