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‘Triple T’ Part of a Long Line of Teams Ensuring Safe Missions

‘Triple T’ Part of a Long Line of Teams Ensuring Safe Missions

During the 30-year history of the Space Shuttle Program, many important payloads were launched. From the Hubble Space Telescope to the International Space Station, history was made. However, the most crucial cargo was human. The team assigned to ensure crews were safely sealed into their spacecraft before they rocketed into orbit was the Closeout Crew led by Travis Tod Thompson.

ICON Begins Study of Region Where Earth, Space Weather Meet

ICON Begins Study of Region Where Earth, Space Weather Meet

NASA’s new Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, satellite will provide scientists and meteorologists with a better understanding of the dynamic zone high in the atmosphere where terrestrial weather meets weather in space. This is the area through which radio communications and GPS signals travel. Changes in weather can effect both.