NASA Advisory Council: Select a Human Exploration Destination ASAP
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 27, 2012
The NASA Advisory Council (NAC) – a body that provides the NASA Administrator with counsel and advice on programs and issues of importance to the Agency – has insisted a human exploration plan, or at least a destination, should be selected as soon as possible. The call comes just weeks ahead of the greatly anticipated [...]
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NASA Quiet Sonic Boom Research Effort Ends With a Whisper
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 23, 2012
NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center recently completed NASA’s latest quiet sonic boom research study at Edwards Air Force Base. The Waveforms and Sonic boom Perception and Response, or WSPR, project gathered data from a select group of more than 100 volunteer Edwards Air Force Base residents on their individual attitudes toward sonic booms produced by [...]
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NASA spacecraft begins trek out of our solar system
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 18, 2012
A NASA spacecraft is speeding out and away from our solar system and will make the first leap into interstellar space at any moment according to scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.Voyager 1′s exit will begin giving astrophysicists new data accounts of life outside the solar system.The planetary satellite was launched nearly 34 [...]
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NASA ISS On-Orbit position 26 February 2012
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 12, 2012
All ISS system go on to function supposedly, apart from those noted before or below. Sunday – Crew off duty. Ahead: Week 14 of increase 30 (six-person crew).CDR Burbank, FE-5 Kuipers & FE-6 Pettit each finished one more post-sleep session of the Reaction Self Test (Psychomotor Vigilance Self Test on the ISS) procedure, the 31st [...]
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NASA Finds Sea Ice Driving Arctic Air Pollutants
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 6, 2012
Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying the chemical release of bromine into the atmosphere, resulting in ground-level ozone depletion and the deposit of toxic mercury in the Arctic, according to a new NASA-led study. The connection between changes in the Arctic Ocean’s ice cover and bromine chemical processes [...]
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NASA tries to settle fight over its artifacts
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 3, 2012
WASHINGTON — Hoping to settle a feud inside the NASA family, NASA Chief Charlie Bolden met Monday with several Apollo astronauts upset with how the agency recently has blocked them from selling space artifacts from their personal collections. While no final agreement was reached, NASA officials said talks were moving in the right direction. “These [...]
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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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NASA Helps Kick Off 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 9, 2012
An international robotics competition aimed at developing a new generation of technology leaders kicks off at 10:30 a.m. EST Saturday, Jan. 7. NASA, the largest sponsor of the FIRST Robotics Competition, and its centers across the nation will join local technology firms to launch the event. The main competition kickoff will take place at Southern [...]
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