HAMPTON, Va. — Langley Research Center is wrapping up the ‘NASA at 50’ lecture series that is celebrating a half-century of history with someone who was there when it all started. Roy Harris, Jr., the ...

The public is invited to a free talk called “Penguins, Polar Bears, and Laser Beams from Space: NASA Science at the Poles,” by NASA scientist Dr. Tom Neumann. The talk is part of the Gerald Soffen ...

The University of Rhode Island (URI) is looking to the stars — and beyond — for its annual fall lecture series this year. For the 2026 edition of the yearly Honors Colloquium, the Kingston campus is ...

This week NASA hosted the Viking Mars Landers 40th anniversary symposium. In 1976 Viking 1 and 2 were the first landers to successfully land on Mars. From NASA: “NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 missions to Mars ...

On Monday, April 21, I attended the NASA Lecture Series, another venue to celebrate NASA’s 50th anniversary. World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, Ph.D., delivered a wonderful lecture on the ...

Just 14 years after the Wright brothers flew the first powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, NASA Langley Research Center was founded to figure out how to get aircraft to go higher, faster, farther. More ...

NASA brings space science education to incarcerated youth and adults, offering lectures and hands-on activities inside detention facilities. Programs like this drastically reduce the recidivism rate, ...

1208838898000Dr. Stephen Hawking, a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge (L) is praised by his daughter Lucy Hawking, as he delivers a speech entitled 'Why we should go into space' ...

Since 1971, NASA Langley has hosted a monthly lecture series to give its employees an hour-long break from building airplanes, spaceships and other devices. Over the years, many famous speakers ...

Last week, world renowned physicist Stephen Hawking gave a talk in honor of NASA's 50th anniversary on the value of human space exploration. If anyone knows the value of not ignoring pressing ...