It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, but it’s real. NASA scientists will soon launch a mission to change the course of a distant asteroid in a test of technology that could one day save planet Earth from disaster. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship could launch as early as July. It ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 12 May, 2021 | Topics: News | Tags: NASA
On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American — and the second man — to travel in space when he launched a 15-minute, sub-orbital flight aboard NASA’s Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7. (Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had completed one orbit of the Earth on April 12, about three weeks earlier.) Shepard, whose mission ushered ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 3 May, 2021 | Topics: News | Tags: NASA, Space
President Biden is committed to NASA’s multilateral mission to return to the moon and send astronauts to Mars. “Through the Artemis program, the United States government will work with industry and international partners to send astronauts to the surface of the moon,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said February 4, announcing the Biden administration’s ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 9 April, 2021 | Topics: News | Tags: NASA
When NASA engineers need a name for a robotic Mars “rover,” they know where to find creativity. They turn to America’s young people. More than 28,000 students — from kindergarten through 12th grade — submitted names for the rover that landed on Mars last month. It was Alex Mather, a Virginia seventh-grader, who won the ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 29 March, 2021 | Topics: News | Tags: NASA
When NASA’s Perseverance rover searches Mars for signs of ancient life it uses technology from partner nations across Europe. The 2,260-pound (1,025-kilogram) rover is armed with imaging and sensor equipment from France, Italy, Spain and Norway.
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 8 March, 2021 | Topics: News | Tags: Mars, NASA, Science
The U.S. agency that explores outer space is aiding the global fight against climate change. With more than two dozen satellites and other measuring tools, NASA collects massive amounts of environmental data on everything from air pollution to global temperatures. Scientists use that information to better understand climate change and how to slow it.
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 2 March, 2021 | Topics: News | Tags: NASA, Science, Space, Technology
Among those behind one of NASA’s greatest feats of science — collecting samples from a moving asteroid — is a Venezuelan-American immigrant who came to the United States to realize a lifelong dream. This past October, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft took a sample from the asteroid Bennu, the smallest ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 8 February, 2021 | Topics: News, Science & Tech | Tags: NASA
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, representing the United States government, signed a joint statement of intent with Italian Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers Riccardo Fraccaro, representing the Italian government, articulating strong mutual interest between the two countries in pursuing Italian contributions to lunar exploration activities as part of NASA’s Artemis Program. The signing took ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 25 September, 2020 | Topics: News, U.S. & Italy | Tags: NASA
The first edition of Space Apps in northern Italy, in Vicenza, was a smashing success, with 164 participants and 18 teams. Participants included students from local high school, including a group of students from the American high school hosted at the U.S. Army base at Caserma Ederle, who worked with their Italian colleagues to tackle ...
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By U.S. Consulate General Milan | 29 April, 2017 | Topics: Consulate General Milan, U.S. & Italy | Tags: Milan, NASA, Space Apps
Local and regional media attended the event and generated positive coverage of the initiative, brought to Vicenza for the first time ever and organized by the U.S. Consulate General Milan with a pool of local sponsors: the City of Vicenza, the local SMEs association Confartigianato Vicenza, and the University of Vicenza. The event was also ...
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By U.S. Consulate General Milan | 27 April, 2017 | Topics: Consulate General Milan, U.S. & Italy | Tags: Milan, NASA, Space Apps
[...] Collaboration is definitely the key word for this event that brings together people and ideas in Rome, Naples and in more than 170 other cities around the world. Ever since NASA launched this challenge in 2012, the emphasis has been on teamwork and sharing knowledge, valuable lessons we hope participants will gain from this ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 22 April, 2016 | Topics: Former U.S. Ambassadors, Speeches | Tags: Ambassador Phillips, NASA, Science, Space Apps
