September 2011
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NASA Spacecraft Revealing More Details About... →
NASA Spacecraft Revealing More Details About Planet Mercury
09-29-2011 →
NASA Selects Science Investigations For Concept... →
NASA has selected 11 science proposals for evaluation as potential future science missions. The proposals outline prospective missions to study the Earth’s atmosphere, the sun, the Milky Way galaxy,…
NASA's J-2X Engine →
This image is from a 2008 cold flow test campaign conducted at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center for the J-2X engine program. NASA continues to test the J-2X engine and conducted a 40-second test…
150 Of NASA's Twitter Followers Will Be Invited To... →
NASA will host a two-day launch Tweetup for 150 of its Twitter followers on Nov. 23 and 25 at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Pacman Nebula →
High-mass stars are important because they are responsible for much of the energy pumped into our galaxy over its lifetime. Unfortunately, these stars are poorly understood because they are often…
Asteroid Caught Marching Across Tadpole Nebula →
This infrared image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole Nebula, a star-forming hub in the Auriga constellation about 12,000 light-years from Earth. As WISE…
09-27-2011 →
NASA Spacecraft Reveals New Details Of Planet... →
NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 29, to discuss new data and images from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.
NASA To Host News Conference On Asteroid Search... →
NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT on Thurs., Sept. 29, to reveal near-Earth asteroid findings and implications for future research. The briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters…
Electrical Circuit Between Saturn and Enceladus →
This artist’s concept shows a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn’s north pole that occurs at the “footprint” of the magnetic connection between Saturn and its moon Enceladus. The…
09-26-2011 →
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NASA's UARS Re-Enters Earth's Atmosphere →
The precise re-entry time and location of debris impacts have not been determined.
Earth's Moon →
Photographed by the Expedition 28 crew aboard the International Space Station, this image shows the moon, the Earth’s only natural satellite, at center with the limb of Earth near the bottom…
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Earth’s Moon Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0500
Photographed by the Expedition 28 crew aboard the International Space Station, this image shows the moon, the Earth’s only natural satellite, at center with the...
New Supernova Remnant Lights Up →
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are witnessing the unprecedented transition of a supernova to a supernova remnant, where light from an exploding star in a neighboring galaxy, the Large…
09-11-2011 →
NASA Launches Mission To Study Moon From Crust To... →
GRAIL Heads to the Moon →
Fire and smoke light up a blue sky as a United Launch Alliance Delta II Heavy rocket propels NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission into space. Liftoff from Space Launch…
09-10-2011 →
NASA, ATK Announce New Commercial Crew Agreement →
NASA and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) managers will announce an agreement that could accelerate the availability of U.S. commercial crew transportation capabilities at 3 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 13….
09-09-2011 →
Update: NASA Provides Media Interviews For Space... →
NASA has canceled the previously scheduled news conference on Friday, Sept. 9, about the award of the organization that will manage the portion of the International Space Station operated as a U.S….
GRAIL on the Pad →
NASA’s GRAIL twin spacecraft await launch atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/United Launch Alliance, Thom Baur
09-07-2011 →
Preparing GRAIL for Launch →
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 17B in Florida, these spacecraft technicians may be the last persons to glimpse NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or…
09-06-2011 →
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NASA Announces Media Teleconference on New Apollo... →
NASA will host a media teleconference at noon on Tuesday, Sept. 6, to reveal new images of three Apollo landing sites taken from the agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO.
NASA Gives Public New Internet Tool To Explore The... →
NASA Gives Public New Internet Tool To Explore The Solar System
09-02-2011 →
NASA Hosting First West Coast Launch Tweetup for... →
NASA will invite 25 of its U.S. Twitter followers to a Tweetup expected to culminate in the launch of the first of a new generation of Earth-observing satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB)…
NASA Accepting Applications For Aeronautics... →
NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications from graduate and undergraduate students for the 2012 academic year. The application deadline is Jan. 15, 2012.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on Its... →
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take this picture showing a light-toned rock, nicknamed Tisdale 2, on its 2,690th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on…
09-01-2011 →
NASA Hosts Media Teleconference on Solar Flare... →
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 7, to discuss new observations about solar flares that can impact communication and navigation systems.
NASA Langley's Bell UH-1H Huey Helicopter Returns →
NASA Langley’s Bell UH-1H Huey helicopter returned to the Center Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, after a five-year long stint supporting space shuttle operations at Kennedy Space Center. The KSC work added…
08-31-2011 →