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HAMPTON, Va., April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Humans may step on the interstellar gas pedal some day and "Boom!" goes the engine. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) On Tuesday, April 2, at NASA's Langley Research Center, theoretical physicist Friedwardt Winterberg will present, "To Mars in Weeks by Thermonuclear Micro-Bomb Propulsion," at 2 p.m. in the Reid Conference Center here. Winterberg will be available to answer questions from the media...

HAMPTON, Va., Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, Feb. 5, at NASA's Langley Research Center here, medical physicist Cornel Butuceanu will present, "Proton Radiotherapy Systems and Clinical Practice," at 2 p.m. in the Reid Conference Center. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) A former postdoctoral fellow at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Butuceanu joined the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute (HUPTI) in 2009...

HAMPTON, Va., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This coming Tuesday, Jan. 8, at NASA's Langley Research Center, Harvard University Internet researcher David Weinberger will present, "Too Big To Know," at 2 p.m. in the Reid Conference Center. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and a senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Weinberger's talk will...

HAMPTON, Va., Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A materials research scientist who works at NASA's Langley Research Center has been named 2013 Robert A. Mitcheltree Young Engineer of the Year - an award presented by the Hampton Roads Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Dr. Hyun Jung Kim, who conducts her research in the Advanced Materials and Processing Branch at NASA Langley,...

HAMPTON, Va., Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Is it movie magic or technology that more than meets the eye? (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Chuck Hoberman will speak about his pioneering work in the field of transformable design when he presents, "Transformable: Building Structures That Change Themselves," on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 2 p.m. in the Reid Conference Center here at NASA's Langley Research Center. Hoberman, the founder of Hoberman...

HAMPTON, Va., Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA today announced the award of two contracts to provide design and fabrication of aerospace model systems and developmental test hardware to support spaceflight, aeronautics, flight and ground-based tests conducted at the Langley Research Center here, and at other NASA centers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Advanced Technologies, Inc., based in Newport News, Va., and Micro Craft, Inc., based in...

HAMPTON, Va., Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The president and executive director of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing will present, "CCAM: A Game Changing Advanced Manufacturing Research Model," on Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. in the Reid Conference Center here at NASA's Langley Research Center. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The head of CCAM, David Lohr, will discuss how the research-based collaboration between the...

Polar Express warehouse expansion offers 300,000 cubic feet of capacity for frozen, chilled and dry product storage and handling Portland, Oregon (PRWEB) October 23, 2012 Polar Express Transportation’s newly expanded temperature-controlled facility opens October 29th in Langley, BC, offering additional warehousing and regularly scheduled delivery services into and throughout Canada as well as the US. Due to exponential growth in their transportation services since joining up with KOOL...

HAMPTON, Va., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Visitors to NASA Langley Research Center's open house on Saturday, Sept. 22, will have a chance to explore tomorrow, not only in the facility's research labs, but with NASA's Journey to Tomorrow trailer. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) The traveling exhibit, coming from NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland for the 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. event, will offer participants a chance to experience a...

HAMPTON, Va., Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Meet an astronaut and watch a space capsule splash-tested. Check out more than a dozen NASA labs, and see where astronauts simulated landing on the moon. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) All that and more is on the agenda for NASA Langley Research Center's public open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22. Visitors will see the latest Langley science and technology, talk with researchers...