Pasadena Media’s flagship local TV talk show “Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman” won a 1st place award in the Talk Show (Professional Producer) category at the Alliance for Community Media (ACM) West’s WAVE (Western Access Video Excellence) Awards on Friday. The show was also a finalist in the Magazine Show (Professional Producer) category. ACM West’s region includes public access channel progr... More »
Engineers working on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Tuesday, April 16, to monitor a transmission from the history-making helicopter. While the mission ended Jan. 25, the rotorcraft has remained in communication with the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover, which serves as a base station... More »
Pasadena Mayor Victor M. Gordo issued a proclamation on Monday recognizing the Armenian Genocide, a historic act of acknowledgment for a city with deep ties to the Armenian American community and its history of perseverance in the face of tragedy. “As a community, it is appropriate for us to stand together and join our Armenian brothers and sisters in an effort to memorialize their fallen ancestor... More »
Hoping to breathe new life into a long-planned but financially struggling effort to retrieve soil and rock samples from Mars and return them to Earth, NASA leaders are reaching out to the space-exploration community Tuesday for proposals that will lower the $11 billion cost and make the project happen far sooner than currently anticipated. With NASA facing an overall funding crunch, the ambitious ... More »
Marshall Fundamental School experienced a display of solidarity as members from all corners of the community gathered to welcome students with open arms. Parents, community leaders, first responders, fraternities, and sororities came together to encourage students as they entered the final stretch of the academic year. Lori Touloumian, Principal of Marshall Fundamental, expressed her excitement at... More »
It’s March Madness season — that crazy time in the early spring when men’s and women’s college basketball teams have us all on edge with late game upsets, come-from-behind 3-point finishes, and the possibility that even the smallest colleges and most unknown players have a shot at fame and victory. Watching University of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark set the record recently for the all-time leading scorer ... More »
Roughly two dozen California congressional representatives sent a letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson Wednesday calling on him to commit at least $650 million to an ambitious Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led mission to collect rock and soil samples from Mars and return them to Earth. The Mars Sample Return mission has fallen victim to budget cutbacks, contributing to the layoffs of more than 500... More »
Data and imagery from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate one of two covers that keep dust from accumulating on the optics of the SHERLOC instrument remains partially open. In this position, the cover interferes with science data collection operations. Mounted on the rover’s robotic arm, SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) uses cameras... More »
The Rose Bowl Stadium will host an Open House on Wednesday, Jan. 31, in celebration of the birthday of the legendary Pasadena resident Jackie Robinson. The event, scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m., will commemorate the life and legacy of Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Attendance is free, but reservations are required (click here). The Rose Bowl is offering a unique ... More »
Ingenuity — the Jet Propulsion Laboratory-built, drone-like helicopter that made history when it launched from the surface of Mars and conducted the first powered flight on another planet — has suffered damage to one of its rotors and is no longer able to fly, mission managers announced Thursday. The news brought to an end the unexpectedly long mission of a helicopter that was designed only as a d... More »
