STEM at Montgomery College

Got an interesting pic of the Moon, Jupiter, and Orion from the front porch about 1:00 am on Monday.

The numbers to the right of the decimal are very consequential in rocket science,

29 Aug. 1965: The Gemini 5 spacecraft is brought aboard the recovery ship, USS Lake Champlain after a nearly 8-day mission. Retrofire having been initiated over Hawaii, the astronauts controlled the reentry, creating drag and lift by rotating the capsule. Due to a computing error, the crew splashed down 80 miles (130 km) short of the planned landing point in the Atlantic Ocean. Although the computer had worked perfectly, a programmer had entered the rate of Earth’s rotation as 360° per 24 hours instead of 360.98°.

Swarm trap condos at the Duckettsville Home forWayward Bees!

Supporting the 4-H/Future Farmers of American at the Anne Arundel County Fair!

Second week of fall semester at Montgomery College!

Montgomery College has hosted the Maryland/District of Columbia Middle School Regional Competition for the first time!

Congratulations to all of the competitors from Herbert Hoover, Robert Frost, Roberto Clemente, San Miguel, and Takoma Park middle schools!

Robert Frost and Takoma Park faced off in an exciting championship match that came down to the last question!

Robert Frost has won the regional title for the third consecutive year and will participate against the best middle school teams in the country at the National Science Bowl in April.

The next national shortage? Skilled semiconductor chip labor. How one university is powering the talent pipeline with work-ready engineers. By Brandy Salmon, Virginia Tech associate vice president of innovation and partnerships As companies around the world launch plans to onshore semiconductor chip production, a new challenge is quickly being revealed—a sho...

As the community seeks to understand and address increasing cyber threats to 5G networks, FiGHT has arrived to help.

Join our session at , Sept. 29 at 2PM PDT, to learn how arming the 5G community with the knowledge of how adversaries disrupt networks, FiGHT deters threats while also enabling development and deployment of secure and resilient 5G systems. https://bit.ly/3dqW6QH

Department of Civil and Environmental

A $25M commitment will fund a new world-class engineering facility at the University of Maryland. The interdisciplinary engineering building, named in honor of benefactor Stanley R. Zupnik '59, will help prepare engineers to solve society’s grand challenges.

Read more: https://go.umd.edu/cWg

Voyager, NASA’s Longest-Lived Mission, Logs 45 Years in Space Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space.

$1B Giant Magellan Telescope to Have 4x the Resolution of James Webb It will be able to deliver images sharp enough to see the torch engraved on a dime from nearly 160 kilometers away.

Landsat Legacy: NASA-USGS Program Observing Earth from Space Turns 50 On a warm July day in 1972, NASA launched a new Earth-imaging satellite called the Earth Resources Technology Satellite. The first Landsat was so successful it led to a series of satellites that have created the longest contiguous record of Earth’s surface from a space-eye view – that continues ...

NASA Tech for Webb Telescope Mirrors Boosts Eye Surgery Precision Technology to measure the observatory’s mirrors boosts LASIK eye surgery precision

This image is worth a trillion words.

NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.

President Joe Biden will release one of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope’s first images in a preview event on Monday at 5 p.m. EDT at the White House in Washington. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will provide remarks. A live stream of the event will be available on NASA TV. The image will be available simultaneously on NASA’s website: https://www.nasa.gov/

Space Biology!

Crew Works Space Biology, Preps for Next Spacewalk The Expedition 67 crew continued exploring how humans and plants adapt in microgravity while testing robotic free-flyers on Wednesday.

NASA Invites Media, Public to View Webb Telescope’s First Images NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Cente...