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WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has inducted 86 top-performing interns into the 2013 NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community, a vital component of the agency's ongoing effort to engage undergraduate and graduate students in science, engineering, mathematics and technology (STEM) research and interactive opportunities. This fifth group of student ambassadors, Cohort V, includes interns from 32 states and 70 different universities. (Logo:...

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) has released its 2012 annual report. This report is based on the panel's 2012 fact-finding and quarterly public meetings; center visits and meetings; direct observations of NASA operations and decision-making; discussions with NASA management, employees, and contractors; and the panel members' past experiences. The report highlights issues that could have an impact on safety. Congress established the panel in 1968 after the Apollo 1 fire to...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) has released its 2012 annual report. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) This report is based on the panel's 2012 fact-finding and quarterly public meetings; center visits and meetings; direct observations of NASA operations and decision-making; discussions with NASA management, employees, and contractors; and the panel members' past experiences. The...

NASA scientists will present new findings on a wide range of astrophysics topics next week at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The meeting takes place Jan. 6-10 at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd, in Long Beach, Calif. Media registration for the event is open. None of the briefings will be carried on NASA Television, but all will be web-streamed on AAS's website for registered journalists. NASA's media briefings during...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a status update news conference to discuss the progress of the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) at 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 9. The briefing from Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) Through CCP, NASA is facilitating the development of U.S. commercial crew space...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) Project is moving forward with its research efforts to "green" the skies. ERA is developing aircraft concepts and technologies to help reduce the impact of aviation on the environment during the next 30 years. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Fay Collier, ERA project manager based at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., will unveil the...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers at NASA are evaluating tiles made of space trash to determine whether they can be used as radiation shielding during a deep-space mission. The tiles were produced at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, where engineers developed and built a compactor that melts trash but doesn't incinerate it. Once the space trash is compacted, the garbage can become 8-inch diameter tiles about half an inch thick, NASA says. The...

NASA has awarded the Kennedy Space Center Institutional Support Services III, or KISS III, contract to Wichita Tribal Enterprises, LLC of Tulsa, Okla. KISS III begins Feb. 1. The contract has a seven-month base period and options to extend the work through Sept. 30, 2016. If all options are exercised, the maximum potential value for the three-year, seven-month indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity contract is $48 million. Wichita Tribal Enterprises will provide institutional support...

NASA has selected Sierra Lobo Inc. of Fremont, Ohio, to perform engineering fabrication services at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. This cost-plus-award-fee contract with indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity delivery orders has a potential value of $98.15 million, if NASA exercises the one two-year option. The three-year base period of the contract begins Feb. 1, 2013. The fabrication services range from providing rapid turnaround of simple parts and modifications to...

HOUSTON, Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Arizonans can get a sense of what spaceflight is like starting today, as NASA's Destination Station exhibit opens at the Arizona Museum of Natural History in Mesa. The interactive exhibit reveals the inside of America's orbiting laboratory while educating visitors about the vast array of science and research being done in low-Earth orbit. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) "This exhibit is a magnificent way...