On anniversary of Kennedy's 'Moon Speech', NASA invites students for interactive programme

NASA, in a bid to encour current generation to develop an interest in and interstellar research, has invited high school students to be a part of an online interactive programme.  online course High School Aero Scholars (HAS) is based on NASA activities, related to  exploration, Earth science, techlogy, mamatics and aeronautics.

NASA made anuncement of course while celebrating 58th anniversary of former US President John F Kennedy's speech of September 12, 1962, where he spoke about famous Apollo mission, which went on to achieve magnanimous feat of landing man on Moon on July 20, 1969. Read President Kennedy's full speech here.

Students who apply for program would be tasked to complete design challenges including 3D drawings, science quizzes, discussion posts, techlogy writings and monthly webinars with NASA scientists and engineers. students who topped course would be invited to NASA for a six-day residential summer experience and  Johnson Center in Houston, Texas.

highest achieving students will get an opportunity to participate in team projects and briefings directed by NASA engineers and scientists, hands-on design challenge and engineering activities planning an Artemis-med mission, and tours of NASA facilities. Students will also get an opportunity to work with NASA experts on designing a mission to Mars.  duration of course is said to be one year. Check course details here.

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NASA invites private partners to bid for lunar payload

NASA has issued ar request to its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) partners to bid for opportunity to launch a future payload to 'Moon'. This anuncement came after latest advancement of its Artemis lunar efforts. In this request, NASA has asked its private partners to fly 10 NASA science investigations and techlogy demonstrations to a n-polar region of Moon in 2022. 

se 14 CLPS private ncies are owned by NASA which are used for various missions. reason behind using se companies is that NASA can launch its missions quickly without having to develop techlogy and systems itself. All NASA has to do is pay a private company that already has techlogy and system ncy requires for its mission.

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