Goddard Director Leaving for Ball Aerospace
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 1, 2012
Robert Strain will leave as director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., to turn out to be chief operating officer of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Strain’s last day at Goddard will be March 4, NASA spokesman Mark Hess said. damage, who has detained the top post at Goddard for more than [...]
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Gingrich call for moon foundation, space contest
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 29, 2012
“We want Americans to think bravely about the future,” Gingrich said throughout a campaign rally in Florida, where he outlines a space policy plan that would cut NASA’s system of government and get bigger on private-sector space programs champion by President Barack Obama.”By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent [...]
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NASA’s Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats From Saturn
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 27, 2012
No team of reindeer, but radio signals flying clear across the solar system from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have delivered a holiday package of glorious images. The pictures, from Cassini’s imaging team, show Saturn’s largest, most colorful ornament, Titan, and other icy baubles in orbit around this splendid planet. The release includes images of satellite conjunctions [...]
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NASA’S J-2X locomotive kick Off 2012 With Power pack test
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 26, 2012
A innovative sequence of tests on the locomotive that will help take humans to bottomless space will begin next week at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi. The test on the J-2X engine bring NASA one pace closer to the first human-rated liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen rocket train to be urbanized in 40 [...]
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The ‘Un-Flyable’ Space Shuttle
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 25, 2012
The first time NASA engineer George Ware saw a model for the space shuttle, four decades ago, it had a straight wing and tail like a fighter airplane. It had elevators, a rudder and an engine. It was un-flyable. “It was their idea that it was going to enter the atmosphere at a 60-degree angle,” [...]
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Innovative journey 30 team Members open to Station
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 21, 2012
The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft transport three new Expedition 30 journey engineers’ launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 30 Flight Engineers Don Pettit, Oleg Kononenko and Andre Kuipers launched at 8:16 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 21 (7:16 p.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three new global Space Station crew [...]
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From the Outreach Chair
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 19, 2012
by David Letcher, Outreach Chair Greetings everyone. I hope your holiday season is going well. Have you noticed the days are getting longer? Our next star party will be held on Friday, March 16, 2012 at the Hopewell Elementary Science Fair. This fair starts at 5 pm and ends at 8 pm. If you can [...]
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NASA To Host Media Teleconference On Probes’ Moon Orbit Insertion
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 18, 2012
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST on Wednesday, Dec. 28, to preview twin spacecraft being placed in orbit around the moon on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. NASA’s twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) probes were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sept. 10, [...]
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Fifty-Seven Student Rocket Teams to Take NASA Launch Challenge
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 14, 2012
More than 500 students from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in 29 states will show their rocketeering prowess in the 2011-12 NASA Student Launch Projects flight challenge. The teams will build and test large-scale rockets of their own design in April 2012. NASA created the twin Student Launch Projects to spark students’ imaginations, [...]
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NASA Propulsion Experiment Provides Data for More Efficient Jet Engines
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 12, 2012
Aeronautics researchers at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center recently completed flight tests of a unique experimental jet engine inlet design in the Channeled Center-body Inlet Experiment, or CCIE. The experimental inlet was checked out on NASA Dryden’s F-15B aeronautics research test bed aircraft, which continues to be an innovative and cost-effective tool for flight test [...]
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