If you’re traveling on Interstate 79 around South Fairmont and you time it right, you’ll see it: The Katherine Johnson IV&V NASA facility, at I-79 Technology Park. A highway glimpse is only fleeting, though. Up close, the letters in burnished chrome glint in the sun just like a ...
Blaney worked for NASA for decades Newsroom@DominionPost.com FAIRMONT — After decades of service to NASA and leadership of the Independent Verification and Validation Program, Director Gregory Blaney will retire at the end of the calendar year. Blaney has served as the director of ...
WVU engineers create software for aerobots WVU Today Engineers at West Virginia University are propelling exploration forward by creating control software for a group of aerial robots (aerobots) that will survey the atmosphere of Venus, the second planet from the sun. According to ...
MORGANTOWN -- Engineers at West Virginia University are helping to solve one of the greatest limitations of space exploration — sending and receiving information between a spacecraft and the ground station — thanks to a $750,000 award from NASA’s highly competitive Established Program ...
There’s a fine line between a public-private partnership and a government handout. A private-public partnership would be akin to the West Virginia Legislature approving $37 million in surplus state funds to assist in closing a deal for the Mylan plant in Morgantown — should such a deal ...
FAIRMONT – If you want to hear about that $24 million NASA contract, you have to take the car tour, first. One look at rocket ship-styled hood ornaments and other trappings on that 1957 Chevrolet Nomad told the tale in Wade Linger’s garage Wednesday afternoon. The Chevy Nomad was a ...