Category Education

Remembering the STS-51L Challenger Crew

Thirty-five years ago on January 28, 1986 at 11:38 a.m. EST the world watched as the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off the launch pad with the first teacher in space. It was an exhilarating moment in time, but 73 seconds…

NASA Spinoff Leads to Odor-Eliminating Shoe Inserts

Here’s an update from our local Solar System Ambassador Pam Roller Activated carbons are often part of standard filtration systems, both on Earth and in space. Spacecraft cabins are relatively small, enclosed spaces with equipment and people releasing a host…

NASA Lends Moon Rock for Oval Office Display

Here’s an update from our local Solar System Ambassador Pam Roller: At the request of the Biden Administration, a Moon rock now sits in the Oval Office of the White House in symbolic recognition of earlier generations’ ambitions and accomplishments,…

An ‘Old Faithful’ Active Galaxy

Here’s an update from our local Solar System Ambassador Pam Roller: The Old Faithful geyser at Yellowstone National Park is viewed by over a million people each year to watch a jet of regular blasts of boiling water high in…

LCSC accepting Crystal Berry nominations thru March 31, 2021

SOURCE: News release from Logansport Community School Corporation Logansport Community School Corporation (LCSC) is currently accepting nominations for the Crystal Berry Award recipients for the 2020-2021 school year. The Crystal Berry Awards were created to recognize those who go above…

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Induction ceremony welcomes new nursing students

KOKOMO, Ind. — Forty-seven future health care professionals took the first steps towards their future careers, as Indiana University Kokomo faculty welcomed them into the School of Nursing. During the virtual ceremony, professors and students introduced themselves and the new class…

NASA’s accomplishments this past year

Wow, this past year was historical for NASA! U.S. Astronauts were launched to the International Space Station from America again, progress was made on plans to land the first woman and the next man to the Moon, the fifth rover…

Some of the things NASA has planned for 2021

Solar System Ambassador Pam Roller shares this update from NASA on some of the things planned for 2021! This 3:24 video shows sending the first Artemis mission to the Moon in preparation for human missions, the landing of the Mars…

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IU Kokomo plans Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations

SOURCE: News release from Indiana University Kokomo KOKOMO, Ind. — Conversations ignited by the events of 2020 — a global pandemic that uprooted lives, protests for racial justice following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery at the…