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No competition is complete without prizes! At the Conrad Challenge we believe our prizes should be as fierce as the competition. You won’t just leave the challenge a stronger entrepreneur, but you will gain so many incredible treasures along the way. From lifelong friendships and connections to priceless memories that will last a lifetime. This competition will challenge you, so your hard work deserves to be celebrated with some incredible prizes!   To celebrate the 2024-2025 Pete Conrad Scholars, we awarded an all-expense paid trip to Boston, Massachusetts, the home of one of the world’s most renowned STEM institutions, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   During this multi-day trip, the scholars toured facilities at MIT, participated in hands-on STEM activities and of ...

Read this press release in English here. Ya está abierto el plazo de acreditación de medios de comunicación para el lanzamiento de la primera misión lunar tripulada de la campaña Artemis de la NASA. Con un lanzamiento previsto para principios de 2026, el vuelo de prueba Artemis II enviará a los astronautas de la NASA Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover y Christina Koch y al astronauta de la CSA (Agencia Espacial Canadiense) Jeremy Hansen en un viaje de aproximadamente 10 días alrededor de la Luna y de regreso. La tripulación despegará desde el Centro Espacial Kennedy de la agencia en Florida, a bordo de la nave espacial Orion de la NASA, transportada por el poderoso cohete Sistema de Lanzamiento Espacial (SLS, por sus siglas en inglés) de la agencia, con el fin de ayudar a validar los sistemas y ...

WASHINGTON — After a successful second flight of New Glenn, including the first landing of the booster, Blue Origin is looking to perform its next launch early next year, possibly with the same booster. In an interview a day after the Nov. 13 NG-2 launch of New Glenn, Blue Origin Chief Executive Dave Limp said that while data reviews have only just started, the vehicle appeared to perform exactly as expected. “On the surface, it looks like a very nominal mission,” he said. The NG-2 launch successfully deployed NASA’s ESCAPADE mission, a pair smallsats that will head to Mars after spending a year in the vicinity of the Earth-sun L2 point. The upper stage also included a hosted payload from Viasat to test the ability to relay launch vehicle telemetry. The highlight of the mission...

The most cosmic time of year is here and there’s no better way to celebrate than with your Space Center Houston membership! From dazzling lights to stellar conversations and hands-on adventures, your membership unlocks exclusive events and special perks designed to make this fall and winter truly out of this world. So, gather your space crew and get ready to make memories that shine as bright as the stars at these upcoming events: Galaxy Lights, presented by Wellby Financial, Member Preview Night – November 14 Start the holiday season with an evening of wonder! Be among the first to experience Galaxy Lights during this exclusive members-only preview. Stroll through the breathtaking space-themed light display before it opens to the public and enjoy: Complimentary s’...

On a clear night, you might see thousands of stars in the sky. Most of these stars are dozens or hundreds of light years away from us. A light year is the distance a beam of light travels in a year: about 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers). This means that for those stars we see at night, it takes their light, which travels at about 186,000 miles per second (or about 300 thousand kilometers per second), dozens or hundreds of years to reach us. But in the daytime, we only see one star: the Sun. It dominates the daytime sky because it is so close - about 93 million miles (or 150 million kilometers) away. That distance is also called one astronomical unit, and its another unit of measurement astronomers use to record distance in space. But even if 1 astronomical unit...