Tag: NASA
Trump names Jewish tech entrepreneur to head NASA
President-elect Donald Trump announced his nomination on Wednesday of Jewish entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Isaacman is the founder and chief executive of Shift4, a payment processing company, and...
House panel tells five US agencies to review funding of schools with Jew-hatred
The U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space and Technology Committee wrote to leaders of five U.S. departments and agencies—the Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency and NASA—on Thursday...
National Library of Israel gets a celestial space diary
It’s a diary of cosmic proportions, which has rubbed shoulders with the stars.
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian owns a flute, which the first astronaut enrolled in an American Indian tribe played...
Israel’s Weizmann Institute joins NASA planetary defense exercise
Representatives from the Weizmann Institute’s Physics Faculty in Rehovot joined more than 100 astronomers worldwide in a recent NASA planetary defense exercise.
As part of the exercise, David Polishook, a member of the faculty and...
Nazi weapons site is to be filled with the sounds of Jewish-composed music
He and his family escaped the Nazis. His music will now be played where Hitler’s regime tested its weapons.
The New York Philharmonic—in an event a decade in the making—will hold three performances next week...
Israel, NASA set to cooperate on space programs centered around Mars, moon
Israel and NASA are set to cooperate on the joint study of space, the moon and Mars, according to a report in recent days by EurAsian Times.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the Jewish state...
NASA names two asteroids after Israeli student who discovered them
NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is naming two recently discovered asteroids after an Israeli student who found them during an asteroid-hunting project, it was announced on Friday.
Aseel Nama, a biomedical engineering student at the...
Radio emissions from galaxy challenge black hole theories, say Israeli scientists
Israeli scientists said in research published on Monday that they intercepted radio emissions that may challenge the assumptions of how black holes behave.
As part of the research, which was published by the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy, physicist Assaf Horesh of...
Israel team aims to reach Neptune’s moon with Trident project
Is there life on Triton, the largest moon circling the planet Neptune? An Israeli project aims to find out. One of its key measurement tools will be a super-accurate clock that loses less than...
NASA releases photographs of ‘Beresheet’ lunar crash
NASA released pictures Wednesday of the moon after Israel’s “Beresheet” spacecraft crashed on the moon last month.
“The cameras captured a dark smudge, about 10 meters wide, that indicates the point of impact,” said NASA....