An important astronomy project to reach an asteroid depends in part on the dark night skies that are a result of cooperation between science and industry in Tucson.
Spacefest is an annual convention celebrating all things, well, space. Its third year in Tucson, Ariz., there were astronauts, intricate spaceship models, neato meteorite jewelry, and plenty of nerds. Nerds, by the way, are awesome. Without further ado, here’s a peek at the convention.
Where Institute reporter Joe Fitzgerald meets a Trekkie who helped NASA research health conditions for manned missions to Mars.
The annual Space Fest V conference met Memorial Day weekend in Tucson, Ariz., to celebrate human space flight and its future. However, some at the conference were disillusioned with NASA’s budget cuts and shorter-term goals.
Sleep deprived and deep into editing our copy, the cowpokes of the Tucson, Ariz. based New York Times Student Journalism Institute say “Howdy, pardner” in two quick Vines
Reporter Joe Fitzgerald, rum and Coke in hand, sees another planet with his own eyes for the very first time.
An astronaut who walked on the moon has turned to paint and canvas to convey the depth of the moon’s colors.
When Arielle Dollinger was 13, her dad dissuaded her from becoming a lawyer. Now as a journalist, she hopes to cover “really ordinary things that people don’t normally think are beautiful.”
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has released nearly 600 photos from the 2011 mass shooting that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The photos included the Glock 19 that the gunman, Jared Loughner, used to kill six people and wound 13 others, as well as the bloodied pavement outside the Safeway.
More than 50 officers from agencies across Pima County and more than 30 vehicles, including an armored car, swooped into a former auto wrecking yard during an FBI-led raid in the Julia Keen section of Tucson on Thursday morning. Authorities would not say if any arrests were made.
During the Institute, students are working journalists supervised by reporters and editors from The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Opportunities for students include reporting, copy editing, photography, Web production, print and Web design, and video journalism. Institute graduates now work at major news organizations, including The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The New York Times itself, and dozens of midsize news organizations.