Pinoy Plays Key Role in NASA's Perseverance Rover Project

Gregorio Galgana Villar

Gregorio Galgana Villar has been thrust into the spotlight for playing a key role in the Perseverance rover landing on Mars. But Villar, born to Filipino parents, wanted to make it clear — he wasn't the only Filipino who worked on the historic mission (See ABS-CBN for story). 

PH Team Wins NASA Space App Challenge

United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim and the Philippine team that won the 2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge. (Photo courtesy of the United States Embassy, Manila).

Team iNON of the Philippines bested 1,395 other teams around the world in the Best Galactic Impact category with ISDApp to win the 2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge, reports Inquirer.net.

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Pinoy Entry Is Global Finalist in NASA Space App Challenge

GLOBAL FINALIST. Team iNON (It's Now or Never) is behind the ISDApp. Photo courtesy of Michael Lance Domagas (Source: Rappler)

An application made by a team of Filipino innovators was nominated as a global finalist at the Galactic Impact in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Apps Challenge, the biggest hackathon in the world (Rappler).

Filipino Helping Build Cooking Tool for Outer Space

Apollo Arquiza beside a space galley looks like aboard a zero gravity G-Force 1 plane (Photo from NASA/JPL/Cornell)

Filipino citizen Apollo Arquiza, a postdoctoral research associate who is a graduate of the UP Los Baños, is part of a team at Cornell University now building a space galley to enable cooking in outer space, reports Interaksyon.com.