{"id":123311,"date":"2021-10-04T09:01:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T13:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=123311"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:24:00","slug":"ucf-celebrates-world-space-week-all-october-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-celebrates-world-space-week-all-october-long\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Celebrates World Space Week All October Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today kicks off World Space Week, the largest annual space event that spans the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations designated the week in 1999 to help build enthusiasm for the space workforce of tomorrow. The goal is to inspire the youth of today to pursue careers that support worldwide efforts to explore and learn about our planet and its place in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>UCF\u2019s been doing that since 1963, when it opened its door to provide talent for central Florida and the growing U.S. space program. UCF\u2019s space-related research and our proximity to Kennedy Space Center, the birth of the space race for America, gives our students many unique opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Students have helped prepared experiments that have flown on International Space Station and on several commercial space flights. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-student-working-as-image-analyst-for-nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-recovery-mission\/\">One undergraduate student working with our professor on NASA\u2019s OSIRIS REx mission played a role in helping identify the best location to take an asteroid sample<\/a>. Many other students and post-docs are working with UCF faculty on NASA and European Space Agency missions while others work with private contractors involved in launch operations<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/19-ucf-students-living-the-dream-working-at-nasas-kennedy-space-center\/\">. Our students are also well represented in NASA\u2019s Pathways internship program with 19 students last semester alone.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UCF\u2019s efforts to prepare students from across all walks of life is well recognized. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-is-1-of-7-universities-to-win-grant-to-support-nasas-artemis-program\/\">That\u2019s one reason why NASA awarded a team of interdisciplinary professors a half a million-dollar grant to create transformative space technologies that support space exploration.<\/a> The grant means interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students will work on projects with industry and NASA centers.<\/p>\n<p>This week you\u2019ll hear about some of the exciting missions UCF is a part of and about some Knights who are working on out of this world research. And don\u2019t forget Oct. 22 is UCF\u2019s Space Game when our football team takes on Memphis. This year\u2019s theme celebrates the 40<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Anniversary of the Space Shuttle program, including many Knights who worked in the program. You won\u2019t want to miss seeing the team\u2019s space-themed uniforms and special presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sneak peek at just two of the high-profile missions UCF is a part of and which are scheduled to before the holidays.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-110691 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt-300x200.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-110691 img-fluid lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20300%20200%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20300%20200%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt.jpg 800w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/DanBritt-300x200.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>NASA\u2019s Lucy Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 16 at 6:50am.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids, associated with&nbsp;Jupiter. This area of our solar system is believed to hold remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets. The launch is scheduled for October so that the spacecraft can get a gravity boost from Earth as its slingshots out to the outer edges of the solar system, a journey that will take about 12 years. The spacecraft will visit eight asteroids in a region of space that has never been visited before. The mission is named after Lucy, the fossilized human remains found in Ethiopia in 1974. The skeleton was critical to understanding certain stages of human evolution. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-professors-research-part-first-mission-jupiters-trojan-asteroids\/\">NASA\u2019s mission promises to provide similar insight about Earth, says UCF Professor of Physics Dan Britt, who is part of the mission.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-110687 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall-300x215.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall-716x512.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall-559x400.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall-360x257.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-110687 img-fluid lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20300%20215%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20300%20215%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall-716x512.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall-559x400.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall-360x257.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall.jpg 800w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/06\/NoemiSmall-300x215.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>James Webb Space Telescope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in French Guiana on Dec. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Space Institute Planetary Scientist Noemi Pinilla Alonso<\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope is part of an international program led by NASA with its partners the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency. The telescope is many times improved over the Hubble Telescope which revolutionized space observations when Space Shuttle Discovery delivered it into orbit in 1990. The JWST will assist researchers explore our solar system and distant galaxies and everything in between, which should help humankind understand its origins in the universe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-scientist-to-complete-100-hours-of-research-on-james-webb-space-telescope\/\">says Noemi Pinilla Alonso, a planetary scientist at the UCF-based Florida Space Center.<\/a> Getting time on the telescope has been competitive with more than 1,000 proposals submitted from 44 nations. Pinilla Alonso has secured time on the telescope to study 59 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs in our solar system and she is a co-investigator on two other international proposals which also have guaranteed time on the telescope in the first two years of observations. TNOs are crucial because they formed with the most primitive and unprocessed materials in the pre solar nebula and preserve evidence of the how the solar system first formed. Altogether UCF scientists and doctoral students have secured more than 100 hours on the telescope thanks to their outstanding proposals that stood out among many competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the United Nations designated a weeklong celebration, space is a lifetime passion at UCF, reflected in its research and on the football field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":123320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,6,23,24],"tags":[982,1646,1775,3715,14916,4361,4857],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-123311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-community","category-research","category-science-technology","tag-college-of-sciences","tag-faculty","tag-florida-space-instit","tag-physics","tag-research","tag-space","tag-ucf-athletics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UCF Celebrates World Space Week All October Long | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While the United Nations designated a weeklong celebration, space is a lifetime passion at UCF, reflected in its research and on the football field.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-celebrates-world-space-week-all-october-long\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UCF Celebrates World Space Week All October Long\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While the United Nations designated a weeklong celebration, space is a lifetime passion at UCF, reflected in its research and on the football field.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-celebrates-world-space-week-all-october-long\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-04T13:01:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-04T14:24:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/10\/JWT_ArtistRendering.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Zenaida Kotala\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Zenaida Kotala\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-celebrates-world-space-week-all-october-long\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-celebrates-world-space-week-all-october-long\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Zenaida Kotala\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4f0fdedfa744a8bfddd06132e6ce9b5e\"},\"headline\":\"UCF Celebrates World Space Week All October Long\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-04T13:01:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-04T14:24:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-celebrates-world-space-week-all-october-long\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":740,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-celebrates-world-space-week-all-october-long\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/JWT_ArtistRendering.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"College of Sciences\",\"faculty\",\"Florida Space institute\",\"physics\",\"Research\",\"space\",\"UCF Athletics\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Colleges &amp; 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