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A view of the aurora australis as taken by the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) spacecraft on Jan. 7. This photo was taken by the IMAGE satellite in 2005, after which it was lost for 12 years before being found again in early 2018. (NASA)

Long Lost NASA Satellite Found by Amateur Astronomer

Kieri Karpa, Head Layout Manager • February 21, 2018

Scott Tilley, an amateur astronomer, was searching space with his radio equipment and detected something interesting on January 30, 2018. His radio equipment picked up a signal from the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora...

Astronaut Mae C. Jemison is shown aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour as Science Mission Specialist on the STS-47 NASA Space lab-J flight, a US/Japan joint mission, in Sept. 1992. As part of the Autogenic Feedback Tranining Experiment (AFTE), Dr. Jemison is wearing the headband and other monitoring gear at various times during the flight in support of physiological evaluations. Dr. Jemison became the first black woman to orbit into space on Sept. 12. (AP Photo/NASA)

Mae Carol Jemison: Stanford at 16 to First Black Woman in Space

February 25, 2016

By: Irene Ciocirlan She had a dream. Mae Carol Jemison, the first African American woman to fly to space, has greatly impacted black history. Black History Month was created in 1976 to celebrate...

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