Questions pertaining to activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a United States government agency that deals with space exploration and research.
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What impact does the Dec 2018 partial shutdown of the US Federal Government have on current space missions?
Title says it all really? Will the staff operating Curiousity, Insight, Juno, etc. continue to work? What about staff supporting them indirectly?
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What role does the NASA deputy administrator play?
A new deputy NASA administrator, Dava Newman, has been appointed. What is the actual function of a deputy administrator in NASA? What kind of decisions will she be responsible for? And is a deputy likely to become the next top boss?
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How does somebody build a GPS satellite?
What materials and coding would be needed? And what are the necessary instructions should someone follow? I heard that you don’t need to be apart of NASA to build a satellite, but it just costs a lot of money to build and launch it (from NASA’s…
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Were there any submissions to NASA's solicitation for 'Lunar Surface Site Preparation' studies in 2022?
Prompted by a now deleted question about practicalities of operating a SpaceX Starship from unprepared terrain on the moon I found this 2022 solicitation for studies around 'Lunar Surface Site Preparation'. It has a number of interesting resource…
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What is the US government's long term vision for space development and exploration?
The US government created NASA to focus American efforts toward a single goal: put a man on the moon in a non-military context (albeit with mostly military flight crew and inherently military overtones in the goal itself). Having accomplished that…
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How to work at NASA
I guess it might seems like a spam or a troll one, but actually I'm serious. I'm firt year Mechanical engineer (3 and half to go) and I'd love to work there, Since I was young kid I found that space and space exploration are very intersting…
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Are NASA's chase planes ever flown by non-astronauts?
NASA maintains a fleet of T-38 aircraft for training and as a chase plane for spacecraft. When used for that latter role, were the T-38s ever flown by non-astronauts?
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Impact of Fortran in NASA space programs in modern technology?
I was doing some research on the technology behind the Apollo missions and was quite intrigued by how they made the code given the technical limitations of the time. Do any of you know the ways in which people built off the Apollo code to make…
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What typically happens to the Acting NASA Administrator when a full Administrator is approved by the Senate?
The NASA Administrator is the agency's leader, and (along with the Deputy Administrator) is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. It has been common for each President to choose a new Administrator; in the meantime, an Acting…
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How would someone go about proving that every single fact that we know about the universe is really a fact?
I will tell my wife known facts about the universe, and she will then tell me “well that could be fake how do we really know”. Even after explaining all the telescopes and other tools we have to find these facts. She still denies them.
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Why isn't NASA having a ground-based solar panel to charge the Li-ion batteries on board the JPL Mars Helicopter?
Why isn't NASA having a ground-based solar panel to charge the Li-ion batteries on board the JPL Mars Helicopter?
They say that it is going to take a day for the current on-board Solar Panels to charge the batteries. So why not have larger ones on…
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How do NASA staff ask the director questions using "Social Q&A"?
In Scott Manly's new video Updates - JPL Visit, Mars 2020, Moon in 5 Year, EVA Changes, Indian ASAT after about 01:30 he shows a screen shot of some kind of interface of a "Social Q&A" that apparently has questions written by NASA staff for the NASA…
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Will NASA really make a big announcement on November 13th, 2013?
This site says that NASA will release "The Biggest Discovery That will shake the earth, It will never be the same again"
Is it hoax? Is it true? Does anyone here know something about it?
Warning: This website has a questionable domain registrant…
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Does NASA needs ecologists? If yes, whats the salary of an ecologist?
I'm in grade 12 and I'm about to go to Ecology college after this graduation, and I was wondering if nasa needs ecologists or no, and what is the salary for a ecologist.
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Does NASA ever send ecologists into space?
How much does NASA pays…
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Exploration, and research
why Do we have these telescopes to see these galaxy's and stars and we know about the cosmic web way out of our reach we have the technology to see that why not these planets? Is there a way we could use these telescopes or even the satellites to…
