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NASA Seeks Undergrads to Defy Gravity for Science and Engineering
NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to test an experiment in weightless science as part of the agency's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program.
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NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs In Space For First Time
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. Buckyballs are soccer-ball-shaped molecules that were first observed in a laboratory 25 years ago.
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NASA'S Hubble Shows Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky Way
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a hypervelocity star – a rare phenomenon moving three times faster than our sun.
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NASA Astronauts -- Including Space Station Crew Member From Maryland -- Available For Interviews In Washington
NASA Headquarters in Washington will welcome space shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 astronauts and International Space Station Expedition 22 and 23 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer for a visit Monday, July 26, through Thursday, July 29.
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NASA Awards Multi-Disciplinary Engineering And Technology Services II Contract
NASA Awards Multi-Disciplinary Engineering And Technology Services II Contract
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First Map Of Global Forest Heights Created From NASA Data
Scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map of the height of the world's forests by combining data from three NASA satellites. The map will help scientists build an inventory of how much carbon the world's forests store and how fast that carbon cycles through ecosystems and back into the atmosphere.
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ISS Expedition 24 Crew to Talk with Middle School Students in Georgia
Students from the Conyers Middle School in Conyers, Ga., are expecting a very long-distance phone call Wednesday from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA's Nebula Cloud Computing Technology To Play Key Role In New Open Source Initiative
The core technology developed for NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly-launched open source cloud computing initiative.
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NASA's WISE Mission Ready to Complete Extensive Sky Survey
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will complete its first survey of the entire sky on July 17.
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Teachers Get Hands-On Experience Through New NASA Internship
Select teachers will spend part of their summer learning about virtual technology in an effort to get their students excited about science, technology, engineering and math.
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MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals New Information About Mercury
The first spacecraft designed by NASA to orbit Mercury is giving scientists a new perspective on the planet's atmosphere and evolution.
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NASA Television Debuts Full-Time High Definition Channel
On Monday, July 19, NASA Television will launch a full-time High Definition (HD) channel that media, cable and satellite service providers can access.
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NASA Finds Super Hot Planet With Unique Comet-Like Tail
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of a baked object that could be called a "cometary planet." The gas giant planet, named HD 209458b, is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space.
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NASA Awards Rapid Response Space Works Contract
Serving as a contracting agent for the Department of Defense’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office, NASA has selected Millennium Engineering and Integration Co., of Arlington, Va., to receive a contract for Rapid Response Space Works (RRSW).
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NASA Supporting Gulf Oil Spill Wildlife Recovery
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is helping with the unprecedented effort to save wildlife from the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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NASA Sets Briefing to Preview Space Station Spacewalk
NASA officials will discuss an upcoming International Space Station spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts during a news briefing at 2 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, July 21.
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NASA Selects Student Experiments For International Space Station
NASA has selected nine experiments, designed by students at seven schools, for astronauts to perform on the International Space Station this summer. NASA selected the proposals from among 132 received for the new Kids in Micro-g! Program.
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NASA Announces Three New Centennial Challenges
NASA announced three new Centennial Challenges Tuesday, with an overall prize purse of $5 million. NASA's Centennial Challenges are prize competitions for technological achievements by independent teams who work without government funding.
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NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter
NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that provide viewers with a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet.
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NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun's inner workings in unprecedented detail. The launch aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:23 a.m. EST.
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