NASA Earns Best Place to Work in Government for 12 Straight Years
For the 12th year in a row, the Partnership for Public Service named NASA the best place to work among large agencies in the federal government. “Once again, NASA has shown that with the world’s finest workforce, we can reach the stars,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Through space exploration, advances in aviation, groundbreaking science, new technologies, and more, the team of wizards at NASA do what is hard to achieve what is great. That’s the pioneer spirit that makes NASA the best place to work in the federal government. With this ingenuity and passion, we will continue to innovate for the benefit of all and inspire the world.” The Partnership for Public Service began to compile the Best Places to Work rankings in 2003 to analyze federal employees’ viewpoints on leadership, work-life balance, and other factors of their job. LEARN MORE
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The Roman Coronagraph Instrument onboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help pave the way in the search for habitable worlds outside our solar system by testing new tools that block starlight, revealing planets hidden by the glare of their parent stars.
The Psyche spacecraft passed its six-month checkup with a clean bill of health, and there’s no holding back now! Navigators are firing its futuristic-looking electric thrusters nearly nonstop as the orbiter zips farther into deep space toward a metal-rich asteroid, where it will collect science data.
Twin shoebox-size climate satellites will soon be studying two of the most remote regions on Earth: the Arctic and Antarctic.
Data from the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) mission will help improve our understanding of the greenhouse effect at the poles—specifically, the capacity of water vapor, clouds, and other elements of Earth’s atmosphere to trap heat and keep it from radiating into space. Researchers will use this information to update climate and ice models, which will lead to better predictions of how sea level, weather, and snow and ice cover are likely to change in a warming world.
PREFIRE is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, May 25.
Doris Britton was a chemical engineer for over 30 years in the electrochemistry branch at Glenn Research Center. After earning a degree in her native Philippines, Britton applied for a U.S. visa with no intention of ever leaving home. At the urging of colleagues, however, she decided to accept a position in Cleveland at Union Carbide in the early 1970s. In 1977, she successfully applied for a position at the Glenn Research Center. Britton specialized in the study of lightweight nickel electrodes for hydrogen fuel cells and the study of lithium-ion batteries. She retired in the mid-2000s, with over 30 years at the center.
