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Engineers and technicians moved the Orion service module test article into the Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility at NASA Glenn Research Center’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio on Friday, April 8. Acoustic testing is scheduled to begin April 18. The blue structure sitting on top of the test article is a mass simulator that represents the Orion crew module.
The test article will be blasted with at least 152 decibels and 20-10,000 hertz of sound pressure and vibration to simulate the intense sounds the Orion service module will be subjected to during launch and ascent into space atop the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. This is part of a series of tests to verify the structural integrity of Orion’s service module for Exploration Mission-1, the spacecraft’s first flight atop SLS.
Provided by ESA (European Space Agency) and built by Airbus Defence and Space, the service module will power, propel and cool the vehicle and also supply it with air and water.
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Seth Green (actor), Clare Grant (his wife and actress), with colleagues Michael Dougherty (screenwriter), Tom Root (writer, producer), and Josh Troke view global climate models and data with NASA Goddard experts in the NASA Center for Climate Simulation on Tuesday, May 24, 2011.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo
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This image, acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows the glaciers of Sierra de Sangra on Jan. 14, 2015. Snow and ice are blue in these false-color images, which use different wavelengths to better differentiate areas of ice, rock, and vegetation. via NASA ift.tt/1T4g2qg
Yesterday NASA successfully landed the rover Curiosity on the surface of Mars. It is another amazing achievement and a cause for celebration. Click on the links below for more on this mission and the latest images from Mars. Taken with a Canon 60mm USM Macro lens. Type L for a better view.
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
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One more for all the computer geeks and Mac lovers.
www.lowendmac.com/lab/12lab/macs-in-space.html
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Team leaders Steven Christe and Jessica Gaskin working on aligning the X-ray optics using a laser source.
Credit: NASA/Albert Shih
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In Ft. Sumner, N.M., a team of scientists is readying a giant balloon -- and a 5,015-pound telescope – for launch in mid-September 2013. During its flight some 25 miles up in the sky, the balloon, called HEROES, for High Energy Replicated Optics to Explore the Sun, will carry a hard X-ray telescope with a two-part job. During the day, the telescope will observe the sun. It will record imagery of giant bursts of radiation and light on the sun called solar flares with 10 times better resolution than the best solar observations to date in these wavelengths. At night, the telescope will turn its focus toward other stars, collecting X-ray data from astrophysical sources such as the crab Nebula. The hard X-ray sky is relatively unexplored, especially at high resolution.
The HEROES mission is funded by NASA's Hands-On Project Experience, or HOPE, Training Opportunity award, an honor designed to promote achievement among America's newest ranks of space scientists and engineers. HEROES is led by Jessica Gaskin, an astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Steven Christe, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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These are some images of Shuttle Atlantis as it was mated to the 747 at Edwards Air Force Base in California on May 31, 2009. This was prior to leaving Edwards on the morning of June 1 on the way to Biggs Army Air Field in El Paso, Texas.
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John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602j john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov Ed Campion Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0697 edward.s.campion@nasa.gov July 28, 2008 MEDIA ADVISORY : M08-138 NASA Sets Briefings for Hubble Space Telescope Shuttle Mission HOUSTON -- NASA will hold a series of news media briefings Sept. 8 - 9 to preview the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of the briefings from the Johnson Space Center and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Questions also will be taken from other participating NASA locations. Shuttle Atlantis' 11-day flight, designated STS-125, is targeted for launch Oct. 8 and will include five spacewalks to refurbish and upgrade the telescope with state-of-the-art science instruments. Replacing failed hardware on Hubble will extend the telescope's life into the next decade. U.S. news media planning to attend the briefings at Johnson must contact the newsroom there at 281-483-5111 by Sept. 2 to arrange for credentials. All reporters who are foreign nationals must contact the newsroom by Aug. 8. On Sept. 9, Atlantis' seven astronauts will be available for round-robin interviews at Johnson. Reporters planning to participate in-person or by phone must contact Gayle Frere at 281-483-8645 by Sept. 2 to reserve an interview opportunity. Scott Altman will command Atlantis' crew, which