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Staying alive: Rescue mission for disco-era satellite
May 22, 2014 (AFP)
It's plunging back through space, but also back through time, and a band of veteran scientists are determined to save it: a lonely satellite from the age of dis...
Sea level rise forces US space agency to retreat
May 20, 2014 (AFP)
Sea level rise is threatening the majority of NASA's launch pads and multi-billion dollar complexes famous for training astronauts and launching historic missio...
A light-speed voyage to the distant future
May 16, 2014 (ESA)
An enthusiastic group of schoolchildren sent a greeting to the future today, beaming a radio signal into space via an ESA tracking station in Spain. In January,...
More Plant Science as Expedition 39 Trio Trains for Departure
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
More botany experiments were being worked Thursday as scientists learn how to sustain future crews on long-term space missions. Meanwhile, three Expedition 39 c...
'Convergent' Research Solves Problems that Cross Disciplinary Boundaries
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
Convergent research - which crosses disciplinary boundaries, integrating tools and knowledge from the life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, and other f...
Pioneering Test Pilot Bill Dana Dies at Age 83
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
Bill Dana was an aeronautical engineer, a test pilot. He was an astronaut. His career at the NASA High-Speed Flight Station (now Armstrong Flight Research Cente...
Pioneering Mercury Astronauts Launched America's Future
May 07, 2014 (SPX)
From ancient astronomers to fantasy authors to modern-day scientists, visionaries dreamed for centuries about travel beyond Earth into outer space. On a spring ...
NASA's Next Prototype Spacesuit has a Brand New Look, and it's All Thanks to You
May 05, 2014 (SPX)
With 233,431 votes, the "Technology" option has won NASA's Z-2 Spacesuit design challenge with just over 63% of the total vote. This design now will be incorpor...
NASA Invests in Hundreds of US Small Businesses to Enable Future Missions
May 05, 2014 (SPX)
Recognizing the critical role of American small businesses and research institutions play as innovation engines for new space technologies that will enable futu...
Boeing Showcases Future Commercial Spacecraft Interior
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing has unveiled a new commercial interior of its Crew Space Transportation (CST-100) next-generation manned space capsule, showing how people other than NAS...
Orion Undergoes Simulation Of Intense Launch Vibrations
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin and NASA engineers have verified that the Orion spacecraft successfully passed an important environmental test called Multi-Point Random Vibrati...
Orion Feels the Vibe During Tests at Kennedy Space Center
Apr 29, 2014 (SPX)
Testing designed to simulate the vibrations NASA's Orion will experience during its first trip to space successfully wrapped up inside the Operations and Checko...
Orion Exploration Design Challenge Winner Announced
Apr 29, 2014 (SPX)
After a year-long competition among the nation's high schools, evaluators from NASA, Lockheed Martin, and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) have selecte...
NASA Partners with LittleBits Electronics on STEM Activitie
Apr 29, 2014 (SPX)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Innovative Partnerships Office has entered into a Space Act Agreement with littleBits Electronics, Inc., New York, N.Y., to c...
China village gunning for tourists
Apr 28, 2014 (AFP)
A rifle shot tears the air of a mountain hamlet -- met not with terror but cries of delight in China's only remaining village where authorities encourage gun ow...
NASA Selects Commercial Crew Program Manager
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
NASA has selected Kathy Lueders as program manager for the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP). Lueders, who has served as acting program manager since Octob...
NASA Names Six New Members to Advisory Council
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has announced the appointment of six new members to the NASA Advisory Council (NAC). The group advises NASA's senior leadershi...
NASA Innovative Advanced Concept Program Seeks Phase II Proposals
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program is seeking proposals for technologies that could be used on future exploration missions. The new proposals wi...
Go Big or Go Home - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Doing Both, and More
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
The space shuttle orbiter mock-up has been a lonesome bird at Space Center Houston, Johnson Space Center's official visitor center, waiting for its permanent pi...
NASA Astronauts Will Breathe Easier With New Oxygen Recovery Systems
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
For NASA's long-duration human spaceflight missions, travelers will need to recycle as much breathable oxygen in their spacecraft environments, as possible. To ...
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