January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... and other unique biological characteristics of the species, to include pathogen destruction, soon caught the eye of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. We are in a new age of discovery driven by genomics and the leveraging of novel...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... of MAVEN Project Manager David. F. Mitchell and Project Scientist Joseph M.Grebowsky, both of GSFC. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory participation included navigation and a telecommunications system to provide data relay support for ground assets...
13 March 2020
ExoMars launch postposed until 2022
...the sub-surface of Mars as well as a miniature life-search laboratory kept within an ultra-clean zone. In the frame of a... extraction tests have been completed successfully at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the main parachutes are ready for...
04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
...for as long as possible. Hoping to resolve the problem, the Voyager team assembled a group of propulsion experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to study the situation. Their solution was to hand over the job of manoeuvring...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
...women were vital to space research before the 1980s. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was unusual for the time - it began employing ...: Joan Higginbotham was elected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in April 1996 and flew as a mission specialist on...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... strong radiation doses - they actually thrive there In fact, this type of research was what got me into NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where I worked as a visiting researcher. As soon as I found out that there are researchers there studying...