includes Pilot Gregory C. Johnson, and Mission Specialists Andrew Feustel, Michael Good, John Grunsfeld, Megan McArthur and Mike Massimino. The spacewalkers are Good, Grunsfeld, Feustel and Massimino. McArthur is the flight engineer and lead for robotic arm operations. Along with the briefings to preview the Hubble servicing mission at Johnson, media will have an opportunity during the afternoon of Sept. 8 to review new equipment being developed for NASA's Constellation Program. Constellation is building America's next human spacecraft, which will fly astronauts to low Earth orbit, the moon and beyond. During the review, media will see items that include concepts of a new spacesuit, a pressurized rover vehicle for astronauts, and a mockup of the Orion crew capsule. The schedule (all times are CDT) includes: Monday, Sept. 8 7 a.m. - Video B-Roll Feed 8 a.m. - NASA Overview Briefing (from Goddard) 9 a.m. - Shuttle Program Overview Briefing (from Johnson) 10 a.m. - HST/SM 4 Program Overview (from Goddard) 11:30 a.m. - NASA TV Video File Noon - HST/SM4 Science Overview (from Goddard) 1:30 p.m. - HST Program and Science Round-Robins (from Goddard; not on NASA TV) 1:30 p.m. - Constellation Program Preview (from Johnson, not on NASA TV) Tuesday, Sept. 9 8 a.m. - Video B-Roll Feed 9 a.m. - STS-125 Mission Overview (from Johnson) 10:30 a.m. - STS-125 Spacewalk Overview (from Johnson) Noon - NASA TV Video File 1 p.m. - STS-125 Crew News Conference (from Johnson) 2 - 6 p.m. - STS-125 Crew Round-Robins (from Johnson; not on NASA TV) For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit:
NASA Co-Op Jennifer Turner and NASA engineer Kody Ensley from Johnson Space Center spent three days interacting with the public and educating them about robots!
This year I watched a Space Shuttle launch with my students live, blogged and tweeted live from the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour, and then watched the final launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis and of the shuttle program at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. Yes, this was a year of space. I've met amazing friends, teachers, and supporters of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education) and can only say that the best gift you can give your students is to inspire them to reach for the stars. Expose them to all of the amazing careers and things to learn about in the world of STEM. Wishing you all PEACE on EARTH and in space.... (www.venspired.com)
Credit: The orginal shuttle photo is from NASA-HQ on Flickr. Christmas decor added by me. :)
Pluto’s haze layer shows its blue color in this picture taken by the New Horizons Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The high-altitude haze is thought to be similar in nature to that seen at Saturn’s moon Titan. This image was generated by software that combines information from blue, red and near-infrared images. via NASA ift.tt/1Rw44Bz
An attendee at a NASA Social tweets on her cell phone at a NASA Social exploring science on the ISS at NASA Headquarters, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)
NASA ASTRONAUT JOSEPH ACABA, FLIGHT ENGINEER ON EXPEDITIONS 31/32, VISITS GODDARD in the Bldg. 3 Goett Auditorium. Joseph Acaba, the first astronaut of Puerto Rican descent, shares his extraordinary spaceflight experiences with the Goddard community. Acaba signed autographs after the presentation.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Bill Hrybyk
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Two remarkable global maps of Jupiter's banded cloud tops can be compared by just sliding your cursor over this sharp projection (or follow this link) of image data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Both captured on January 19, during back-to-back 10 hour rotations of the ruling gas giant, the all-planet projections represent the first in a series of planned annual portraits by the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program. Comparing the two highlights cloud movements and measures wind speeds in the planet's dynamic atmosphere. In fact, the Great Red Spot, the famous long-lived swirling storm boasting 300 mile per hour winds, is seen sporting a rotating, twisting filament. The images confirm that Great Red Spot is still shrinking, though still larger than planet Earth. Posing next to it (lower right) is Oval BA, also known as Red Spot Junior. via NASA go.nasa.gov/1OZjf6y
Lateral Side. Describe the possible simple machines that we have been studying during the last few days.
NASA Sets Briefings for Hubble Space Telescope Shuttle Mission
HOUSTON -- NASA will hold a series of news media briefings Sept. 8 - 9 to preview the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of the briefings from the Johnson Space Center and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Questions also will be taken from other participating NASA locations.
Shuttle Atlantis' 11-day flight, designated STS-125, is targeted for launch Oct. 8 and will include five spacewalks to refurbish and upgrade the telescope with state-of-the-art science instruments. Replacing failed hardware on Hubble will extend the telescope's life into the next decade.
U.S. news media planning to attend the briefings at Johnson must contact the newsroom there at 281-483-5111 by Sept. 2 to arrange for credentials. All reporters who are foreign nationals must contact the newsroom by Aug. 8.
