Making News: December 2010

Aerospace students from Oklahoma State are profiled as part of a team working on “developing a microgravity experiment they will test for NASA” related to reducing bone and muscle loss for astronauts in space.

The ‘Space Cowboys’ team from OSU is one of ten teams selected by NASA’s Microgravity University. Dr. Jamey Jacob, P.E. (OK A ’90), is an advisor to the Space Cowboys.
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Dr. Bill Hammack, MI B ’84, aka the Engineer Guy, released a video just in time for the holiday season, “Why the other line is likely to move faster.”

The video on ‘queueing theory’ gives a related history of engineering telephone lines and relates it to shoppers approaching cashier lines. Click here to read the article and here to see the full video.

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The New Yorker recently highlighted the best NASA photographs of 2010. The images were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

You can see the nine images selected here. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope is also on Twitter with updates and links to more great images. Click here to follow the Hubble on Twitter.

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