Tag: NASA

NASA scientist to guest lecture at S&T

Posted by on October 30, 2013

Former NASA scientist Dr. Kathryn Clark will speak about her experiences with leadership at NASA in an open lecture at Missouri S&T in November. She will discuss what qualities make a good leader and what makes a great one. Clark’s lecture, titled “Find it, fix it, fly: Leadership and NASA Disasters,” will begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets in Rolla. The event is free and open to the public, however tickets will be required.

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Researchers study ways to make stronger materials in 3-D

Posted by on September 17, 2013

Aided by funding from NASA and using methods similar to 3-D printing, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are running computer simulations of processes that could lead to stronger, more durable materials for the space agency.

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Ph.D. candidate Andrew Brune receives NASA Space Technology Fellowship

Posted by on September 10, 2013

Andrew Brune of St. Charles, Mo., a Ph.D. student in aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is one of 65 graduate students in the United States to be named a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow for 2013.

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Researchers get NASA funding to study how to propel and control tiny spacecraft

Posted by on August 2, 2013

NASA hopes to expand scientific understanding of the Earth and the universe, but current small satellites that gather vital information can’t be controlled once they’ve been released into space. Two researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology think they may have discovered a fix for the problem.

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NASA astronaut tells new S&T grads that ‘the sky is not the limit’

Posted by on May 5, 2012

Commence_thumb.jpgNASA astronaut Sandra Magnus delivered two commencement addresses at Missouri University of Science and Technology, May 4 and May 5. She told the new graduates that “the sky is not the limit, trust me.”

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NASA astronaut to speak at S&T’s commencement ceremonies

Posted by on April 20, 2012

NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus will be the commencement speaker during two graduation ceremonies at Missouri University of Science and Technology this spring.

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S&T grad to be on last shuttle mission

Posted by on July 11, 2011

The last space shuttle flight ever is scheduled to launch July 8, and a Missouri S&T grad is an important part of the mission. “It will only take about 8.5 minutes to get into our initial orbit,” says NASA Astronaut Sandra Magnus. “But it’s an exciting 8.5 minutes!”

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Students to launch rocket in NASA competition

Posted by on April 14, 2009

A group of students at Missouri University of Science and Technology is preparing to send a 10-foot rocket one mile into the sky and return it safely to the ground.

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S&T grad to blog from space

Posted by on November 10, 2008

NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus, a Missouri University of Science and Technology graduate, is scheduled to launch into orbit aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on Nov. 14. The space shuttle will drop Magnus off at the International Space Station for a four-month stay, during which time she will be contributing to a Missouri S&T blog aimed at getting more kids interested in science.

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Reaching for the stars

Posted by on August 30, 2005

It’s become an American cliche, the familiar answer to a question asked of American schoolkids everywhere in the 1960s and ’70s. What do you want to be when you grow up? the teacher would ask. The less inspired among us would recite the usual answers: firefighters, doctors, police officers. But there were always other children […]

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