On Sept. 9, Atlantis' seven astronauts will be available for round-robin interviews at Johnson. Reporters planning to participate in-person or by phone must contact Gayle Frere at 281-483-8645 by Sept. 2 to reserve an interview opportunity.
Scott Altman will command Atlantis' crew, which includes Pilot Gregory C. Johnson, and Mission Specialists Andrew Feustel, Michael Good, John Grunsfeld, Megan McArthur and Mike Massimino. The spacewalkers are Good, Grunsfeld, Feustel and Massimino. McArthur is the flight engineer and lead for robotic arm operations.
Along with the briefings to preview the Hubble servicing mission at Johnson, media will have an opportunity during the afternoon of Sept. 8 to review new equipment being developed for NASA's Constellation Program. Constellation is building America's next human spacecraft, which will fly astronauts to low Earth orbit, the moon and beyond. During the review, media will see items that include concepts of a new spacesuit, a pressurized rover vehicle for astronauts, and a mockup of the Orion crew capsule.
The schedule (all times are CDT) includes:
Monday, Sept. 8
7 a.m. - Video B-Roll Feed
8 a.m. - NASA Overview Briefing (from Goddard)
9 a.m. - Shuttle Program Overview Briefing (from Johnson)
10 a.m. - HST/SM 4 Program Overview (from Goddard)
11:30 a.m. - NASA TV Video File
Noon - HST/SM4 Science Overview (from Goddard)
1:30 p.m. - HST Program and Science Round-Robins (from Goddard; not on NASA TV)
1:30 p.m. - Constellation Program Preview (from Johnson, not on NASA TV)
NASA ASTRONAUT JOSEPH ACABA, FLIGHT ENGINEER ON EXPEDITIONS 31/32, VISITS GODDARD in the Bldg. 3 Goett Auditorium. Joseph Acaba, the first astronaut of Puerto Rican descent, shares his extraordinary spaceflight experiences with the Goddard community. Acaba signed autographs after the presentation.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Bill Hrybyk
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Visual Science Storytelling
Wade Sisler is the executive television producer at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and he has also worked at NASA HQ and the Ames Research Center in California. Trained in journalism at Baylor University and Scientific and Technical Still Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, he began working at NASA Ames in the mid ‘80s while finishing up his degree at RIT, and he says he never looked back. These days, Sisler is heavily involved in what he calls “Visual Science Storytelling.”
Sisler and other NASA Center employees around the nation use the discipline of television and video graphics to tell the story of projects, research, and missions created and managed by their particular center. The video, animation, and multimedia products they produce are for a variety of audiences both public and internally within the agency, and some of this content is also broadcast on NASA TV.
DCP: What brought you to NASA, and can you tell me a little about the background of video production at Goddard?
Sisler: For me, NASA was a great place because every time you turned over a rock, a mind-blowing story and often wonderful visual opportunity would crawl out. I liked that there were many new challenges and that many of the things I was to document had never been captured before. By the late ‘80s, I was dabbling in emerging multimedia, digital photography, and video, and while I hated the quality of the video image, I loved being able to go deeper into a story. Eventually, painfully, I made the shift to video and television just as the tools became affordable to small groups like the one we had at Ames. We felt lucky to be shooting on 3/4in. tape and were thrilled to eventually upgrade to Beta and then BetacamSP.
I transferred to NASA HQ in 1994 and then came to Goddard in 1997. At HQ, I worked on the IMAX films Mission to Mir and [Space Station 3D], and I also worked on projects with NASA TV.
How is Goddard different when it comes to the kinds of things you document with video?
When I came to Goddard, I found my true niche in scientific storytelling. Working here is a curious person's dream come true. The 9,000-plus scientists and engineers are literally changing the way humans see the universe and changing world we live in. NASA science provides insights into some of the most pressing problems and biggest questions of the day. Communicating the results of our missions is now woven into the DNA of our agency, and I think our team feels lucky to be working with an organization so passionate about sharing their story with the widest possible audience.
What are the main aspects of what you do?
There are really four main areas of challenge:
Visual science storytelling — translating complex stories with pictures, sound, and video
Creating or capturing absolutely compelling core content
Making that content widely available in multiple formats and multiple distribution channels
Doing all of the above very efficiently.
You've seen a lot of changes in the visual tools you use.
