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In this episode streamed on June 19, 2019, we talk about our plans to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024 and how exploring the Moon will help us prepare to send humans to Mars.
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We thank Ohio’s members of Congress for paying tribute to Neil Armstrong by renaming NASA’s Plum Brook Station in his honor. Armstrong began his career at NASA Glenn and went on to inspire generations of scientists, engineers, and explorers. We are proud to share the name of the first person to walk on the Moon. We look forward to working with the members’ respective offices on plans to unveil the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility in the near future and will provide additional details on those plans when available. The facility is located on 6,400 acres in…
Derrol Nail: When instrumentation controller JoAnn Morgan was in Firing Room number One for the historic moonshot in 1969, she was the only woman. NASA has come a long way since. Today, the very same firing room is led by a woman, and 30% of the engineers supporting NASA’s Artemis Moon program are women, too. So, what’s it like to be a woman with a career in STEM today? We’ll sit down with three female employees at NASA to find out. I’m Derrol Nail and that’s next on The Rocket Ranch. Launch Countdown Sequence: EGS Program Chief Engineer, verify…
NASA’s C-130 Hercules, fondly known as the Herc, went wheels up at 9:45 a.m., Friday, April 18, as it departed from its decade-long home at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, for the final time. The aircraft is embarking on a new adventure to serve and protect in the state of California where it is now under the ownership of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE). The transition of the C-130 to CAL FIRE is part of a long-running, NASA-wide aircraft enterprise-management activity to consolidate the aircraft fleet and achieve greater operational efficiencies while reducing the…