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Tech products can turn uncool when they become too popular
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
In the tech world, coolness takes more than just good looks. Technology users must consider a product attractive, original and edgy before they label those prod...
NASA EDGE Showcases Three Technology Demonstration Missions
Feb 10, 2014 (SPX)
Three NASA Technology Demonstration Missions -- the Deep Space Atomic Clock or DSAC project, the Solar Sail Demonstrator or SSD and the Low-Density Supersonic D...
NASA Technology to Help Develop Noninvasive Medical Treatments
Feb 10, 2014 (SPX)
NASA has signed two patent license agreements with GRoK Technologies LLC of Houston to help develop novel biotechnology approaches that could have multiple appl...
NASA Evolves Student Rocketry Challenge, Enhances Ties to Space Launch System
Feb 10, 2014 (SPX)
Student teams from 26 colleges and universities in 16 states and Puerto Rico will design and launch innovative rockets and payloads as part of the 2013-2014 NAS...
New scientific field looks at the big picture
Feb 05, 2014 (SPX)
Big data is changing the field of ecology. The shift is dramatic enough to warrant the creation of an entirely new field: macrosystems ecology. "Ecologists can ...
Future interplanetary spacecraft to be equipped with 'plantations'
Feb 03, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
In 2015 astronauts will grow rice, tomatoes and sweet pepper on board of the international space station in the framework of the experiment to create a biologic...
Russian Space Farmers Harvest Wheat, Peas and Greens
Jan 31, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
A variety of crops have been successfully harvested on board the International Space Station and verified as safe to eat, a Russian scientist said Wednesday. "T...
FAA Grants Waypoint 2 Space Safety Approval Of Training Programs
Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)
Waypoint 2 Space has announced it has received FAA safety approval for its highly anticipated training services that will begin late spring of 2014. The FAA saf...
NASA Launches Third Generation Communications Satellite
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite L (TDRS-L), the 12th spacecraft in the agency's TDRS Project, is safely in orbit after launching at 9:33 p.m. EST Thurs...
NASA launches communications satellite
Jan 24, 2014 (AFP)
NASA on Thursday launched a new satellite to boost its growing communications network between Earth and the International Space Station, allowing for nearly uni...
Lawrence Livermore 'space cops' to help control traffic in space
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists are using mini-satellites that work as "space cops" to help control traffic in space. The scientists...
At Your Service: Orion Service Module Complete
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
The second of three major parts of the spacecraft that will launch into orbit on Orion's first mission this fall is complete. Work has been progressing steadily...
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to be Renamed for Neil Armstrong
Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)
President Barack Obama has signed HR 667, the congressional resolution that redesignates NASA's Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong F...
New patent mapping system helps find innovation pathways
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
What's likely to be the "next big thing?" What might be the most fertile areas for innovation? Where should countries and companies invest their limited researc...
NASA Tests Orion Spacecraft Parachute Jettison over Arizona
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
Engineers testing the parachute system for NASA's Orion spacecraft increased the complexity of their tests Thursday, Jan. 16, adding the jettison of hardware de...
South African set to be first black 'Afronaut'
Jan 21, 2014 (AFP)
No one in Mandla Maseko's family has ever stepped outside South Africa, but the young township DJ is set to rocket into space next year. From the dusty district...
Working Together to Build Tomorrow's STEM Workforce
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
On January 13, NASA and the U.S. Department of Education marked the successful completion of a pilot program designed to engage more students in science, techno...
US Congress Rejects White House Cuts to Planetary Exploration
Jan 19, 2014 (SPX)
The FY2014 Omnibus spending bill, now before the U.S. Congress, once again rejects cuts to NASA's Planetary Science Division that were sought by the White House...
SpaceShip Two Into Serious Flight Testing
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
Virgin Galactic's adventure into space tourism moves closer to operational flight status. Just last week the second stage of its two-stage suborbital vehicle, S...
Commercial Spaceflight Federation Applauds Passage of Bill Providing Funding for Commercial Programs
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation thanks the Members of the House of Representatives for the passage of H.R. 3547. The bill provides critical funding for NA...
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