Sure. These days, the quality of the image is not an issue, of course. We now have end-to-end HD and shoot on Panasonic P2 and Varicam. A great deal of our work these days involves working with and directing animation and data visualization. Most of our important images are no longer shot with cameras, but are captured by satellites or are rendered in our visualizers' minds.
Interesting. And how do you share that content?
The biggest challenge we see is the fragmentation of the production/media world. We consider our customers to be a continuous spectrum of traditional print and broadcast media, web media portals, educators and students, museums, scientists, stakeholders — and, of course, the general public. The user community is fragmenting as the new media world carves up distribution channels into narrower and narrower slices. This fragmentation means that there are many more users creating many more products with our core content.
Can you describe the process of distribution?
Let's say we're producing material to illustrate the NASA mission objectives of a new kind of climate-observing satellite. Our work plan would usually call for creation of an animation illustrating the satellite at work. We would show it in action and illustrate how it works. We might also create contextual animation to help folks visualize the science behind the mission. Our producer will make sure to capture a few signature sequences that define a project.
These days, momentum has shifted to creating two- to three-minute reporter packages that can be used on places like NASA TV, web portals, and distributed via iTunes. The second part of our strategy is actively producing resource collections, which can be obtained via our fulfillment house or, increasingly, directly via online download.
Has HD and Internet streaming made inroads at Goddard?
HD has more than made inroads. Everything is HD. Even satellites are beginning to deliver HD. We've been shooting almost all HD for the past two years. It has been a little reach, but because we have such a high rate of reusing previous footage, it's been worth it. When the Solar Dynamics Observatory is launched next year, it will be sending down an HD image of the sun every second. Here comes the sun! We'll see all of the incoming space weather as never before. As far as web streaming goes, the new NASA portal will stream content and allow users to pull it down on demand. To get the uncompressed satellite footage and animations, producers will still need to go to the home centers like Goddard and JPL.
Can you tell me anything about Goddard’s work with stereo video?
We are working stereo video, but not with traditional cameras, for the most part. We do some work with the stereo pair of solar observatories. They produce essentially right-left eye images and we conducted our first press conference using the 3D images last April.
When NASA TV wants/needs programming from Goddard, is the footage sent via the WAN or via tape or hard drive, or another way?
We can send it via the WAN or directly via fiber. Goddard, like HQ and some of the other centers, is very connected to the various backbones. We conduct interviews with the networks and cable news outlet directly via the Bell Atlantic AVOC [a dedicated satellite two-way feed].
What can you tell me about the Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center?
The Scientific Visualization Studio [SVS] turns raw satellite data into images. But this is much more than translating numbers to pixels. Frequently, these folks combine data from many satellites and sensors into a single comprehensive story. The mission of the SVS is to facilitate scientific inquiry and outreach within NASA programs through visualization. All the visualizations created by the SVS [currently totaling more than 2,700] are accessible to everyone through the website. More recent animations are provided as MPEG-1s and MPEG-2s. Some animations are available in high definition as well as standard NTSC format. Where possible, the original digital images used to make these animations have also been made accessible. Lastly, high- and low-resolution stills, created from the visualizations, are included, with previews for selective downloading [see svs.gsfc.nasa.gov].
Eric de Jong at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab is probably the unofficial leader on 3D within the agency. He has done quite a bit of 3D camera data viz work. Visit him at science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/deJong.
If there was one thing you’d like to share about digital multimedia content creation at Goddard, what would it be?
Our goal, and our mini slogan: One message, in many formats, through many channels, for many users!
—T.P.M
nasa 1 and 3 along with 2 dodx tankers and some sort of hardware flat lay unused at nasa's repair facility. I looked for the helium tanks but couldn't find them, i know they still use them for space x launches.
A view of the moon and a winter sunset over the main building complex at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Brooke Boen
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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson testifies before the Senate Appropriations’ Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee during a hearing on NASA’s budget request, Tuesday, June 15, 2021, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Boeing 747SP N747NA "SOFIA" at Christchurch Airport. After the final departure from Christchurch, SOFIA performed a low level fly by with wing wave, before heading back to California via Honolulu.
This is inside NASA's supersonic wind tunnel. When the tunnel is running the wind going toward my camera is moving 1.5 mach. Models are put into the airstream where our tour guide is standing. Lots of data is collected from inside the tunnel, and on the model, and fed into systems via the patch panel seen here.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of small island cays in the Bahamas and the prominent tidal channels cutting between them. For astronauts, this is one of the most recognizable points on the planet. via NASA ift.tt/1MEuGRY
Typical payload for Shuttle cargo hold.
