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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online NASA is reportedly planning to capture a small asteroid with a robotic spacecraft, and then move the space rock closer to Earth so that astronauts could travel there, analyze it and return home with samples. Those plans were announced Friday by US Senator Bill Nelson, the chairman of the Senate Science and Space Subcommittee. The Florida senator said that Present Barack Obama is requesting that approximately $100 million be added...

NASA is seeking small spacecraft technology project proposals from U.S. colleges and universities that would like to collaborate with agency researchers. Small spacecraft, or smallsats, represent a growing field of space research and operations in which universities often have led the way in technology development. Smallsats, some of which are as small as a four-inch cube, are not expected to replace conventional spacecraft, but sometimes can provide an alternative to larger, more costly...

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is seeking small spacecraft technology project proposals from U.S. colleges and universities that would like to collaborate with agency researchers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Small spacecraft, or smallsats, represent a growing field of space research and operations in which universities often have led the way in technology development. Smallsats, some of which are as small as a four-inch...

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is inviting eligible educational institutions, museums and other organizations to screen and request historical space artifacts. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The artifacts represent significant human spaceflight technologies, processes and the accomplishments of NASA's many programs. NASA and the General Services Administration worked together to ensure broad access to space artifacts and to...

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is expanding its reach to the nation's growing Spanish-speaking population by holding its first-ever Google+ Hangout en Espanol from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, March 28. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) As part of Science4Girls, a NASA initiative to partner with libraries during National Women's History Month, participants will be able to learn more about the life and career of two...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A NASA contractor working at the space agency's Langley Research Center has been arrested by the FBI after being caught fleeing to China. Virginia Representative Frank Wolf said during a news conference that Bo Jiang, a Chinese national scientist, was arrested Sunday at Dulles International Airport. Wolf said Jiang was given access to information that would be of great interest to foreign spies. An FBI affidavit filed against...

CLEVELAND, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of McLean, Va., to provide safety, health, environmental and mission assurance services at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The contract begins April 1 with an 18-month base performance period. It includes options to extend the work through...

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Students in California will speak with Expedition 34 astronauts aboard the International Space Station Tuesday, March 5, at Monrovia High School near Los Angeles. News media representatives are invited to attend. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) The Earth-to-space call will take place from 1:25-1:45 p.m. EST (10:25-10:45 a.m. PST) and will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency's...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden toured Friday a cutting-edge facility at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center where high-tech manufacturing is creating parts for a next-generation rocket that will launch astronauts to the most distant destinations ever. NASA's National Center for Advanced Manufacturing Rapid Prototyping Facility is just one of the ways the agency is helping to revitalize America's manufacturing sector. According to a study by the Washington-area-based Tauri Group,...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden toured Friday a cutting-edge facility at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center where high-tech manufacturing is creating parts for a next-generation rocket that will launch astronauts to the most distant destinations ever. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) NASA's National Center for Advanced Manufacturing Rapid Prototyping Facility is just one of the ways...