The Progress Pride flag is seen flying at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building, Thursday, June 9, 2022, in Washington, DC. In recognition of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the Progress Pride flag will be flown outside of the agency’s headquarters for the month of June. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky 2022年6月9日，星期四，华盛顿特区，进步骄傲旗在玛丽·杰克逊NASA总部大楼飘扬。为表彰LGBTQ+自豪月，6月份将在NASA总部外悬挂进步骄傲旗。 影像来源：NASA/Joel Kowsky
Flag Day is celebrated on June 14 each year and commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777, by the Second Continental Congress. NASA flies the U.S. flag on its missions throughout our solar system. In this iconic image from the Apollo 11 lunar landing, Commander Neil Armstrong snapped this picture of Buzz Aldrin saluting the flag at Tranquility Base. Learn More Gallery: The American Flag in U.S. Missions Flying High: The Stars and Stripes in Space Image Credit: NASA 每年6月14日是国旗日，纪念1777年6月14日第二届大陆会议通过美国国旗。 NASA在其所有太阳系的任务中都悬挂美国国旗。 在这张阿波罗11号登月的标志性图片中，指挥官尼尔·阿姆斯特朗拍下了巴兹·奥尔德林在宁静基地向国旗致敬的照片。 了解更多信息 画廊：任务中的美国国旗展翅高飞：太空中的星条旗 影像来源：NASA
The Apollo 1 monument at Arlington National Cemetery was dedicated on Thursday, June 2, 2022, in Arlington, Va. The monument honors and memorializes the Apollo 1 crew of Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee. Family members of Apollo 1 astronaut Roger B. Chaffee were joined by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as they placed flowers at the monument during its dedication. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 2022年6月2日，星期四，阿灵顿国家公墓的阿波罗1号纪念碑在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行了纪念仪式。该纪念碑纪念和纪念了维吉尔一世“古斯”格里松、爱德华H.怀特二世和罗杰B.查菲的阿波罗1号机组人员。 阿波罗1号宇航员罗杰·B·查菲的家人与美国宇航局局长比尔·纳尔逊一起在纪念碑献花。 图片来源：NASA/BillIngalls
Dr. Kartik Sheth’s career spans academia, non-profits, and government. For the past seven years, Sheth has been a program scientist in both the Astrophysics and Earth Science Divisions at NASA, overseeing space missions, and research and development programs in cutting-edge technology and working towards some of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. Previously, Dr. Sheth served as the Assistant Director for Research Infrastructures and Science Equity in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President at the White House. There he led a range of activities from oversight of the nation’s science and technology research enterprise, advanced manufacturing, environmental justice and increasing equity with innovative strategy and policy solutions. He was previously the Director for the Office of Diversity…
Nina Wang has more than a decade of experience in financial reporting and analysis, financial statement audits, and internal controls. Currently, she is an accountant in the Data Analysis Branch within the Office of the Chief Financial Officer and on a one-year detail as a Program Analyst in the Resources Management Office within the Space Technology Mission Directorate. Previously, she was a financial statement auditor and financial management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG, respectively. She holds a bachelor of science in accounting and information systems from Virginia Tech, and is a certified project management professional and a certified government financial manager. In addition to supporting the HQ Asian American and Pacific Islander (HAAPI) Employee Resource Group (ERG) Leadership Team, she also serves on the HQ…
Misty Snopkowski is NASA’s program executive for the Commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Development program, which works to create a robust commercial LEO economy by enabling the development of commercially owned and operated LEO destinations. Her responsibilities include the oversight of activities within the Commercial LEO Development Program portfolio. This includes the International Space Station Commercial Module contract with Axiom Space, Commercial LEO Destinations-funded Space Act Agreements with Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrup Grumman, private astronaut missions to the station, and the Commercial Use Policy, which enables commercial and marketing opportunities on the space station. After beginning her aerospace career in aircraft maintenance and repair at AAR Landing Gear Corp., Snopkowski served as an engineer at United Space Alliance (USA) at both the Johnson and Kennedy…
In the early morning hours of April 12, 1981, NASA launched is first Space Transportation System, or space shuttle, mission, carrying astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen into orbit. Mission Commander John Youn had already flown in space four times, including a walk on the Moon in 1972. Bob Crippen, the pilot, was a Navy test pilot who would go on to command three future shuttle missions. But nothing either man had done or would do was quite like this. On that spring morning – just 20 years to the day since Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space – all of that was yet to come. America had not launched a human into space in six years, and to that point every…
Wally Funk delivers remarks after accepting the 2022 Michael Collins Trophy for Lifetime Achievement, Thursday, March 24, 2022, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Michael Collins Trophy recognizes extraordinary accomplishments in aeronautics and spaceflight. Funk was a member of the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATs, also known as the “Mercury 13”). These seven women who once aspired to fly into space stand outside Launch Pad 39B near the Space Shuttle Discovery in this photograph from 1995. The so-called Mercury 13 was a group of women who trained to become astronauts for America’s first human spaceflight program in the early 1960s. Although FLATs was never an official NASA program, the…
The first corned beef sandwich to orbit Earth was smuggled aboard Gemini III on March 23, 1965. As contraband unapproved for flight by NASA, pilot John Young had hidden the sandwich in a pocket of his spacesuit shortly before the launch. Around two hours into the almost five-hour long flight, he offered some to the commander of the mission, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, who accepted the rye bread and preserved meat gift. The exchange over the sandwich lasted less than a minute and ended with Grissom putting the unfinished sandwich away in his own spacesuit pocket so the breadcrumbs that were breaking off would be less likely to float behind an instrument panel or into one of the astronaut’s eyes. The approved food for the flight,…
In this image from August 2021, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei sits and reads while aboard the International Space Station. Vande Hei made it into record books on Tuesday, March 15, 2022: He broke the record for the most consecutive days in space by an American explorer. Vande Hei arrived at the space station on April 9, 2021, and is expected to return home March 30, 2022, after spending 355 days in low-Earth orbit. This duration breaks the previous record, held by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, by 15 days. His then-crewmate Thomas Pesquet, who snapped the picture, said: “If you are reading this sitting down, maybe on a sofa or couch, consider that we will not sit down… until we are back on Earth! Of…
