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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says it has awarded $6.4 million in U.S. grants to enhance learning through its Earth science resources. The grants were awarded to institutions of higher education and not-for-profit education organizations, with each grant expected to leverage NASA's contributions in climate science. The selected grant winners proposed ways to enhance students' academic experiences or improve educators' abilities to engage their students by providing...
James Webb garnered tremendous praise for his management acumen as NASA's administrator during the race to space and the moon. But along with setting a course for a clearly left-brained organization focused on engineering and inventing technology, Webb also gave NASA room for the right-brain to breathe a bit.In 1962, Webb sent a two-paragraph memo that suggested involving artists to help tell the agency's story of adventure.That was all James Dean needed to start a program that would produce...
The U.S. space agency has awarded $11.5 million in grants to public school districts and not-for-profit education organizations. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the nationwide program is designed to engage students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education, enhance secondary students' academic experiences and improve educators' abilities to engage and stimulate their students. Nine proposals were selected for funding to school districts and...
Two large wholesale credit unions with combined assets of $57 billion have been seized by U.S. financial regulators, officials said. The National Credit Union Administration said Friday it had taken over the U.S. Central Federal Credit Union in Lenexa, Kan., and Western Corporate Federal Credit Union in San Dimas, Calif., CNN/Money reported. The administration said in a statement that the two credit unions were placed under conservatorship to stabilize the corporate credit union system and...
HAMPTON, Va., March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is working on the building blocks to return humans to the Moon by 2020, then send them onto Mars. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) It's part of the national Vision for Space Exploration established five years ago. Just what is America's plan and is it the right one? Four international experts will address those questions and others in a special Moon-Mars Forum, March 17, from 7-9 p.m. at the Virginia...
HAMPTON, Va., March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fifteen teams have made it to the finals of a NASA and National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) sponsored competition that challenged university students to think about the conditions astronauts will face when we return to the moon, then design projects that could become part of real lunar exploration. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The undergraduate and graduate engineering students won the right to compete...
HOUSTON, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Innovation Partnerships Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center has announced the addition of three separate $20,000 awards to one already granted, bringing the total to $80,000, to be presented as part of the 2009 Rice University Business Plan Competition. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The three new prizes will be awarded for the best business plans representing an engineering technology that has applications...
WASHINGTON, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and the United States Air Force have designated three university and industry partners in California, Texas and Virginia as national hypersonic science centers. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The new centers will advance research in air-breathing propulsion, materials and structures, and boundary layer control for aircraft that can travel at Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, and faster. NASA's...
Navy Federal Applauds NCUA Course Change on Corporate Credit Union Bailout VIENNA, Va., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Navy Federal Credit Union welcomed the National Credit Union Administration's (NCUA) decision to seek alternatives to its $4.7 billion bailout of corporate credit unions. In response to widespread industry criticism of the plan, NCUA committed to actively pursuing a new solution to the corporate credit union troubles in conjunction with the U.S. Treasury. This change...
Internet Claims Having No Effect on Reducing Backlog WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new GAO report confirms what the American Federation of Government Employees has been saying all along - that the Social Security Administration won't be able to handle the influx of baby boomer claims unless it receives full funding. The GAO report says that staffing and funding constraints are currently having adverse effects on field office services and it is not clear how the agency's...
