Hilo AstroDay 2019 draws a crowd
AstroDay 2019, celebrating 18 years, brought science educators from around the state to Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo.
AstroDay 2019, celebrating 18 years, brought science educators from around the state to Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo.
The Project Imua students achieved liftoff, launching the rocket and payload they designed and built for the NASA Student Launch Project competition near Huntsville, Alabama.
Project Imua’s rocket is 10 feet tall, and their payload is a four-wheeled rover designed to travel 10 feet before collecting a soil sample.
A two-week mission to perform scientific experiments and test technological instruments needed for the future exploration of the Moon or Mars was successfully completed on March 6 at the HI-SEAS habitat.
The six-member crew has been hard at work with geological and drone surveys, lava tube exploration and space technology testing.
The six-person crew’s research includes geological and drone surveys, lava tube exploration and space technology testing.
Ten UH students from Honolulu, Kapiʻolani and Windward Community Colleges and three from UH Mānoa comprise the Project Imua Mission 6 team.
The research program has operated five planetary surface missions on the Mars-like flank of Mauna Loa to investigate crew composition and cohesion.
Researchers from UH Mānoa are seeking crewmembers for a NASA-funded long-duration space exploration analog study.
Scientists who worked on the New Horizons probe that conducted a six-month flyby of Pluto and its moons will be giving a special presentation at Windward CC’s Hōkūlani Imaginarium on March 8, 2018.