September 2010
82 posts
NASA And Optimus Prime Collaborate To Educate... →
NASA And Optimus Prime Collaborate To Educate Youth; New Video Contest To Raise Awareness Of NASA Technology
NASA Gives Details on Spotting the Space Station... →
Plan your next camp out for a national park, and you might spot one of the gems of the night sky — the International Space Station — from one of the nation’s jewels on the ground.
NASA Invites Virginia Students to Become 2011... →
Planning a mission to Mars and gaining college credit are just two perks high school juniors in Virginia can experience through The Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars program.
09-29-2010 →
NASA Invites Public To Discuss “What Matters Next”... →
Nasa Invites Public To Discuss “What Matters Next” At TedxNASA
NASA Mission Shows Evolution Of Conditions At Edge... →
New data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft, reveal that conditions at the edge of our solar system may be much more dynamic than previously thought.
NASA Solar System Exhibition Arrives At Dulles... →
NASA and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority unveiled a photography exhibition at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., where ticketed airline travelers can view space science…
NASA Deputy Administrator Hosts Media... →
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will be available to answer media questions during a teleconference Thursday, Sept. 30, at 1:30 p.m. EDT.
NASA Reschedules Teleconference On IBEX Spacecraft... →
NASA has rescheduled the media teleconference to discuss new information about the boundary of our solar system obtained from the agency’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft. The…
NASA Awards Contract Modification For Shared... →
NASA has awarded Computer Services Corporation (CSC) of Falls Church, Va., a modification to exercise the first option year under its existing contract
NASA And Optimus Prime Collaborate To Educate... →
NASA And Optimus Prime Collaborate To Educate Youth; New Video Contest To Raise Awareness Of NASA Technology
A Galactic Spectacle →
The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA’s Great Observatories—the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space…
NASA Gives Details on Spotting the Space Station... →
Plan your next camp out for a national park, and you might spot one of the gems of the night sky — the International Space Station — from one of the nation’s jewels on the ground.
NASA and NSF-Funded Research Finds First... →
A team of planet hunters from the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced the discovery of a planet with three times the mass of Earth…
NASA Administrator Thanks Congress for 2010... →
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden regarding Wednesday’s action by the House of Representatives on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act…
09-17-2010 →
NASA Hosts Symposium About Latin American Space... →
NASA hosted government representatives from several Latin American countries in Washington on Thursday to share information about the agency’s work in that region and discuss potential future…
NASA Awards Launch Services Contracts →
NASA has announced the awards for the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II Contract. The award will provide a broad range of launch services for NASA’s planetary, Earth-observing, exploration and scientific…
09-16-2010 →
Celestial Wonderland →
This high forward oblique view of Rima Ariadaeus on the moon was photographed by the Apollo 10 crew in May 1969. Center point coordinates are located at 17 degrees, 5 minutes east longitude and 5…
NASA Hosting Live Bilingual Web Chat With Drone... →
NASA invites the public to join a bilingual online chat on Thursday, Sept. 23. The chat is NASA’s first hosted in Spanish and English on the agency’s website.
NASA'S Lunar Spacecraft Completes Exploration... →
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, will complete the exploration phase of its mission on Sept. 16, after a number of successes that transformed our understanding of Earth’s nearest…
NASA Hosting Live Bilingual Web Chat With Drone... →
NASA invites the public to join a bilingual online chat on Thursday, Sept. 23. The chat is NASA’s first hosted in Spanish and English on the agency’s website.
The Rosette Nebula →
Located about 5,000 light years from Earth, this composite image shows the Rosette star formation region. Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are colored red and outlined by a white line. The…
09-15-2010 →
NASA Assigns Crew for Final Launch on Need Shuttle... →
NASA announced the four astronauts who will make up the crew of STS-335, the rescue mission that would fly only if needed to bring home the members of space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 mission,…
09-14-2010 →
NASA Selects High School Students For INSPIRE... →
NASA has selected 1,895 high school students to participate in the agency’s Interdisciplinary National Science Project Incorporating Research and Education Experience, or INSPIRE.
NASA Extends International Space Station Contract →
NASA has awarded a five-year, $1.24 billion contract extension to The Boeing Co. to continue engineering support of the International Space Station through Sept. 30, 2015.
This Planet Smells Funny →
Giant planet GJ 436b in the constellation Leo is missing something—and that something is swamp gas. To the surprise of astronomers who have been studying the Neptune-sized planet using NASA’s…
NASA Offers Satellite Interviews Inside New Space... →
NASA is offering live satellite interviews on Thursday, Sept. 16, from inside the next component of the International Space Station.
NASA Invites Students To A Weightless Challenge →
NASA is hosting two national science competitions that challenge student teams to develop and prepare a microgravity experiment. Proposals are due Nov. 1.
NASA TV To Provide Coverage Of Next Soyuz Landing,... →
NASA TV To Provide Coverage Of Next Soyuz Landing, Launch
Preparing for the Unknown →
NASA’s Desert RATS, or Research and Technology Studies, team made its 13th trip to the desert for another round of analog testing. The Desert RATS tests offer a chance for a NASA-led team of…
09-13-2010 →
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NASA Announces Strategic Sustainability And... →
NASA has released its Strategic Sustainability and Performance Plan (SSPP) as part of a government-wide effort to achieve goals without compromising the planet’s resources.
Ushering in the Future →
Dr. Werhner von Braun, Marshall Space Flight Center’s first director, points out a detail regarding the first stage of the Saturn rocket to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. President Eisenhower was at…
09-09-2010 →
NASA Selects Winning Team In Balloonsat... →
NASA has selected the winner of the national Balloonsat High Altitude Flight Competition.
NASA's Shuttle Discovery To Make Its Final Trip To... →
Journalists are invited to cover space shuttle Discovery’s last move from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to Launch Pad 39A on Sept. 20 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Six astronauts…
Amateur Astronomers Are First To Detect Objects... →
Amateur astronomers using backyard telescopes were the first to detect two small objects that burned up in Jupiter’s atmosphere on June 3 and Aug. 20.
NASA Data Shed New Light About Water and Volcanoes... →
Data from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander suggest liquid water has interacted with the Martian surface throughout the planet’s history and into modern times.
NASA Awards Grants For High School Science... →
NASA will award about $4 million in grants to public school districts, state-based education leadership, and not-for-profit education organizations to support academic excellence in STEM education.
On the Move →
As if surrounded by a celestial halo, space shuttle Discovery made its way towards the expansive confines of NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building following a move from its processing…
NASA Hosts Green Aviation Summit; Bolden... →
NASA has a “critical responsibility” to the flying public to develop environmentally responsible solutions to the nation’s most pressing aviation problems, Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. said…
NASA Wants To Share Great Ideas →
NASA is seeking information from potential partners who could provide no-cost brokerage services for intellectual property transactions.
NASA Opens Space Station For Biological Research... →
NASA opens Space Station for biological research from NIH grants that take advantage of the unique microgravity environment aboard Station to explore fundamental questions about important health…