by Mary | Feb 10, 2019 | Career Spotlight, Space, STEM
Emily Eelkema Stough NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology Spacecraft Operations Engineer Emily & the first image from the Mars InSight Lander Synopsis of Job: What do you do? I am on the uplink team for the InSight Mars Lander. Along...
by Mary | Dec 21, 2018 | Space, STEM
One of our themes for 2019 is The Year of Apollo. 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Throughout 2019, we’ll look at how the Apollo program impacted our understand of science, technology, engineering and math and what the next steps...
by Mary | Nov 20, 2018 | Space
The landing site for the Mars 2020 rover will be Jezero Crater. From NASA’s press release: “The landing site in Jezero Crater offers geologically rich terrain, with landforms reaching as far back as 3.6 billion years old, that could potentially answer important...
by Mary | Oct 14, 2018 | Space, SpaceNorth, Starbird Log, STEM
The Bold North. The North Star State. The northernmost point of the continental United States is in the little northern notch by the tiny inlet of Angle. Now it’s time to make Minnesota Space North, the Midwest hub for the space industry in the United States. Why...
by Mary | Jul 19, 2018 | Events, Scholarships, Space, SpaceNorth, Starbird Log, STEM
We’re excited to be on this journey through hyperspace, a not-so-5-year-mission to keep our STEM workforce growing, support innovative youth programming that parallels that goal AND be the voice for Minnesota at SpaceNorth, the Midwest hub for the space industry...
