Alabama High School Student Names NASA’s Mars Helicopter.

Tag: High School Student Opportunity. The students submitting the winning entries will be the guests of honor at the OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Contest awards ceremony in May 2013. While there, the winners will receive the OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Contest trophy and have the opportunity to meet NASA VIPs, astronauts and actor Peter Cullen, who.

The LEGO Group teamed with the Planetary Society and NASA’s Mars Public Engagement Program to execute a NASA contest to name the Mars Exploration Rovers. NASA selected the names “Spirit” and “Opportunity” through a student essay contest that drew nearly 10,000 entries.

The 2013 edition of the 'Cassini Scientist for a Day' competition is now open to entry from students. The competition is designed to give the participants a taste of life as a scientist. Students are invited to submit a 500-word essay explaining their choice of one of three targets to be imaged by the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn.

Earthzine October 18, 2013 Essay Contest 2013, Essays, Original, Sections, Technology Our awareness of global climate change as an existential crisis for human civilization is a result of and highly dependent on certain developments in information technology.

Posted on February 11th, 2013 by Mary Lord NASA is hosting an essay contest for students in grades 5 to 12 to help choose whether the next big mission to the outer solar system should go to Saturn’s moon, Titan, or to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. The deadline for submissions is February 28.

Through Nov. 1, K-12 students in the U.S. are encouraged to enter an essay contest to name NASA's next Mars rover. NASA Invites Students to Name Mars 2020 Rover The rover recently drilled two samples, and both showed the highest levels of clay ever found during the mission.

NASA also reported that Jake M rock, a rock encountered by Curiosity on the way to Glenelg, was a mugearite and very similar to terrestrial mugearite rocks. On October 17, 2013, NASA reported, based on analysis of argon in the Martian atmosphere, that certain meteorites found on Earth thought to be from Mars are confirmed to be from Mars.

Students from across Europe have been selected as winners of the Cassini Scientist for a Day 2012 competition. Coordinated by ESA, national competitions were held in several European countries, including Poland, Spain and Greece, with more than 1000 entries. An equivalent competition was run by NASA for schools in the US.

The teenagers suggestion was taken from NASA’s “Name the Rover” essay contestBound to make history as the first aircraft to attempt powered flight on another planet, NASA’s new Mars helicopter now has a name that lives up to the daunting task: Ingenuity.And it’s all thanks to 17-year-od Vaneeza Rupani.Rupani, a high school junior from Northport, Alabama, earned the honor of.

NASA didn't name its next Mars rover Perseverance just because 'Percy' is a cute nickname.. wrapping up a competition that kicked off in August 2019 and drew more than 28,000 essay submissions.

We asked young women and girls across Africa to propose solutions for Enhancing Women Participation in the African Space Industry. We received 106 essay entries with impressive contents from 20 African countries, providing insights to what can be done to enhance women participation in STEM sectors in general and the space sector in particular.

Gemini 8 launched on 16 March 1966, piloted by ormer naval aviator Neil A. Armstrong. Gemini 8 completed seven orbits in 10 hours and 41 minutes at an altitude of 161.3 nautical miles. This was the first mission to link two spacecraft together in Earth orbit. After 30 minutes, the crew was force to undock with the Agena vehicle due to problems with the Gemini spacecraft control systems.