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NASA Kennedy’s Applied Chemistry Lab Achieves Agency First

November 8, 2024

Jason Costa

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has a long record of achievements in sustainability and recently added another to the list when the spaceport’s Applied Chemistry Lab became the first in the agency to be certified for its environmentally conscious practices. The My Green Lab Certification recognizes sustainability best practices in research facilities around the…
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NASA, Universities Take Learning Out of Classroom

July 15, 2024

Elyna N. Niles-Carnes

There’s no “I” in team, and that holds true for NASA and its partners as the agency ramps up efforts to recruit tenured professors to research science for a semester at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The tenured teachers work for up to a year in an area where the agency needs specific…
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IPEx Autonomy Testing

March 1, 2024

Danielle Sempsrott

Harsh, low-angle sunlight, long and dark shadows, and a featureless terrain will make navigation difficult when NASA’s ISRU Pilot Excavator (IPEx) is sent to the Moon. Because of this, the IPEx team has begun testing various approaches to autonomously drive the excavator in a specially constructed rock yard that mimics these environmental conditions. The team…
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Statement from NASA’s Jennifer Kunz at SpaceCom, 50th Space Congress

February 1, 2024

Patricia A. Bielling

Jennifer Kunz, associate director technical of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, released the following statement after speaking Thursday at the SpaceCom / 50th Space Congress in Orlando, Florida. “NASA’s Moon to Mars strategy rests on three pillars: pursuing science to better understand the universe and our origins; inspiring the next generation to achieve the…
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Kennedy Space Center Looks Ahead to a Busy Year in 2024

December 21, 2023

Jamie Groh

Another jam-packed year is in store for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as the momentum of a busy 2023 is carried forward into the new year. On the horizon are missions to the Moon, more crew and cargo flights to the International Space Station, and several upgrade projects across the spaceport. NASA’s first CLPS…
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NASA Facility Builds on Space Station Legacy at Kennedy

December 14, 2023

Jason Costa

Built to be the last stop for components of the International Space Station, the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, has been given a new name that honors this legacy while embracing its role as a multi-tenant processing facility. Agency officials have updated the name of the 457,000 square…
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NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Top 20 Stories of 2023

December 13, 2023

Jim Cawley

Here’s a look back at 2023’s most significant events at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida: JANUARYDay of Remembrance Marks 20th Anniversary of Columbia Tragedy NASA senior management and guests paid tribute to the crew members of space shuttle Columbia, as well as other astronauts who perished in the line of duty, during the agency’s…
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NASA Kennedy’s Applied Chemistry Lab Achieves Agency First

NASA, Universities Take Learning Out of Classroom

IPEx Autonomy Testing

Statement from NASA’s Jennifer Kunz at SpaceCom, 50th Space Congress

Kennedy Space Center Looks Ahead to a Busy Year in 2024

NASA Facility Builds on Space Station Legacy at Kennedy

NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Top 20 Stories of 2023

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