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GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three employees of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. were recipients of the 2010 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science. The award was bestowed upon Matt Greenhouse, Randy Kimble and Alexander Moiseev for outstanding work in sciences at NASA Goddard. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO)(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) William R. Oegerle, Director of the Astrophysics Science...

Third Science with the Hubble Space Telescope conference opens in Italy Astronomers from around the world are gathering for the third Science with the Hubble Space Telescope conference (HST3), which takes place in Venice from 11"“14 October. They will be celebrating 20 years of cutting-edge science with the world's most famous orbiting observatory, and looking forward to new research opportunities in the years to come.The previous Science with the Hubble Space Telescope conference took...

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Two of the most influential men in science history shared the view that a powerful reasoning God Created the universe. The Hubble telescope now confirms their views by the discoveries it has made over the past two decades while photographing an Awe-Inspiring Drama of Creation as it reveals an incomprehensible power. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100928/FL72150 ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100928/FL72150 ) "That deep...

TOLEDO, Ohio, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's traveling museum exhibition, New Views of the Universe, featuring the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, opens at Imagination Station museum in Toledo this Friday, Sept. 24. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The exhibit will be open to the public for several months from September 24, 2010 to January 2, 2011. Showcasing dazzling...

Enjoying a frozen treat on a hot summer day can leave a sticky mess as it melts in the Sun and deforms. In the cold vacuum of space, there is no edible ice cream, but there is radiation from massive stars that is carving away at cold molecular clouds, creating bizarre, fantasy-like structures. These one-light-year-tall pillars of cold hydrogen and dust, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, are located in the Carina Nebula.This image is a composite of Hubble observations taken of the Carina...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will present a variety of program briefings for members of the media at the Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference & Technology Exposition 2010 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington, D.C., Sept. 13-15. The company will highlight a number of product developments and capabilities that meet the needs of the U.S. Air Force and its members serving around the world....

A billowing cloud of hydrogen in the Triangulum galaxy (Messier 33), about 2.7 million light-years away from Earth, glows with the energy released by hundreds of young, bright stars. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image provides the sharpest view of NGC 604 so far obtained.Some 1500 light-years across, this is one of the largest, brightest concentrations of ionized hydrogen (H II) in our local group of galaxies, and is a major center of star formation.The gas in NGC 604, around nine...

GREENVILLE, S.C., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- CAV International Inc., a US Government outsourcing contractor with expertise in airfield services & logistics, announces that the United States Navy has awarded CAV International a new multi-year contract for Air Terminal and Ground Handling Services at Naval Air Station-Rota, Spain. The annual contract value is $10,505,433, but total value assuming all Options are exercised in out-years will be $57,469,122. CAV (pronounced as in "cavalry")...

MARIETTA, Ga., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has signed a contract with the Sultanate of Oman for two additional C-130J Super Hercules. Oman ordered its first C-130J in July 2009, for delivery in 2012. The two additional aircraft will be delivered in late 2013 and early 2014. The first aircraft is of the C130J-30 "long" configuration and the new order is for two C-130J "short" configuration aircraft. "The C-130J is ideally suited to the operating conditions...

FARNBOROUGH, England, July 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) recently completed assembly of its 200th C-130J Super Hercules. The aircraft is the second HC130J for the U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command and is a clear demonstration of the success and continued growth of the C-130J program, which produces the world's most advanced airlifter. During media briefings at this year's Farnborough International Airshow, Lockheed Martin representatives discussed this and the...