![]() ![]() Adults wanting to obtain an advanced degree can select from several impressive higher learning institutions that call our area home. 2020 National Blue Ribbon Schools in the area include Bob Jones high School, Cleburne County Elementary School, Hewitt-Trussville High School, and John S. Of course, there are unique STEM adventures like Space Camp, but our schools offer a variety of excellent science, arts, and liberal arts opportunities to all students at every age. In Rocket City, USA, education is taken seriously. ![]() On March 23, 2022, Huntsville popped up on Jeopardy under the category "Big City.": Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce:.Huntsville listed as one of the “Best Places to Live in the U.S.": ![]() Huntsville named one of the South's "Best Cities on the Rise" by Southern Living Magazine: NASA named Best Place to Work in Federal Government for 9th Straight Year. NASA and the Marshall Space Flight Center are dedicated to providing a diverse, inclusive, and encouraging work environment for everyone. Huntsville is growing rapidly and becoming more and more of a melting pot. NASA expects even more artifacts to be offered in additional rounds to come.The citizens of Huntsville are warm and outreaching, compassionate, and generous. The deadline to apply for the 60th screening is June 30. Museums need to be designated as a 501(c)(3) organization to participate. states.Īccording to a NASA, organizations eligible to become custodians include other federal agencies, universities registered in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), K-12 schools registered in the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and not-for-profit museums, libraries and planetariums that are eligible to receive federal property. Since 2009, the agency has assigned more than 13,000 artifacts from its collection to locations in all 50 U.S. If after receiving an artifact, the new custodian (as NASA refers to the recipients) decides it no longer desires the item, it generally has to offer the agency the artifact's return within the first five years of ownership. NASA centers and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum have first right of refusal on artifacts being released from the agency's holdings. NASA considers an item to be an artifact if is associated with achievements or improvements in technology the understanding of the universe or important or well-known personalities. SOFIA: NASA's prematurely canceled airborne telescope that left a gap behind Viking at 40: How NASA mission brought Mars into the light The best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time! Other items in the current catalog include a specialized bag designed to carry circuit cards and a glove, part of the extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) spacesuit worn by astronauts on spacewalks, which were both used for mission training. Even after 60 screenings, NASA still has space shuttle thermal protection system tiles available, which perhaps should not be too surprising given that more than 20,000 tiles were installed on each shuttle orbiter to shield the vehicle's metal skin from the heat of reentry into Earth's atmosphere. General Services Administration (GSA), one of the first items that was made available was something the space agency had in droves. The hardware is a leftover remnant from the United States' first exploration of the surface of Mars. Speaking of grabs, a spare mechanical arm from NASA's Viking landers is also being offered. These two large instruments flew on board SOFIA - the now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, NASA's specially outfitted Boeing 747 - detected water on the moon's sun-lit areas and studied polarized light from the interstellar medium, respectively. and Russian space mission in 1975.įor institutions with more (floor) space, FORCAST and HAWC are up for grabs. Among them are detailed scale models of the Hubble Space Telescope, vintage replicas of the Saturn V moon rocket and miniatures of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft that completed the first joint U.S. NASA, though, identified a dozen items as highlights. (Image credit: NASA)Īccess to the full inventory of artifacts is limited to the screening participants only. ![]() A large-scale cutaway model of the Apollo spacecraft as it would be mounted atop the Saturn V rocket is among the vintage displays available to schools and museums through NASA's artifact program. ![]()
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