ASHLAND, Ore. – ScienceWorks is inviting a senior NASA scientist to speak about their work on the Mars Curiosity rover this week. The project scientist for the Curiosity rover, Ashwin Vasavada will speak about his years working at NASA’s Jet ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – A group of local high school students attended an astronomy talk with a NASA engineer on Thursday. Matt Heverly a jet propulsion laboratory robotics engineer for NASA visited North Medford High School. He shared his experience with ...
ASHLAND, Ore. – ScienceWorks hosted an Artemis splashdown watch party to celebrate the completion of NASA’s newest mission around the moon. After the live stream, there was a guest presentation by NASA ambassador Colin White. He talked about the future ...
ASHLAND, Ore. – Scienceworks museum is getting ready to welcome the Artemis mission’s Orion space capsule back to Earth. This Sunday at 10 a.m. the Ashland kids museum is organizing a video presentation about the mission and showcasing its footage ...
Author: Devon Haskins (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Kayla Barron, 34, never dreamed of becoming an astronaut. After graduating from Richland High School in Richland, Wash., Barron attended the Naval Academy and served aboard a naval submarine. It wasn’t until ...
FRENCH GUIANA – The highly-anticipated launch of a new generation of space telescopes has been pushed back to Christmas Day because of expected bad weather. The James Webb Space Telescope should replace the Hubble Space Telescope as the world’s most ...
ASHLAND, Ore. — Can you imagine helping scientists with research at NASA? An undergrad student from Southern Oregon University is doing just that. Last month, Jack Diab, an incoming senior at SOU has been working remotely with NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
(NBC) – Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins has died. He was 90 years old. Collins, one of the three members of the successful Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in 1969, died Wednesday after battling cancer. His family said he ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (NBC) – It was a successful launch Friday morning for SpaceX and its Falcon 9 rocket. Shortly before 6:00 EST, four astronauts from three countries lifted off from Kennedy Space Center en route to the International ...
HAWTHORNE, Calif. (CNN) – SpaceX has won a major contract to help deliver America’s next moonshot. The rocket company led by Elon Musk has clinched an almost $3 billion deal with NASA. The agency will use a spacecraft being developed ...