As the daughter of two biologists, Shona “Robin” Elgart grew up in an environment made for a budding scientist. Now, as NASA prepares to send the first woman
school, earning her Ph.D. in biomedical physics from the University of California, Los
Week of May 16 – May 20, 2016
the California Science Center will take it through the neighborhood streets of Los
Measurements from space support wildfire risk predictions
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 data showing carbon dioxide concentrations in Los
Meet one of the key members of the launch team:
from Purdue University Hometown: I was born in Columbia, South Carolina, lived in Los
Two NASA astronauts are gearing up this week for the first spacewalk of the year at the International Space Station. The Expedition 72 crew members also started the week working on botany, combustion, and human research and practicing departing the orbital outpost.
Gears Up for Spacewalk, Conducts Research and Training City lights illuminate the Los
As the wildfire rages in Southern California, an Earth-observing instrument aboard the International Space Station was able to measure its heat and dark smoke
fires merged and rapidly grew in the hot conditions in Riverside County, east of Los
Join professionals from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Los Angeles Department
Kjell Lindgren is commander of the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the Crew-4 mission. He is responsible for all phases of flight, from launch to re-entry, and will serve as an Expedition 67 flight engineer aboard the station. This will be Lindgren’s second spaceflight since becoming an astronaut in 2009. In 2015, he spent 141 days …
at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and the University of California, Los
Hernan Posada knew as a child that he wanted to be a pilot and now he is one at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in
Posada earned an aerospace engineering technology degree from Northrop University in Los
A Match Made on a High-Altitude Balloon. A Recent World View Flight Pairs Compatible Radiation Sensors for Mutual Benefit
Space Environment Technologies and the University of Southern California both in Los
