WebNASA WorldWind is an open-source (released under the NOSA license and the Apache 2.0 license) virtual globe. According to the website (https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/), "WorldWind is an open source virtual globe API. WorldWind allows developers to quickly and easily create interactive visualizations of 3D globe, map and geographical information.

WebThe Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the highest-ranking official of NASA, the national space agency of the United States. The administrator is NASA's chief decision maker, responsible for providing clarity to the agency's vision and serving as a source of internal leadership within NASA.

WebNASA Astronaut Group 2, also known as the Next Nine and the New Nine, was the second group of astronauts selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Their selection was announced on September 17, 1962. The group augmented the Mercury Seven.President John F. Kennedy had announced Project Apollo, on May 25, 1961, with …

WebDas NASA-Weltraumspiel (Original: NASA-Game) ist ein bekanntes Planspiel, das Mitte der 70er-Jahre eine hohe Verbreitung hatte und große Popularität erlangte.. Die Autoren und die Herkunft des Spieles sind nicht bekannt. Die Spielanleitung und der Spielbogen wird in vielen Fachbüchern, Seminarunterlagen und im Internet frei verbreitet. Das NASA …

WebThe Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect, collisional cascading, or ablation cascade), proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) due to space pollution is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates …

WebThe NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal is awarded to US government employees only for notably outstanding leadership which affects technical or administrative programs of NASA.The leadership award may be given for an act of leadership, for sustained contributions based on a leader's effectiveness, for the productivity of the leader's …

WebThe crawler-transporter has a mass of 2,721 tonnes (6 million pounds; 2,999 short tons) and has eight tracks, two on each corner. A separate laser docking system provides pinpoint accuracy when the crawler-transporter and Mobile Launch Platform are positioned in the VAB or at the launch pad. A team of nearly 30 engineers, technicians and drivers operate …

WebThe NASA Pathfinder and NASA Pathfinder Plus were the first two aircraft developed as part of an evolutionary series of solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. AeroVironment, Inc. developed the vehicles under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) program. They were built to develop …

WebLe Dust Bowl (« bassin de poussière ») est une région à cheval sur l'Oklahoma, le Kansas et le Texas, touchée dans les années 1930 par la sècheresse et une série de tempêtes de poussière provoquant une catastrophe écologique et agricole. On nomme la période correspondante les Dirty Thirties.. Ces tempêtes de poussière sont issues de pratiques …

WebPillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, in the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 light-years (2,000–2,100 pc; 61–66 Em) from Earth. They are named so because the gas and dust are in the process of creating new stars, while also being …

WebNOAA-19, known as NOAA-N' (NOAA-N Prime) before launch, is the last of the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) series of weather satellites. NOAA-19 was launched on 6 February 2009. NOAA-19 is in an afternoon Sun-synchronous orbit and is intended to replace NOAA-18 as the prime afternoon spacecraft.

WebThe Boeing X-48 is an American experimental unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built to investigate the characteristics of blended wing body (BWB) aircraft. Boeing designed the X-48 and two examples were built by Cranfield Aerospace in the UK. Boeing began flight testing the X-48B version for NASA in 2007. The X-48B was later modified into the X-48C …

WebThe NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (NASA IRTF) is a 3-meter (9.8 ft) telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.It was first built to support the Voyager missions and is now the US national facility for infrared astronomy, providing continued support to planetary, solar neighborhood, and …

WebGeplante Mondlandungen. Für die 2020er Jahre planen unter anderem Indien, Südkorea und Japan sowie Privatunternehmen aus mehreren Ländern unbemannte Mondlandungen.. In den USA ist mit dem Artemis-Programm der NASA ein Nachfolgeprojekt zu Apollo in Vorbereitung, das unter optimistischen Annahmen eine erste Landung für 2024 mit der …