It's huge!
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA's space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on April 12, 1981 and continued to set high marks of achievement and endurance through 30 years of missions. Starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, the spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered and repaired satellites, conducted cutting-edge research and built the largest structure in space, the International Space Station. The final space shuttle mission, STS-135, ended July 21, 2011 when Atlantis rolled to a stop at its home port, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The goal of this group is to encourage people to re-interpret and remix the great photo libarary NASA has released into the public domain. Please take this photo Remix It, make a Mashup by combing this photos with other images or textures and reinvent it into a new piece of art. Go ahead give it a try, its fun! Then post your artwork to the group pool. To view some of the best images in the group you can view our stream on flickr river. If your up for a challenge we host remix competitions every month on our discussion forum.
Radar imagery such as this will help the EVEX team decide when to launch. The radar here shows clear skies over Kwajalein – the atoll is the "florida-shaped" coral atoll in the top left of the display.
The window for the EVEX launch is from April 27 to May 10, 2013. The research goal is to study whether turbulence at sunset in the E-region (60 miles up above the ground) of the ionosphere could serve as a warning sign of the storms that happen in the higher F-region (120 to 240 miles up) an hour or two later. So the team will wait for an evening when ground based radars show the necessary turbulence in the E-region.
Doug Rowland, an EVEX team member at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Reported on April 22, 2013:
“The Illinois radar (IRIS) is showing very nice examples of the precursor ‘sunset layer’ that is a signature of the circulation pattern we are trying to study, as well as the full-blown instability that develops over the hour and a half following sunset. We continue to have cloudy skies and elevated winds, which are problematic for a launch, but we still have three weeks for the weather to shape up for the EVEX launch.”
IRIS and the ARPA Long-Range Tracking and Instrumentation Radar (ALTAIR) will provide simultaneous measurements of the ionosphere during the EVEX launch to better characterize the region.
Credit: NASA
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A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch from an atoll in the Pacific this spring. The mission will help scientists better understand and predict the electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere that can negatively affect satellite communication and global positioning signals.
The mission, called EVEX, for the Equatorial Vortex Experiment, will launch into a crucial layer of charged particles surrounding our planet. Called the ionosphere, this layer serves as the medium through which high frequency radio waves – such as those sent down to the ground by global positioning system (GPS) satellites or, indeed, any satellite communicating with Earth – travel. The ionosphere begins about 60 miles above the ground and is filled with electrons and ions, alongside the more familiar extension of our electrically neutral atmosphere. Governed by Earth’s magnetic field, high-altitude winds, and incoming material and energy from the sun, the ionosphere can be calm in certain places or times of day, and quite turbulent at others.
EVEX will launch two rockets for a twelve-minute journey through the equatorial ionosphere above the South Pacific. This area of the ionosphere is known for calm days and tempestuous evenings, times when the ionosphere becomes rippled like a funhouse mirror, disturbing radio signals, and introducing GPS errors of a half mile or more. The two rockets will measure events in two separate regions of the ionosphere to see how they work together to drive the ionosphere from placid and smooth to violently disturbed. Such information could ultimately lead to the ability to accurately forecast this important aspect of space weather.
The launch window for EVEX is from April 27 to May 10. The team will decide when to fly based on conditions in the ionosphere on any given night.
Read more at www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/news/evex.html
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A few months ago, Moises sent me some pictures of this place and I was shocked to see practically all of NASA's oldies sitting here. I completely forgot NASA had this second yard so a few weeks later, my brother and I went to check it out. Most of the trucks look to be in decent shape for just sitting so that's good. In fact, when we went to the main yard a few minutes later, we even saw one of the 310 Heils pulling in! Haven't been out here since April so not sure what's been moved around.
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NASA ASTRONAUT JOSEPH ACABA, FLIGHT ENGINEER ON EXPEDITIONS 31/32, VISITS GODDARD in the Bldg. 3 Goett Auditorium. Joseph Acaba, the first astronaut of Puerto Rican descent, shares his extraordinary spaceflight experiences with the Goddard community. Acaba signed autographs after the presentation.
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With 14 electric motors turning propellers and all of them integrated into a uniquely-designed wing, NASA will test new propulsion technology using an experimental airplane now designated the X-57 and nicknamed “Maxwell.” This concept image illustrates NASA's X-57 plane in flight. via NASA ift.tt/1sJCEBk